ABSTRACT
Paradata relating to heritage visualization, when identified, captured and published, are potentially of immense value to all who seek to access, extend or communicate understandings of human culture, from researchers and curators to educators, media organizations and the general public. Paradata captures the selection, evaluation and exploration of ideas, as well as entropy and cultural assumptions, research and technical decisions, inference and implied possibilities and probabilities. The Data, Information, Knowledge, Wisdom (DIKW) model, while it draws one's attention to the importance of understanding what happens to 'evidence' as it is subjected to the process of visualization, would require further elucidation and development in order to yield more substantial gains for the theoretical understanding of heritage visualization. In heritage visualization, the metadata of an object is ideally kept as objective as possible, while the subjective process of combining data to transform them into something more useful is held in the paradata documentation.
