IAI4CH

Welcome to the web site of IAI4CH , the 4th Workshop on Artificial Intelligence for Cultural Heritage, which will be held in conjunction with the 24th International Conference of the Italian Association for Artificial Intelligence (AIxIA 2026), which will take place in Perugia (Italy) from 6 to 9 october 2026.

IAICH 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 workshop 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 workshop 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.
An effort will be made to create synergies with other relevant events in the field, such as TPDL (Theory and Practice of Digital Libraries), IRCDL (Italian Research Conference on Digital Libraries).
Authors are invited to submit original, unpublished research and project papers that are not (and will not be) simultaneously under consideration for publication elsewhere.
The review process will be informed on the guidelines of Open Science expressed here: https://open-sci.github.io/review/

Motivations

This workshop represents the yearly event in which the group members of the AIxIA Working Group on “Artificial Intelligence for Cultural Heritage” meet to exchange ideas, foster cooperation, and get in touch with the other stakeholders. It gathers interested researchers and practitioners.
There is a growing need for advanced technological solutions for preservation, restoration, valorisation and fruition of Cultural Heritage. In fact, AI has traditionally provided successful solutions to CH practices, and is likely to contribute even more in the future, taking on an increasingly relevant role. On the other hand, CH challenges in the digital era may provide relevant application domains and tasks to AI research