In February 2011, Google launched its Google Art Project, now known as Google Arts and Culture (GA&C), that currently hosts approximately six million high-resolution images of artworks from around the world, with an objective to make culture more accessible. We demonstrate that GA&C has experienced dramatic growth in recent years and includes artworks for almost every country from the UN member list. However, we document a noticeable lack of balance in the aggregator, with some countries and institutions being prioritized, and a major proportion of the holdings featuring content that resides in the USA. Moreover, after examining Russian and French collections, we see the dominance of artworks from their capital cities in GA&C, while art from provinces is clearly underrepresented. Finally, we find a dominance of art from the 20th century with some emphasis on artworks demonstrating a break in canon or ‘otherness’ of non-Western countries. The discrepancies that we observe give evidence to support previously posited ideas of digital cultural colonialism. This may be due to a lack of data transparency or availability of previously digitized content in the countries with a lower representation in the portal, or an unintentional digital amplification of conventional traditions of art collection and interpretation that dominate museum displays in larger Western cities. We call for explicit statement by platforms on their collection and selection criteria and the need for researchers to understand the biases emerging from aggregated digitized content.

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The article presents the experience of studying and using the cultural heritage of the ancient Siberian Russian city of Yeniseysk, which 400th anniversary will be celebrated in 2019, as a basis for creating a virtual image of the city. The objective of this work was to study the attitudes towards the city in the student youth of Yeniseysk and the young growing city of Lesosibirsk. The following materials were studied: the history of Yeniseysk, cultural heritage, the city as a concentration of cultural heritage, the cultural heritage of Yeniseysk.The paper describes the history of Yeniseysk as a city with a rich cultural heritage, which needs to be studied and preserved. Much of the study is devoted to the analysis of "cultural heritage" category, and various aspects of the concept,which are presented in the national and foreign scientific literature. It is proved that the city as a place for developing the cultural values includes the possibility of their preservation. A brief description of the cultural heritage of Yeniseysk and its natural cultural landscape is presented.Methods of study: questioning, content analysis, survey and results analysis of the integrated database to achieve the goals of this scientific work.Trial and experimental part of the study was the development of website "My Yeniseysk. Living history", where the students of Yeniseysk Pedagogical College and Lesosibirskij Pedagogical Institute have expressed their attitude to the city and its cultural heritage in their essays.