A visual analytics approach for national intangible cultural heritage in Heilongjiang province

The work of traditional intangible cultural heritage analyzes the intangible cultural works in restricted scales way. So, it is difficult to multi-scale understand the closely related to intangible cultural heritage. In this paper, visual analytics approaches are proposed for the preserve and protection those historic cultural heritages, which include multi-dimensional visualization, temporal visualization, and geospatial visualization. We take national intangible cultural heritage in Heilongjiang province as an example. Through visual analysis of intangible cultural heritage in Heilongjiang province, experts can form multi-dimensional understanding the culture of Heilongjiang province, including the categories, numbers and distributions. Furthermore, those methods we proposed can effective help experts make an in-depth analysis of those intangible cultural heritage, and provide them a new insight in a comparative way.