AI4Culture
AI4Culture is a project aimed at developing the ‘AI4Culture’ platform for the cultural heritage data space. AI4Culture addresses the sector's needs by providing a centralized hub, offering AI tools, datasets, and training materials to enhance collection management, data quality, and visibility for cultural institutions.
AI4Culture is a project aimed at developing the ‘AI4Culture’ platform for the cultural heritage data space. AI4Culture addresses the sector's needs by providing a centralized hub, offering AI tools, datasets, and training materials to enhance collection management, data quality, and visibility for cultural institutions.
The cultural sector has been increasingly embracing Artificial Intelligence (AI) technologies, from content analysis to metadata enrichment. While these technologies hold great promise, they've also brought forth technical and knowledge barriers for Cultural Heritage Institutions (CHIs). AI4Culture is here to bridge this gap by offering easy access AI tools, datasets, and upskilling resources in one centralized place, the AI4Culture platform.
AI4Culture addresses the specific needs of cultural institutions and aggregators, empowering them to incorporate AI technologies into their daily work. The platform will act as a single gateway, offering existing AI tools, datasets, and training materials.
At the heart of AI4Culture is the development of an online open platform - a hub designed to build capacity and foster the application of AI technologies in the Cultural Heritage sector. This platform will work as a key to unlocking a vast pool of AI resources, including deployable tools, open labeled datasets for training AI models, and comprehensive capacity building materials. Dr. Eirini Kaldeli, the project coordinator from the National Technical University of Athens, emphasizes the goal of AI4Culture: to empower Cultural Heritage organizations to enhance metadata, elevate collection quality, promote reusability, and increase visibility across platforms like Europeana.
Sound & Vision role
As a leading partner in the Cultural AI Lab, HAICu and EuropeanaTECH initiatives, NISV invests in knowledge sharing with the heritage sector, supporting its digital transformation and connecting it to the research and creative sector. As one of the core institutions developing the Data Space for Cultural Heritage (Europeana) and the Data Space for Media (TEMS), it is imperative for NISV to look at the potential for AI modules to be integrated in other infrastructures. Within the AI4Culture project, NISV leads the development of the user stories and platform requirements, the evaluation of the user platform and contributes to the guidelines for tools and datasets and production of training materials.
Project Partners
The project will run for 27 months and is led by Ethnicon Metsovion Polytechnion from Greece. The other members of the consortium are:
- Europeana Foundation - The Netherlands
- Datoptron - Greece
- Fondazione Bruno Kessler (FBK) - Italy
- Pangeanic - Spain
- Translated - Italy
- Katholieke Universiteit Leuven (KU Leuven) - Belgium
- European Fashion Heritage Association (EFHA) - Italy
- Stichting Nederlands Instituut Voor Beeld En Geluid (NISV) - The Netherlands
- Austrian Institute Of Technology (AIT) - Austria
- Datable - Belgium
- CrossLang - Belgium