Team Xsparks

Heritage Atlas – AI-Powered Digital Heritage Discovery Platform Heritage Atlas is an AI-powered digital platform designed to preserve, organize and improve access to fragmented cultural and architectural heritage archives. The platform transforms unstructured heritage photographs and records into an interactive, searchable archive. It integrates CLIP for visual similarity and text-to-image search, MiniLM for semantic text search, and Google's Gemini API for conversational heritage exploration grounded in retrieved archive information. Users can explore heritage sites through an interactive geographical map, discover visually similar monuments, upload heritage photographs and create personalized Explorer Trails. Built using Next.js, React, FastAPI, Python, PostgreSQL and pgvector, Heritage Atlas combines modern AI technologies with digital archiving and geographical discovery. A key principle is responsible AI: machine-generated suggestions remain separate from verified historical information, with a human review workflow designed to support future verification. Our goal is to make India's cultural and architectural heritage more accessible, discoverable and easier to explore through intelligent technology.