Application of AI in the Field of Documentary Heritage: A Review of the Literature

Abstract

The advent of artificial intelligence has precipitated a transformation in the manner in which documentary heritage is researched, safeguarded and utilized. This paper presents a systematic review of the literature on the use of artificial intelligence technology in the core database of Web of Science for the protection of documentary heritage. It reviews all the studies on the use of artificial intelligence technology in the core database of Web of Science to participate in the preservation of documentary heritage, analyzes the changing trend of the number of published documents, uses VOSviewer to draw keyword co-graph, author contribution graph, citation analysis graph and coupling analysis graph, and analyzes author groups according to Lotka’s law and Price’s law. Finally, the paper summarizes the characteristics and shortcomings of artificial intelligence research in the field of document protection, and looks forward to the possible development direction of this field in the future.