IAI4CH – Edition 2024

Welcome to the web site of IAI4CH , the 4th Workshop on Artificial Intelligence for Cultural Heritage, which will be held in conjunction with the 23rd International Conference of the Italian Association for Artificial Intelligence (AIxIA 2024), which will take place in Bolzano (Italy) from 25 to 28 november 2024.

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Authors are invited to submit original, unpublished research and project papers that are not (and will not be) simultaneously under consideration for publication elsewhere.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

3rd Italian Workshop on Artificial Intelligence for Cultural Heritage (IAICH24)

Co-located with the 23rd International Conference of the Italian Association for Artificial Intelligence (AIxIA 2024).

https://aixia2024.events.unibz.it/

November 25 – November 28, 2024, Bolzano (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

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):

Overleaf template in LaTeX format:
https://www.overleaf.com/latex/templates/template-for-submissions-to-ceur-workshop-proceedings-ceur-ws-dot-org/wqyfdgftmcfw
Overleaf offline template (LaTeX format):
http://ceur-ws.org/Vol-XXX/CEURART.zip
Word template:
http://ceur-ws.org/Vol-XXX/CEUR-Template-1col.docx
ODT template:
http://ceur-ws.org/Vol-XXX/CEUR-Template-1col.odt

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.

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

Special track: Data for cultural heritage

Data track Chair: Bernardino Tommaso Sassoli De Bianchi

We are pleased to announce the Datasets for Cultural Heritage special track. The special track acknowledges the centrality of data to the progress of AI as applied to the fields of cultural heritage and aspires to foster positive contributions and discussions to this all-important aspect of the field. Inasmuch as data acts as a de facto interface between CH subject-matter experts such as archeologists, art historians, or museum curators on the one hand and AI practitioners on the other, we need to ensure the availability of high-quality, accessible datasets. A data-centric approach to CH encounters a pronounced set of specific challenges, including: digitization lags in most areas of CH, most institutions still need to be conversant with data, no common standardized metadata schemas, and so on. Perhaps more importantly, data scientists, ML practitioners, and computer scientists often fail to engage thoroughly with subject matter experts in an integrated, interdisciplinary way. This track aims to address and work towards solving and mitigating such issues and challenges, explicitly fostering interdisciplinary collaboration and dialogue. Below are examples of submissions that we envision:

New datasets
Curated datasets based on previously available data (e.g., a collection of landscapes from artworks)
CH-specific classification, labeling, and metadata schemas aimed at facilitating interdisciplinary research
Methodological discussions and frameworks that address the specific challenges insisting on data collection and curation for CH
Audits and discussions of existing datasets, analyzing issues, and putting forth proposals for their improvement

All submissions should ensure compliance with current ethical and legal standards and frameworks.

Data papers should comply with the following requirements:

6-8 pages
Motivations for the data collection
Description of format and schema
Clear statement about the availability of the dataset
Discussion of the ethical issues, if any
DRM schema adopted
Contributors and responsibility
FAIRness discussion

Programme – IAI4CH @AIxIA 2024

The workshop will take place on Monday, Thursday 28th, the third day of AIxIA2024. 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 ~20-25 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 Bolzano!

CEUR-WS Proceedings of the 3rd International Workshop on Artificial Intelligence for Cultural Heritage
https://ceur-ws.org/Vol-3865

10:30	10:40	Welcome and opening

Session S1: AI for Digital Humanities – Chair: Rossana Damiano
10:40	11:05	25	New frontiers in Digital Libraries: The trajectory of Digital Humanities through a computational lens
11:05	11:25	20	How BERT Speaks Shakespearean English? Evaluating Historical Bias in Masked Language Models
11:25	11:45	20	Transfer learning for Renaissance illuminated manuscripts: starting a journey from classification to interpretation

Session S2: Ontologies in CH (I) – Chair: Manuel Striani
11:45	12:05	20	Using Ontologies for LLM Applications in Cultural Heritage
12:05	12:30	25	Ontological Representation of Narrative Places for Cinema Archives

LUNCH BREAK 🍔 ☕️

Special track: Data and Applications

13:30	13:35	Introduction to the special track – Chair: Bernardino Tommaso Sassoli De Bianchi
13:35	13:55	20	Constructing a Knowledge Graph for Italian Cinema Divas’ Autobiographies
13:55	14:20	25	Developing a Comprehensive Dataset for Enhancing Social Inclusion and Cohesion in Citizen Curation for Cultural Heritage
14:20	14:35	15	Intelligent Human-Computer Interaction in Innovative AI Solutions in Travel and Its Impact on the E-Society
14:35	14:50	15	Digital Augmented Reality App for Historic Architecture

Session S3: Ontologies in CH (II) – Chair: Stefano Ferilli
14:50	15:10	20	Semantic Label Property Graph Ontologies: A Methodology for Enhanced Data Management in Digital Libraries
15:10	15:30	20	From plot to prompts: a case study on interactive narratives in museums

COFFEE BREAK ☕️

Session S4: Media – Chair: Gianmaria Silvello
16:00	16:25	25	Filming the sound: Anomaly Detection on Audio Tape Recordings using Computer Vision Algorithms
16:25	16:45	20	Saliency-driven 3D Reconstruction and Printing for Accessible Museums
16:45	17:15	25	CHIP a Recommender System and a Travel Planner for Cultural Tourism

17:15	17:45	20	Closing and Wrap up

Organizers and Program Co-Chairs

Rossana Damiano – University of Torino (Italy)
E-Mail: rossana.damiano@unito.it – Personal homepage

Manuel Striani – University of Piemonte Orientale (Italy)
E-mail: manuel.striani@uniupo.it – Personal homepage

Stefano Ferilli – University of Bari (Italy)
E-mail: stefano.ferilli@uniba.it – Personal homepage

Gianmaria Silvello – University of Padova (Italy)
E-mail: silvello@dei.unipd.it – Personal homepage

Chair – Special Track: Data for Cultural Heritage

Bernardino Tommaso Sassoli De Bianchi – University of Milano (Italy)
E-mail: bernardino.sassoli@unimi.it – Personal homepage

Program Committee

Alex Falcon, University of Udine, Italy
Anna Maria Marras, University of Torino, Italy
Ilaria Torre, University of Genova, Italy
Ivan Heibi, University of Bologna, Italy
Laura Pandolfo, University of Sassari, Italy
Massimo De Santo, University of Salerno, Italy
Martin Ruskov, University of Milano, Italy
Mirko Lai, University of Piemonte Orientale, Italy
Tsvi Kuflik, University of Haifa, Israel