Welcome to the ICH Shared Heritage Radar — an AI-powered tool that continuously discovers, enriches, and maps Intangible Cultural Heritage (ICH) from communities around the world. Data is updated automatically every 2 days.
Live System Status
The status ticker at the top of the page shows the most recently discovered or enriched heritage element, its country of origin, and its data completion status in real time.
COMPLETEAll fields found — description, steps, sources, shared connections.
INCOMPLETEStill missing step-by-step process, recipe, or valid image. Will be enriched next run.
Dashboard Stats
Total Elements — Total number of ICH records in the database.
Complete Data — Records with full descriptions, processes, and sources.
Needs Enrichment — Records flagged for a follow-up AI enrichment pass.
Shared Heritage Network — Records where cultural connections across countries were detected.
Heritage Network Map
Green pulsing node — An ICH element's origin location. Click to see all elements from that region in a popup. If multiple elements share the same coordinates, a number badge appears on the node.
Yellow node — A related heritage element in another country, linked by a shared cultural lineage. Click to see the element name, country, and relationship reason.
Animated dashed line — A "Shared Heritage" connection between two cultures. The AI detected a historical, linguistic, or cultural relationship between them.
Use your mouse scroll wheel to zoom, and click-drag to pan. The map automatically filters to match the active directory filters below.
Directory & Filters
Filter by Country — Narrow the directory and map to a single country of origin.
Filter by Status — Show only Complete, Incomplete, or Shared Heritage records.
Sort — Toggle between newest-first and oldest-first by discovery date.
Items per page — Choose 9, 18, 36, or 72 cards per page. Pagination at the bottom lets you navigate large datasets.
View Full Analysis — Opens the detail modal for that element (see below).
Element Detail View
Clicking View Full Analysis opens a full detail panel with:
Cover Image — Automatically fetched thumbnail for the element.
Mini Map — A focused map showing the element's origin and its shared heritage connections at a glance.
Origin & Category — Country, province(s), and ICH category.
Cultural Significance — AI-summarized importance of the element to its community.
Tools & Materials — Ingredients, instruments, or materials used in the practice.
Step-by-Step Process — The AI-extracted crafting method, recipe, or ritual sequence. Only shown for COMPLETE records.
Shared Heritage —
Countries and elements with a detected cultural connection, shown with an AI confidence score.
This analysis is generated by AI based on publicly available online sources.
Results may reflect the diversity, gaps, or biases present in community-generated knowledge.
Video Media — If a YouTube link was found in the sources, an embedded video carousel appears automatically.
Data Sources — Direct links to Wikipedia articles, local news, community blogs, and Google-grounded sources used by the AI.
Export to PDF
Click the printer icon inside any element's detail view to generate a print-ready document. A new tab will open containing the full record — cover image, map, description, steps, and sources — then your browser's print dialog will appear automatically.
Popup Blocker Warning
The PDF export opens in a new browser tab. If nothing happens when you click the printer icon, your browser's popup blocker is preventing it.
To fix this:
Chrome / Edge: Look for a blocked popup icon in the address bar on the right. Click it, then select "Always allow popups from this site".
Firefox: A bar appears at the top of the page. Click "Allow" or "Options → Allow popups for this site".
Safari: Go to Settings → Websites → Pop-up Windows and set this site to "Allow".
Once allowed, click the printer icon again. The export tab will open and the print dialog will appear after ~1.5 seconds to ensure the map renders correctly.
💡 Tip: In the print dialog, select "Save as PDF" as the destination to export a digital PDF file instead of printing to paper.
Export XML (Dublin Core)
The Export XML button in the header downloads the entire database as a structured Dublin Core OAI-DC XML file.
Dublin Core is an internationally recognised metadata standard used by libraries, archives, and cultural heritage institutions worldwide. This makes the exported file compatible with:
Digital library systems (DSpace, Omeka, Fedora)
Open Archives Initiative (OAI-PMH) harvesters
Academic research databases and citation managers
UNESCO and national ICH documentation systems
Each element exports with its dc:identifier, dc:title, dc:subject (category), dc:description, dc:coverage (country), and all dc:source URLs.
Language Toggle (EN / ID)
Switch the interface between English and Bahasa Indonesia using the button in the top-right corner. All labels, filters, modal text, and status messages will update instantly. Your current filter and page state is preserved.
About the AI Engine
This radar is powered by Google Gemini 2.5 Flash with Google Search Grounding. The AI crawler runs on a 2-day schedule, executing two phases per run: first it enriches any incomplete records from the previous run, then it discovers 2–4 entirely new heritage elements using a rotating multilingual keyword database spanning 40+ languages and regions — from unregistered village traditions to UNESCO-listed practices.
Coordinates are geocoded via OpenStreetMap Nominatim. Thumbnails are fetched via Microlink or Wikimedia Commons fallback. All source URLs are direct links — no AI-generated redirect links are stored.
Cultural Similarity & Diffusion Graph
Interactive network mapping of shared heritage across borders.