AI Applications in Digital Heritage: Regional Workshop

Overview

  • June 23 (Pre-workshop day): Visits to heritage projects and institutions in Singapore
  • June 24 (Day 1): Research and Project Presentations by researchers and heritage professionals in the region (12 to 14 presentations)
  • June 25 & 26 (Day 2 & 3): Hands-on tutorials on AI technologies and applications (4 tutorials)

Participants may attend selected days of the Workshop.

Program chair: Chris Khoo ([email protected])

Background

Current digital heritage system interfaces are item-centric—displaying descriptions of individual items one at a time. To enable research, learning, entertainment and casual exploration of heritage resources by public users, digital heritage systems need to support user browsing by relationships between resources, offer analytical and AI functions, and help users to integrate information and synthesize stories. Recent developments in Generative AI, LLM, cloud services and other digital technologies offer opportunities for developing new types of systems, interfaces and applications to support these goals.

Objectives

The objectives of the workshop are:

  1. To explore promising AI applications and digital technologies that can be applied to heritage materials and implemented in digital heritage systems—to support research, learning, entertainment and exploration by researchers, students/teachers and the public.
  2. To share practical skills in selected AI technologies and their application to digital heritage content and systems.
  3. To develop regional collaborative projects in the area of digital heritage.
  4. To discuss how the Asian Centre for Digital Cultures at NTU can support such collaborative projects.

Focus & motivation

The focus of the Workshop will be on practical AI methods and skills that can be applied to heritage materials and implemented in digital heritage systems and applications. The project presentations on Day 1 of the workshop will focus on lessons drawn from recent/current heritage projects in Asia. The tutorials in Day 2 and 3 will seek to impart practical skills. It is hoped that the workshop will have a tangible impact on digital heritage research and development in Singapore and in the region.

Target audience

The target audience are researchers and professionals working on digital heritage (interpreted broadly) in Asia. This includes the staff of GLAM institutions (galleries, libraries, archives and museums) and university faculty, researchers and graduate students.