{"id":173331,"date":"2026-05-13T19:19:02","date_gmt":"2026-05-14T01:19:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tecscience.tec.mx\/en\/?p=173331"},"modified":"2026-05-21T16:13:21","modified_gmt":"2026-05-21T22:13:21","slug":"digitizing-cultural-heritage","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tecscience.tec.mx\/en\/education-and-humanism\/digitizing-cultural-heritage\/","title":{"rendered":"From Museum to Server: The Challenge of Preserving History in the Digital Age"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>In 2018, part of humanity\u2019s history was lost in a fire that tore through Brazil\u2019s National Museum in Rio de Janeiro. The blaze destroyed nearly the entire anthropology and history collection, which housed close to 20 million items, including fossils, dinosaur bones, mummies, <a href=\"\/es\/humano-social\/que-es-cronica-x-nahuatl\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">documents<\/a>, and archaeological artifacts from Latin American cultures, as well as from the Egyptian, Greek, and Roman civilizations.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>For archaeologists, historians, and researchers, the fire underscored the vulnerability of <a href=\"\/en\/human-social\/institutional-repository\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">cultural heritage<\/a> and the urgent need to find new ways to preserve collections, such as <strong>technologies that enable their digitization<\/strong> and analysis, including artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>But the challenge goes far beyond simply \u201cscanning\u201d artifacts or documents. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/javierpereda\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Javier Pereda<\/a>, a research professor at the <a href=\"\/en\/tag\/school-of-humanities-and-education\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">School of Humanities and Education<\/a> at Tecnol\u00f3gico de Monterrey, explains that preserving cultural heritage digitally requires an entire infrastructure of servers, databases, and platforms capable of processing massive amounts of historical information.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cIt serves different purposes: the most immediate is preservation and protection \u2014 which, in fact, is an obligation \u2014 but having digital records also makes it possible to manage these collections in a more accessible and sustainable way,\u201d says Pereda, a web scientist specializing in digital historical heritage, a field focused on the infrastructures and digital ecosystems used for preservation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Digitization also allows documents to be reused and transformed into new knowledge. People can access materials as electronic archives and use them for research, a practice known as the \u201c<strong>reuse of digital objects<\/strong>.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><picture>\r\n                <source srcset=\"https:\/\/tecscience.tec.mx\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2026\/05\/digitizing-cultural-heritage-2-1024x682.webp\" type=\"image\/webp\">\r\n                <img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"682\" src=\"https:\/\/tecscience.tec.mx\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2026\/05\/digitizing-cultural-heritage-2-1024x682.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-173335\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tecscience.tec.mx\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2026\/05\/digitizing-cultural-heritage-2-1024x682.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/tecscience.tec.mx\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2026\/05\/digitizing-cultural-heritage-2-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/tecscience.tec.mx\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2026\/05\/digitizing-cultural-heritage-2-768x511.jpg 768w, https:\/\/tecscience.tec.mx\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2026\/05\/digitizing-cultural-heritage-2.jpg 1280w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/>\r\n            <\/picture><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Javier Pereda, a professor at the School of Humanities and Education and a web scientist specializing in digital historical heritage, is an international co-lead of the N-RICH initiative to preserve cultural archives in the United Kingdom. (Author: Car.argh &#8211; CC BY-SA)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">The Responsibility of Digitizing Knowledge<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>Through these databases, people can access historical materials that would otherwise be difficult to consult, such as Nahua manuscripts housed at The British Library in Europe. \u201cWhat happens if you\u2019re Mexican or belong to a Nahua community? You can\u2019t just travel to London to access your own knowledge. <strong>Institutions have certain obligations to digitize this content<\/strong> and make it accessible in ways that allow it to be reused.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Much of the heritage safeguarded by these organizations also remains out of public reach. \u201cWhat we see represents less than 1% of the collections. Most of it is kept in storage, either to protect the materials or because of their fragility. So we\u2019re caught between the risk of losing information and not even knowing what we actually have.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This kind of infrastructure aims to make public investment in digital heritage worthwhile by turning collections into systems that generate value for innovation projects and product development in the creative industries, including cultural studies, audiovisual productions, virtual tours, immersive museum experiences, and video games.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Cultural Heritage With a Return on Investment<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cIn the United Kingdom, economic studies are conducted to ensure that for every pound invested there is a fourfold return, and that can be measured through different forms of value, whether social, economic, or cultural,\u201d the researcher explains. \u201cIf you begin opening access to Indigenous knowledge about medicinal plants, that can help generate medicines, pharmaceuticals, and vitamins \u2014 and create an enormous economy around it.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It is precisely in the U.K. where one of the most ambitious projects in this field is taking shape: the creation of a <strong>large-scale digital infrastructure<\/strong>. Known as the National Research Infrastructure for Cultural Heritage (N-RICH), the initiative emerged from the Towards a National Collection program and is funded by the Arts and Humanities Research Council with an investment of \u00a32.2 million. Pereda serves as one of its international co-leads.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The infrastructure is designed to connect the collections of cultural institutions across the United Kingdom, making them easier to access, organize, and analyze using AI and computational tools. The Mexican researcher contributed to the design of infrastructure models, digitization strategies, and systems capable of integrating massive amounts of information.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>That data also includes <strong>intangible heritage<\/strong>, such as oral archives, archaeological sites, natural environments, and even digital models known as digital twins.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cThe goal is not simply to digitize collections, but to build the entire environment needed for computational analysis, including data integration across institutions, the use of AI to process massive volumes of information \u2014 including controlled automation \u2014 and the development of systems that allow these datasets to be connected, analyzed, and reused securely and at scale,\u201d he explains. \u201cThere\u2019s little value in having digitized collections <strong>if no one can actually use them in computational processes<\/strong>.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><picture>\r\n                <source srcset=\"https:\/\/tecscience.tec.mx\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2026\/05\/javier-pereda-quotes-1024x1024.webp\" type=\"image\/webp\">\r\n                <img decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/tecscience.tec.mx\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2026\/05\/javier-pereda-quotes-1024x1024.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-173336\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tecscience.tec.mx\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2026\/05\/javier-pereda-quotes-1024x1024.png 1024w, https:\/\/tecscience.tec.mx\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2026\/05\/javier-pereda-quotes-300x300.png 300w, https:\/\/tecscience.tec.mx\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2026\/05\/javier-pereda-quotes-150x150.png 150w, https:\/\/tecscience.tec.mx\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2026\/05\/javier-pereda-quotes-768x768.png 768w, https:\/\/tecscience.tec.mx\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2026\/05\/javier-pereda-quotes.png 1080w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/>\r\n            <\/picture><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">The Importance of the Human Eye for Context<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>Pereda explains that tools such as OCR (Optical Character Recognition), machine learning, and pattern recognition are being used in projects to process thousands of historical documents, automate transcriptions, and connect information scattered across archives. \u201cInstead of spending an entire month reading 10 documents, you can do it in half an hour,\u201d he says.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Even so, there are significant challenges in using AI tools because these technologies do not truly understand the historical context of the data they process. For example, some AI models still carry biases or remain \u201cAnglocentric\u201d because <strong>they were trained primarily on information from the Global North<\/strong>, making accurate analysis more difficult when Indigenous languages are involved.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Pereda emphasizes that the participation of specialists remains essential for correctly interpreting and contextualizing information processed with AI, whether it involves describing an object, tracing the history or origins of a dance, or identifying the language of a document.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Is It Feasible to Digitize \u201cHistory\u201d in Mexico?<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Could Mexico develop a digital infrastructure<\/strong> for cultural heritage similar to N-RICH? Javier Pereda believes the country does have the potential to build a project of that scale, particularly because of the vast historical wealth preserved in institutions such as the General Archive of the Nation, which holds millions of documents that remain largely unexplored.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s not that there\u2019s no interest in accessing knowledge \u2014 it\u2019s that there\u2019s so much of it that the task becomes overwhelming. Moreover, much of Mexico\u2019s history has been built around just five documents; hundreds of others have never been examined or are only now beginning to be explored thanks to historians,\u201d Pereda reflects.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>From Tecnol\u00f3gico de Monterrey, the researcher has collaborated on the exploration of concepts and policies related to digital infrastructure with institutions such as Mexico\u2019s Ministry of Culture, the National Institute of Anthropology and History (INAH), and MEXICANA, the Cultural Heritage Repository of Mexico.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The challenge of creating an initiative on that scale, he says, lies in strengthening both technological and human capacities, encouraging <strong>long-term investment<\/strong>, and designing public policies for data protection, governance, and collection management.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cTogether, we aim to transform cultural heritage into an <strong>active infrastructure<\/strong> capable of generating knowledge, innovation, and new forms of creation,\u201d he says.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong><em>Were you interested in this story? Do you want to publish it? Contact our content editor to learn more&nbsp;<a href=\"mailto:marianaleonm@tec.mx\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">marianaleonm@tec.mx<\/a><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An ambitious digital infrastructure project is underway in the United Kingdom to connect collections housed in museums and libraries and make them more accessible.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":47,"featured_media":173333,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_eb_attr":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[558],"tags":[390],"class_list":["post-173331","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-education-and-humanism","tag-school-of-humanities-and-education"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v21.0 (Yoast SEO v27.6) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Digitizing Cultural Heritage: Preserving History Before It Disappears | TecScience<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Cultural heritage safeguarded in museums and libraries is at risk of being lost; digitization technologies can help preserve it and make it accessible.\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/tecscience.tec.mx\/en\/education-and-humanism\/digitizing-cultural-heritage\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"From Museum to Server: The Challenge of Preserving History in the Digital Age\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Cultural heritage safeguarded in museums and libraries is at risk of being lost; digitization technologies can help preserve it and make it accessible.\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/tecscience.tec.mx\/en\/education-and-humanism\/digitizing-cultural-heritage\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"TecScience\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2026-05-14T01:19:02+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2026-05-21T22:13:21+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/tecscience.tec.mx\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2026\/05\/digitizing-cultural-heritage.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"750\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"500\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/jpeg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"Ricardo Trevi\u00f1o\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"Ricardo Trevi\u00f1o\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"6 minutes\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\\\/\\\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"Article\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/tecscience.tec.mx\\\/en\\\/education-and-humanism\\\/digitizing-cultural-heritage\\\/#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/tecscience.tec.mx\\\/en\\\/education-and-humanism\\\/digitizing-cultural-heritage\\\/\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"Ricardo Trevi\u00f1o\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/tecscience.tec.mx\\\/en\\\/#\\\/schema\\\/person\\\/d0ed5b5fa0ab2c4754211e4addf201dc\"},\"headline\":\"From Museum to Server: The Challenge of Preserving History in the Digital Age\",\"datePublished\":\"2026-05-14T01:19:02+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2026-05-21T22:13:21+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/tecscience.tec.mx\\\/en\\\/education-and-humanism\\\/digitizing-cultural-heritage\\\/\"},\"wordCount\":1163,\"publisher\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/tecscience.tec.mx\\\/en\\\/#organization\"},\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/tecscience.tec.mx\\\/en\\\/education-and-humanism\\\/digitizing-cultural-heritage\\\/#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\\\/\\\/tecscience.tec.mx\\\/en\\\/wp-content\\\/uploads\\\/sites\\\/9\\\/2026\\\/05\\\/digitizing-cultural-heritage.jpg\",\"keywords\":[\"School of Humanities and Education\"],\"articleSection\":[\"Education and Humanism\"],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\"},{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/tecscience.tec.mx\\\/en\\\/education-and-humanism\\\/digitizing-cultural-heritage\\\/\",\"url\":\"https:\\\/\\\/tecscience.tec.mx\\\/en\\\/education-and-humanism\\\/digitizing-cultural-heritage\\\/\",\"name\":\"Digitizing Cultural Heritage: Preserving History Before It Disappears | TecScience\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/tecscience.tec.mx\\\/en\\\/#website\"},\"primaryImageOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/tecscience.tec.mx\\\/en\\\/education-and-humanism\\\/digitizing-cultural-heritage\\\/#primaryimage\"},\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/tecscience.tec.mx\\\/en\\\/education-and-humanism\\\/digitizing-cultural-heritage\\\/#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\\\/\\\/tecscience.tec.mx\\\/en\\\/wp-content\\\/uploads\\\/sites\\\/9\\\/2026\\\/05\\\/digitizing-cultural-heritage.jpg\",\"datePublished\":\"2026-05-14T01:19:02+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2026-05-21T22:13:21+00:00\",\"description\":\"Cultural heritage safeguarded in museums and libraries is at risk of being lost; digitization technologies can help preserve it and make it accessible.\",\"breadcrumb\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/tecscience.tec.mx\\\/en\\\/education-and-humanism\\\/digitizing-cultural-heritage\\\/#breadcrumb\"},\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"ReadAction\",\"target\":[\"https:\\\/\\\/tecscience.tec.mx\\\/en\\\/education-and-humanism\\\/digitizing-cultural-heritage\\\/\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/tecscience.tec.mx\\\/en\\\/education-and-humanism\\\/digitizing-cultural-heritage\\\/#primaryimage\",\"url\":\"https:\\\/\\\/tecscience.tec.mx\\\/en\\\/wp-content\\\/uploads\\\/sites\\\/9\\\/2026\\\/05\\\/digitizing-cultural-heritage.jpg\",\"contentUrl\":\"https:\\\/\\\/tecscience.tec.mx\\\/en\\\/wp-content\\\/uploads\\\/sites\\\/9\\\/2026\\\/05\\\/digitizing-cultural-heritage.jpg\",\"width\":750,\"height\":500,\"caption\":\"Technologies such as AI and machine learning could help analyze historical documents far more quickly than traditional methods. (Photo: Getty Images)\"},{\"@type\":\"BreadcrumbList\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/tecscience.tec.mx\\\/en\\\/education-and-humanism\\\/digitizing-cultural-heritage\\\/#breadcrumb\",\"itemListElement\":[{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":1,\"name\":\"Home\",\"item\":\"https:\\\/\\\/tecscience.tec.mx\\\/en\\\/\"},{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":2,\"name\":\"From Museum to Server: The Challenge of Preserving History in the Digital Age\"}]},{\"@type\":\"WebSite\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/tecscience.tec.mx\\\/en\\\/#website\",\"url\":\"https:\\\/\\\/tecscience.tec.mx\\\/en\\\/\",\"name\":\"TecScience\",\"description\":\"-\",\"publisher\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/tecscience.tec.mx\\\/en\\\/#organization\"},\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"SearchAction\",\"target\":{\"@type\":\"EntryPoint\",\"urlTemplate\":\"https:\\\/\\\/tecscience.tec.mx\\\/en\\\/?s={search_term_string}\"},\"query-input\":{\"@type\":\"PropertyValueSpecification\",\"valueRequired\":true,\"valueName\":\"search_term_string\"}}],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\"},{\"@type\":\"Organization\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/tecscience.tec.mx\\\/en\\\/#organization\",\"name\":\"TecScience\",\"url\":\"https:\\\/\\\/tecscience.tec.mx\\\/en\\\/\",\"logo\":{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/tecscience.tec.mx\\\/en\\\/#\\\/schema\\\/logo\\\/image\\\/\",\"url\":\"https:\\\/\\\/tecscience.tec.mx\\\/en\\\/wp-content\\\/uploads\\\/sites\\\/9\\\/2022\\\/11\\\/logo-negro-tecscience.svg\",\"contentUrl\":\"https:\\\/\\\/tecscience.tec.mx\\\/en\\\/wp-content\\\/uploads\\\/sites\\\/9\\\/2022\\\/11\\\/logo-negro-tecscience.svg\",\"width\":250,\"height\":38,\"caption\":\"TecScience\"},\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/tecscience.tec.mx\\\/en\\\/#\\\/schema\\\/logo\\\/image\\\/\"}},{\"@type\":\"Person\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/tecscience.tec.mx\\\/en\\\/#\\\/schema\\\/person\\\/d0ed5b5fa0ab2c4754211e4addf201dc\",\"name\":\"Ricardo Trevi\u00f1o\",\"image\":{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/secure.gravatar.com\\\/avatar\\\/4bcc2569d80f3bc04d35c88e014da852d10420f44fbbf0158af3ce158042ba08?s=96&d=mm&r=g\",\"url\":\"https:\\\/\\\/secure.gravatar.com\\\/avatar\\\/4bcc2569d80f3bc04d35c88e014da852d10420f44fbbf0158af3ce158042ba08?s=96&d=mm&r=g\",\"contentUrl\":\"https:\\\/\\\/secure.gravatar.com\\\/avatar\\\/4bcc2569d80f3bc04d35c88e014da852d10420f44fbbf0158af3ce158042ba08?s=96&d=mm&r=g\",\"caption\":\"Ricardo Trevi\u00f1o\"},\"url\":\"https:\\\/\\\/tecscience.tec.mx\\\/en\\\/author\\\/rtrevino\\\/\"}]}<\/script>\n<!-- \/ Yoast SEO Premium plugin. -->","yoast_head_json":{"title":"Digitizing Cultural Heritage: Preserving History Before It Disappears | TecScience","description":"Cultural heritage safeguarded in museums and libraries is at risk of being lost; digitization technologies can help preserve it and make it accessible.","robots":{"index":"index","follow":"follow","max-snippet":"max-snippet:-1","max-image-preview":"max-image-preview:large","max-video-preview":"max-video-preview:-1"},"canonical":"https:\/\/tecscience.tec.mx\/en\/education-and-humanism\/digitizing-cultural-heritage\/","og_locale":"en_US","og_type":"article","og_title":"From Museum to Server: The Challenge of Preserving History in the Digital Age","og_description":"Cultural heritage safeguarded in museums and libraries is at risk of being lost; digitization technologies can help preserve it and make it accessible.","og_url":"https:\/\/tecscience.tec.mx\/en\/education-and-humanism\/digitizing-cultural-heritage\/","og_site_name":"TecScience","article_published_time":"2026-05-14T01:19:02+00:00","article_modified_time":"2026-05-21T22:13:21+00:00","og_image":[{"width":750,"height":500,"url":"https:\/\/tecscience.tec.mx\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2026\/05\/digitizing-cultural-heritage.jpg","type":"image\/jpeg"}],"author":"Ricardo Trevi\u00f1o","twitter_card":"summary_large_image","twitter_misc":{"Written by":"Ricardo Trevi\u00f1o","Est. reading time":"6 minutes"},"schema":{"@context":"https:\/\/schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"Article","@id":"https:\/\/tecscience.tec.mx\/en\/education-and-humanism\/digitizing-cultural-heritage\/#article","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/tecscience.tec.mx\/en\/education-and-humanism\/digitizing-cultural-heritage\/"},"author":{"name":"Ricardo Trevi\u00f1o","@id":"https:\/\/tecscience.tec.mx\/en\/#\/schema\/person\/d0ed5b5fa0ab2c4754211e4addf201dc"},"headline":"From Museum to Server: The Challenge of Preserving History in the Digital Age","datePublished":"2026-05-14T01:19:02+00:00","dateModified":"2026-05-21T22:13:21+00:00","mainEntityOfPage":{"@id":"https:\/\/tecscience.tec.mx\/en\/education-and-humanism\/digitizing-cultural-heritage\/"},"wordCount":1163,"publisher":{"@id":"https:\/\/tecscience.tec.mx\/en\/#organization"},"image":{"@id":"https:\/\/tecscience.tec.mx\/en\/education-and-humanism\/digitizing-cultural-heritage\/#primaryimage"},"thumbnailUrl":"https:\/\/tecscience.tec.mx\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2026\/05\/digitizing-cultural-heritage.jpg","keywords":["School of Humanities and Education"],"articleSection":["Education and Humanism"],"inLanguage":"en-US"},{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https:\/\/tecscience.tec.mx\/en\/education-and-humanism\/digitizing-cultural-heritage\/","url":"https:\/\/tecscience.tec.mx\/en\/education-and-humanism\/digitizing-cultural-heritage\/","name":"Digitizing Cultural Heritage: Preserving History Before It Disappears | TecScience","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/tecscience.tec.mx\/en\/#website"},"primaryImageOfPage":{"@id":"https:\/\/tecscience.tec.mx\/en\/education-and-humanism\/digitizing-cultural-heritage\/#primaryimage"},"image":{"@id":"https:\/\/tecscience.tec.mx\/en\/education-and-humanism\/digitizing-cultural-heritage\/#primaryimage"},"thumbnailUrl":"https:\/\/tecscience.tec.mx\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2026\/05\/digitizing-cultural-heritage.jpg","datePublished":"2026-05-14T01:19:02+00:00","dateModified":"2026-05-21T22:13:21+00:00","description":"Cultural heritage safeguarded in museums and libraries is at risk of being lost; digitization technologies can help preserve it and make it accessible.","breadcrumb":{"@id":"https:\/\/tecscience.tec.mx\/en\/education-and-humanism\/digitizing-cultural-heritage\/#breadcrumb"},"inLanguage":"en-US","potentialAction":[{"@type":"ReadAction","target":["https:\/\/tecscience.tec.mx\/en\/education-and-humanism\/digitizing-cultural-heritage\/"]}]},{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-US","@id":"https:\/\/tecscience.tec.mx\/en\/education-and-humanism\/digitizing-cultural-heritage\/#primaryimage","url":"https:\/\/tecscience.tec.mx\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2026\/05\/digitizing-cultural-heritage.jpg","contentUrl":"https:\/\/tecscience.tec.mx\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2026\/05\/digitizing-cultural-heritage.jpg","width":750,"height":500,"caption":"Technologies such as AI and machine learning could help analyze historical documents far more quickly than traditional methods. (Photo: Getty Images)"},{"@type":"BreadcrumbList","@id":"https:\/\/tecscience.tec.mx\/en\/education-and-humanism\/digitizing-cultural-heritage\/#breadcrumb","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"name":"Home","item":"https:\/\/tecscience.tec.mx\/en\/"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"name":"From Museum to Server: The Challenge of Preserving History in the Digital Age"}]},{"@type":"WebSite","@id":"https:\/\/tecscience.tec.mx\/en\/#website","url":"https:\/\/tecscience.tec.mx\/en\/","name":"TecScience","description":"-","publisher":{"@id":"https:\/\/tecscience.tec.mx\/en\/#organization"},"potentialAction":[{"@type":"SearchAction","target":{"@type":"EntryPoint","urlTemplate":"https:\/\/tecscience.tec.mx\/en\/?s={search_term_string}"},"query-input":{"@type":"PropertyValueSpecification","valueRequired":true,"valueName":"search_term_string"}}],"inLanguage":"en-US"},{"@type":"Organization","@id":"https:\/\/tecscience.tec.mx\/en\/#organization","name":"TecScience","url":"https:\/\/tecscience.tec.mx\/en\/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-US","@id":"https:\/\/tecscience.tec.mx\/en\/#\/schema\/logo\/image\/","url":"https:\/\/tecscience.tec.mx\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2022\/11\/logo-negro-tecscience.svg","contentUrl":"https:\/\/tecscience.tec.mx\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2022\/11\/logo-negro-tecscience.svg","width":250,"height":38,"caption":"TecScience"},"image":{"@id":"https:\/\/tecscience.tec.mx\/en\/#\/schema\/logo\/image\/"}},{"@type":"Person","@id":"https:\/\/tecscience.tec.mx\/en\/#\/schema\/person\/d0ed5b5fa0ab2c4754211e4addf201dc","name":"Ricardo Trevi\u00f1o","image":{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-US","@id":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/4bcc2569d80f3bc04d35c88e014da852d10420f44fbbf0158af3ce158042ba08?s=96&d=mm&r=g","url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/4bcc2569d80f3bc04d35c88e014da852d10420f44fbbf0158af3ce158042ba08?s=96&d=mm&r=g","contentUrl":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/4bcc2569d80f3bc04d35c88e014da852d10420f44fbbf0158af3ce158042ba08?s=96&d=mm&r=g","caption":"Ricardo Trevi\u00f1o"},"url":"https:\/\/tecscience.tec.mx\/en\/author\/rtrevino\/"}]}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tecscience.tec.mx\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/173331","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tecscience.tec.mx\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tecscience.tec.mx\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tecscience.tec.mx\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/47"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tecscience.tec.mx\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=173331"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/tecscience.tec.mx\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/173331\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":173341,"href":"https:\/\/tecscience.tec.mx\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/173331\/revisions\/173341"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tecscience.tec.mx\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/173333"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tecscience.tec.mx\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=173331"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tecscience.tec.mx\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=173331"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tecscience.tec.mx\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=173331"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}