Abstract: Smart data is becoming a new development trend of information resource construction in the age of data and intelligence. It is an advanced form of data resources organization and more suitable for the new demands and requirements on the data and service in the new environment. Firstly, this article systematically reviews the historical evolution and development trend of smart data, and analyzes the scientific meaning and critical features of smart data. Secondly, facing the problems of cultural heritage inheritance and activation, this article explains the internal logic of smart data empowering cultural heritage activation. Finally, the article puts forward the construction measures and path of cultural heritage smart data, including the construction mechanism, smart data standards and specifications, cultural gene deconstruction, quality control system. The research of smart data not only improves the quality and efficiency of big data resources, but also contributes to the theoretical reform of information resources management and knowledge management in the empowerment of data and intelligence. The construction of cultural heritage smart data resources will effectively promote the process of cultural heritage protection, inheritance and activation.

Key words: Smart data, Cultural heritage, Activation and utilization, Information resources management, Data science