AI for Cultural Heritage
Coordinatori
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Rossana Damiano
Università degli Studi di Torino
Coordinator
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Stefano Ferilli
Università degli Studi di Bari
Coordinator
Ambito e Obiettivi
The working group aims at bringing together researchers, policy makers, professionals and practitioners to explore the main issues concerning the application of Artificial Intelligence to cultural heritage. In particular, it aims at fostering interdisciplinary and multi-disciplinary research on tangible and intangible Cultural Heritage, promoting the use of Artificial Intelligence models, methodologies and tools for the study, research, preservation and dissemination of CH content.
At the same time, the working group will encourage discussion on the ethical aspects and sustainability issues involved in the management, delivery and conservation of cultural heritage, with a specific focus on the involvement of all kinds of stakeholders, so as to represent the different perspectives and communities involved in CH practices.
The working group will also put an emphasis on the exchange of experiences and transfer of good practices within the vast and varied community revolving around Cultural Heritage computing and Artificial Intelligence, with the goal of extending at the national and international level the results achieved by projects, case studies, applications.
In the last two decades, the advent of digital technologies on large scale has paved the way to the application of Artificial Intelligence technologies to the study, preservation and accessibility of cultural heritage. On the one side, the availability of digital data can push forward the study of heritage, improving our understanding of the past, and our capability to preserve and transmit it to new generations; on the other side, it can reduce the gap between heritage and its audiences, leading heritage to the role of engine of cultural and societal progress envisaged by the FARO Convention since 2005.
In cultural heritage, the development of applications usually requires the involvement of an interdisciplinary team, and is often constrained to standard formats and frameworks elaborated by national and international institutions. This multidisciplinary approach represents, at the same time, a challenge and an opportunity for Artificial intelligence, since it calls for the elaboration and formalization of original models and the refinement of existing tools and technologies, and the creation of novel ones.
General areas and topics of interests include (but are not limited to):
- Intelligent Management systems in CH
- Cultural landscapes and cultural tourism
- Acquisition, conservation and restoration
- Visualization Techniques and Extended Reality
- Multimedia and Multilingual Data Management
- Gamification and Storytelling in CH
- Museum and Exhibition Applications
- Libraries and Archives in CH
- Preservation and long term accessibility
- Tools for Education, Documentation and Training
- Learning and Reasoning on CH data
- DRM and Legal Issues
- Societal, Professional and Ethical Guidelines
- Intangible Heritage Representation and Processing
- Cultural Heritage Ontologies and Vocabularies
- Linked Data and Knowledge Graphs for Cultural Heritage
- Language Technologies for Cultural heritage
- Semantic Social Networks in Heritage data
- Document processing
- Accessibility and inclusion in CH
- Mining and indexing of CH contents
- Workflow management in Cultural Heritage
Iniziative ed Eventi
The official opportunity for the members of the group is the annual workshop organized in conjunction with the Congress of the Italian Association for Artificial Intelligence (https://ai4ch.di.unito.it/), whose proceedings are published in the CEUR series.
A collaboration is ongoing with IRCDL (The Conference on Information and Research science Connecting to Digital and Library science, formerly the "Italian Research Conference on Digital Libraries"), active since 1995.
Further synergies with other relevant events in the field, such as TPDL (Theory and Practice of Digital Libraries), are expected to be established.
Past editions of the IAI4CH workshop:
- 2 (2023, Roma): https://ai4ch.di.unito.it/, proceedings: https://ceur-ws.org/Vol-3536/;
- 1 (2022, Udine): https://ai4ch.di.unito.it/ai4ch-2022/, proceedings: https://ceur-ws.org/Vol-3286/.