The UNESCO project “Intangible Cultural Heritage” (ICH) offers an impressive collection of intangible cultural heritage as well as a register of best protection measures.
These can be found on the UNESCO website in English, French, and Spanish, beautifully describing the individual cultural peculiarities of the nations of the world.
As a friend of online ethnology, I have set up a new interface in the form of an interactive world map (JavaScript, OpenStreetMap & GeoJSON).
By clicking on a country, you gain insight into the culture of that country as registered by UNESCO (UNESCO Open Access Database).
Using the ChatGPT API and Python, I translated the entire database into the 10 most spoken languages in the world. Additionally, I improved/enlarged all images from the database with Topaz AI.
By clicking on the cube, a random entry is displayed.
Discover the world!
Note: Not suitable for mobile view
Sources:
- UNESCO Open Access Database: Metadata, descriptions, and images from the UNESCO ICH database were used for this project.
- OpenStreetMap: The map representation is based on tiles from OpenStreetMap.
- GeoJSON World Map: The vector data for the country outlines comes from the open-source GeoJSON project.
- IPAPI (ipapi.co): Automatic location determination is done via the API service ipapi.co.
- Topaz AI: The images from the UNESCO database were upscaled using Topaz AI.
- ChatGPT (OpenAI): The translations of the UNESCO data into 10 languages were created using ChatGPT.
This project is an experimental, non-commercial portfolio project and is for demonstration purposes only. All content (images, texts, titles) is the property of UNESCO. The translations were created using AI (ChatGPT). The map tiles come from OpenStreetMap. There is no connection to UNESCO, OpenStreetMap, or other organizations. The complete UNESCO metadata is available for download in English.
