Towards Cultural Heritage Digital Twin: Concept, Characteristics, Framework and Applications

The introduction of the digital twin has promoted the development of the lifecycle management of cultural heritage and the innovation of digital protection and utilization, interpretation and dissemination of cultural heritage. By reviewing the relevant literature at home and abroad, this paper summarizes the characteristics of digital twin, compares the data lifecycle management, enabling technologies and application framework in architectural cultural heritage and cultural heritage metaverse, analyzes the connotation of cultural heritage digital twin and digital twin process, and puts forward the framework of cultural heritage digital twin, taking two representative heritage areas of Huai’an section of the Grand Canal as examples for application design, the necessary conditions and challenges are discussed.