Driving digital transformation in Cultural Heritage Institutions - Session 3

Описание: Good practices and experiences for creation, access and re-use - Frederik Temmermans and Eirini Kaldeli

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.

About the speakers

Frederik Temmermans is guest professor in multimedia at the Department of Electronics and Informatics (ETRO), associated with the Vrije Universiteit Brussel and imec. His research focuses on media privacy, security, authenticity, and integrity. He has been involved in various research projects in the medical, mobile, and cultural domains. Frederik is an active member of the JPEG standardization committee (ISO/IEC JTC1/SC29/WG1) where he currently chairs the JPEG Systems and Integration subgroup and leads the JPEG Trust (ISO/IEC 21617) standardization activities. Frederik is also co-founder of the VUB spin-off company Universum Digitalis and member of the Photoconsortium Steering Committee.

Eirini Kaldeli is a senior researcher at the Artificial Intelligence and Learning Systems Laboratory of the National Technical University of Athens. She is also co-founder of the university’s spinoff Datoptron. Her most recent work focuses on the design of techniques and tools that make use of state-of-the-art digital technologies for data management, information retrieval, and crowdsourcing in the field of cultural heritage and beyond. She holds a PhD from the University of Groningen and an MSc in AI from the University of Edinburgh. She is the coordinator of the AI4Culture project and has led several projects in the intersection of IT and cultural heritage, including the CultureLabs Horizon RIA project and the CEF projects EuropeanaTranslate and Crafted.