IAI4CH
AIACH 2023

AIACH 2023

IAI4CH – Edition 2023

Welcome to the web site of IAI4CH , the 2nd Workshop on Artificial Intelligence for Cultural Heritage, which will be held in conjunction with the 22nd International Conference of the Italian Association for Artificial Intelligence (AIxIA 2023), which will take place in Roma (Italy) from 6 to 9 november 2023.

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Authors are invited to submit original, unpublished research and project papers that are not (and will not be) simultaneously under consideration for publication elsewhere.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/

Important dates

  • Paper submission deadline:                 September 22th
  • Notifications of paper acceptance:    October 5th
  • Camera-ready version deadline:        October 23th
  • Workshop (at AI*IA 2023):                  November 6th, 2023

Call for Papers

2nd Italian Workshop on Artificial Intelligence for Cultural Heritage (IAICH23)

Co-located with the 22nd International Conference of the Italian Association for Artificial Intelligence (AIxIA 2023). 

http://www.aixia2023.cnr.it/

November 6 – November 9, 2023, Rome (Italy)
Workshop website: https://ai4ch.di.unito.it/

Abstract

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. 

Topics of Interest

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

Submission

IAICH accepts the following types of submissions:

  • Full papers (8-10 pages)
  • Short papers (6 pages)
    Suitable for presenting work in progress, software prototypes or extended abstracts of doctoral theses
  • Project papers (6 pages) excluding references
    General overviews of research projects

All papers must be written in English and formatted according to the new workflow for CEUR-WS style proceedings guidelines. The guidelines can be found here:
http://ceur-ws.org/HOWTOSUBMIT.html

Authors should submit their papers as single-column. The templates are available here (we strongly recommend the usage of LaTeX for the camera-ready papers to minimize the extent of reformatting):

Authors should clearly indicate the topic/s and the type of the contribution.

Submissions should be single blinded, i.e. authors names should be included in the submissions.

Papers must be submitted in PDF format via the online submission system CMT by selecting “AI4CH (The 2nd Workshop on Artificial Intelligence for Cultural Heritage)”:
https://cmt3.research.microsoft.com/IAI4CH2023/

Download the CMT app to access submissions and reviews on the move and receive notifications:

https://apps.apple.com/us/app/conference-management-toolkit/id1532488001
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.microsoft.research.cmt

All papers will be peer-reviewed by at least two members of the programme committee and evaluated on the basis of relevance, originality, significance, soundness, and clarity. Papers that exceed the page limits or formatting guidelines will be returned without review. Final copies of papers for inclusion to the conference proceedings will be published on CEUR in the AI*IA series (Scopus indexed). At least one author must attend the conference to present the paper.

Organizational details such as: thematic panels, demo sessions, invited talks

  • The workshop will include an invited talk and a panel discussion

Submission

IAICH accepts the following types of submissions:

  • Full papers (8-10 pages)
  • Short papers (6 pages)
    Suitable for presenting work in progress, software prototypes or extended abstracts of doctoral theses
  • Project papers (6 pages) excluding references
    General overviews of research projects

A special track will be open in connection with the Conference on  Information and Research science Connecting to Digital and Library  science, formerly the Italian Research Conference on Digital Libraries  (IRCDL). Authors of short/project papers accepted for publication and  presentation at IRCDL2023 are invited to submit an extended version of  their work as full paper to IAI4CH2023.

All papers must be written in English and formatted according to the new workflow for CEUR-WS style proceedings guidelines. The guidelines can be found here:
http://ceur-ws.org/HOWTOSUBMIT.html

Authors should submit their papers as single-column. The templates are available here (we strongly recommend the usage of LaTeX for the camera-ready papers to minimize the extent of reformatting):

Authors should clearly indicate the topic/s and the type of the contribution.

Submissions should be single blinded, i.e. authors names should be included in the submissions.

Papers must be submitted in PDF format via the online submission system CMT by selecting “AI4CH (The 2nd Workshop on Artificial Intelligence for Cultural Heritage)”:
https://cmt3.research.microsoft.com/IAI4CH2023/

Download the CMT app to access submissions and reviews on the move and receive notifications:

https://apps.apple.com/us/app/conference-management-toolkit/id1532488001
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.microsoft.research.cmt

All papers will be peer-reviewed by at least two members of the programme committee and evaluated on the basis of relevance, originality, significance, soundness, and clarity. Papers that exceed the page limits or formatting guidelines will be returned without review. Final copies of papers for inclusion to the conference proceedings will be published on CEUR in the AI*IA series (Scopus indexed). At least one author must attend the conference to present the paper.

Instruction for Camera-Ready submission
(for accepted papers ONLY)

Once you have received your acceptance notification, there are necessary steps you have to complete to prepare your final submission for publication. Please contact the organizers if you have any questions.

The instructions below will help you in formatting the camera-ready version of your paper. Please, read all of them carefully before submitting it.

Prepare your revised final manuscript

  • Please address reviewers comments and revise your paper accordingly before submitting the final camera-ready version.
  • Please make sure that all Figures and Tables are of high quality and their content is easily
  • Please don’t use author titles (Dr., , Ing., etc.) in front of names and avoid using positions such as Professor, Lecturer, Scholar, Ing., etc.
  • Please ensure that the submission information (including title, authors, abstract etc.) is updated with your most recent version.
  • Remove all headers and footers including page numbering except the conference title
  • Compile and upload the CEUR-WS Author-agreement form

Authors should submit their papers as single-column. The templates are available here (we strongly recommend the usage of the following templates for the camera-ready papers to minimize the extent of reformatting)

Download LaTeX template for IAI4CH camera-ready

Download .docx template for IAI4CH camera-ready

Download CEUR-WS AUTHOR-AGREEMENT form for IAI4CH

Program – IAI4CH @AIxIA 2023

The workshop will take place on Monday, November 6th, the first day of AIxIA2023. The program of the workshop includes a rich set of presentations from all the IAI4CH thematic areas, panel discussions and closing.

Note for speakers:

  • Contributed talks will be given a slot of ~25 minutes for long paper and ~15 for short. We would like to leave more room for discussion so we suggest to organize your time in order to reserve approximately 5 minutes for the discussion.

We are looking forward to meeting you all in Rome!

Download program as a PDF file

Workshop Proceedings CEUR-WS are online – IAI4CH 2023, Vol 3536

13:30 — 13:35
Welcome and opening of the workshop – (Room N21-60)
Chair: Stefano Ferilli

Session 1: Digital Libraries
Chair: Gianmaria Silvello

13:35— 14:00
Bridging Islamic Knowledge and AI: Inquiring ChatGPT on Possible Categorizations for an Islamic Digital Library
Riccardo Amerigo Vigliermo*, Amina El Ganadi, Luca Sala, Matteo Vanzini, Federico Ruozzi, Sonia Bergamaschi

14:00 — 14:25
A Holistic Ontology for Digital Libraries – The IFLA-compliant Core
Stefano Ferilli*, Eleonora Bernasconi, Davide Di Pierro, Domenico Redavid

14:25 — 14:40
AI-Innovative digitization and management processes for Digital Libraries and Archives cultural heritage: toward an inclusive and sustainable phygital ecosystem
Stefano Ferilli*, Annastella Carrino, Giuliano De Felice, Paolo Fioretti, Pietro Silanos, Eleonora Bernasconi

Session 2: Audience and Interaction
Chair: Rossana Damiano

14:40 — 15:05
Towards a Deeper Understanding: EEG and Facial Expressions in Cultural Heritage
Alessio Ferrato*, Lorenzo Battisti, Sabrina Fagioli, Carla Limongelli, Stefano Mastandrea, Mauro Mezzini, Davide Nardo, Giuseppe Sansonetti

15:05 — 15:30
Extracting Emotions from Users’ Annotations in Virtual Museums: a Case Study on the Pop-up Virtual Museum of the Design Museum Helsinki
Manuel Striani*, Gautam Vishwanath, Lily Diaz-Kommonen, Antonio Lieto, Leena Svinhufvud, Rossana Damiano

15:30 — 15:45
Artful Accessibility: Designing Technologies to Enhance Museum Experiences for Individuals with Mobility Disabilities in Art Exhibitions
Julia Sheidin*, Tsvi Kuflik

15:45 — 16:00
Linking Historical Evidence to Digital Maps: The MICOLL-Map
Giorgio Maria Di Nunzio*; Jake Dyble, Fabio Giachelle, Stefania Gialdroni

   ☕ Coffee break

Session 3: Language in Cultural Heritage
Chair: Manuel Striani

16:30 — 16:55
Usage of Language Model for the Filling of Lacunae in Ancient Latin Inscriptions: A Case Study
Alessandro Locaputo*, Andrea Brunello, Emanuela Colombi, Stefano Magnani, Nicola Saccomanno, Giuseppe Serra

16:55 — 17:10
The WOW Project: Bridging AI and Cultural Heritage for Actress Writings
Laura Pandolfo*, Lucia Cardone, Lucia Cutzu, Raffaella Perna, Beatrice Seligardi, Giulia Simi

Session 4: Cultural data representation
Chair: Stefano Ferilli

17:10 — 17:35
Empowering Digital Transformation in Tourism through Intelligent Methods for Representation and Exploitation of Cultural Heritage Knowledge
Alessandro Giuliani*, Salvatore Carta, Gianni Fenu, Marco Manolo Manca, Mirko Marras, Leonardo Piano, Alessandro Sebastian Podda, Livio Pompianu, Sandro Gabriele Tiddia

17:35 — 18:00
A Knowledge Graph of Values across Space and Time
Martin Ruskov*, Maria Dagioglou, Marko Kokol, Stefano Montanelli, Georgios Petasi

18:00 — 18:25
A comprehensive solution for semantic knowledge exploration
Eleonora Bernasconi*, Davide Di Pierro, Domenico Redavid, Stefano Ferilli

18:25 — 18:30
Wrap-up

Organizers and Program Co-Chairs

Program Committee

  • Alan Wecker, University of Haifa, Israel
  • Alberto Pretto, University of Padova, Italy
  • Alessia Amelio, University of Chieti, Italy
  • Alex Falcon, University of Udine, Italy
  • Anna Maria Marras, University of Torino, Italy
  • Antonio Rodà, University of Padova, Italy
  • Beatrice Portelli, University of Udine, Italy
  • Davide Di Pierro, University of Bari, Italy
  • Donatella Firmani, University of Roma Tre, Italy
  • Eleonora Bernasconi, University of Bari, Italy
  • Francesca Naretto, SNS of Pisa, Italy
  • Gennaro Vessio, University of Bari, Italy
  • Gianmaria Silvello, University of Padova, Italy
  • Giorgio Maria Di Nunzio, University of Padova, Italy
  • Guillermo Jiménez-Díaz, Universidad Complutense of Madrid, Spain
  • Ilaria Torre, University of Genova, Italy
  • Ivan Heibi, University of Bologna, Italy
  • Leonardo Candela, CNR-ISTI, Italy
  • Lia Draetta, University of Torino, Italy
  • Manuel Striani, University of Piemonte Orientale, Italy
  • Marco Bertini, University of Firenze, Italy
  • Martin Ruskov, University of Milano, Italy
  • Nele Kadastik, Aalborg University, Denmark
  • Rossana Damiano, University of Torino, Italy
  • Stefano Ferilli, University of Bari, Italy
  • Tsvi Kuflik, University of Haifa, Israel