Driving Digital Transformation in Cultural Heritage Institutions

Ensuring that digitized cultural heritage assets can be created, accessed, and reused in trustworthy and sustainable ways requires both sound underlying principles and standards as well as practical solutions. In this session, Frederik will discuss good practices and current state of media standards for authenticity, provenance and representation formats that enable reliable long-term access. Particular attention will be given to how such frameworks can safeguard trust and reusability when cultural heritage data is enhanced or transformed, including through the use of emerging technologies such as AI. In the second part, Eirini will build on this perspective by presenting insights from the AI4Culture project. She will explore the opportunities and challenges that AI technologies bring to the cultural heritage sector, drawing on lessons learned from the project. As part of her presentation, she will discuss diverse as well as common concerns across different AI application scenarios and highlight the types of knowledge and capacity resources needed by CH organisations. She will also present the resources and functionalities offered by the AI4Culture platform, an online capacity-building hub designed to make AI technologies more accessible and usable within the cultural heritage sector. The presentation will be followed by a hands-on interactive session, where participants will have the opportunity to engage directly with the AI4Culture platform and provide feedback and suggestions for further improvements.