Report: AI for Digital Heritage Innovation
The report focuses on how Artificial Intelligence (AI) can change the management of cultural heritage and improve its preservation & accessibility.
AI has a transformative potential for heritage conservation and engagement but requires cross-sectoral collaboration, innovation, and investment.
The research highlights the scope of AI in the field of cultural heritage and innovation, showing the state of the art of AI technologies for cultural heritage, and the related challenges and opportunities.
The digitalization in the field of cultural heritage has been accelerated by the pandemic and it has turned out to be a huge potential to face the key challenge of sustainability and the preservation of the environment, and to increase social inclusion.
The report presents four areas of interest:
- Teaching people new skills to use AI in their work with cultural heritage,
- Ensuring that cultural heritage work is good for the environment
- Reaching more people by using digital tools
- Coming up with new ways to give economic support cultural heritage work.
The AI may be used in many fields of cultural heritage (image analysis and restoration, object recognition and classification, translation and transcription, automatic text analysis, virtual reality and augmented reality, recommended systems for personalized experiences, cultural content analysis and interpretation, heritage digitalization and preservation, multimodal analysis), and supports or creates artistic expressions, and could be used for image, text, Virtual 3D objects, maps, music, audiovisual material.
The Agenda for AI for cultural heritage has great importance in understanding the challenges and the opportunities that AI can address and how cultural heritage could contribute to the development of AI.
Read the report and find more information here.