The Cultural Inventory project was launched to identify immovable cultural assets belonging to civilizations that have left their mark across Turkey.
The scope of the project continues to expand by tracing assets belonging to Turkish culture that are located outside of Turkey. To date, the number of identified cultural assets has exceeded 26,000, while the number of added images has approached 25,000. Operating as a participatory and interdisciplinary platform, the project also serves as a prime example in the field of Digital Humanities.
Driven by the motto “If we know, we protect!” and enriched daily by the contributions of volunteers, the Cultural Inventory launched in its new format in December 2019 as a collaborative effort by Caner Cangül and A. Erdem Şentürk. The number of documented cultural assets, which stood at 7,000 at launch, has now surpassed 26,000. The project continues to grow, fueled by the contributions of over 200 “Cultural Ambassadors” who have joined the initiative to date. Every day, while new cultural assets are being cataloged, information on dozens of existing cultural assets is being updated; at the same time, the visual archive is being enriched with both archival photos and current photos taken by volunteers.