Preface to the proceedings of the 3rd Italian Workshop on Italian Artificial Intelligence for Cultural Heritage (IAI4CH 2024) RossanaDamiano rossana.damiano@unito.it University of Torino
Italy
StefanoFerilli stefano.ferilli@uniba.it University of Bari
Italy
ManuelStriani manuel.striani@uniupo.it University of Piemonte Orientale
Italy
GianmariaSilvello gianmaria.silvello@unipd.it University of Padova
Italy
BernardinoSassoli De' Bianchi bernardino.sassoli@unimi.it University of Padova
Italy
University of Milano
Italy
Preface to the proceedings of the 3rd Italian Workshop on Italian Artificial Intelligence for Cultural Heritage (IAI4CH 2024) 1613-0073 F766CFACFD3A1F2BAC8E17C1CB10FC8D GROBID - A machine learning software for extracting information from scholarly documents Artificial Intelligence, Cultural Heritage

In 2022, the AI*IA Steering Board approved the establishment of a Working Group on "Artificial Intelligence for Cultural Heritage. " This workshop represented the first opportunity to gather interested researchers and practitioners and form the working group's initial core. This workshop intends to become a yearly event where the group members will meet to exchange ideas, foster cooperation, and get in touch with the other stakeholders. In this third edition, fourteen contributions were presented from different research groups.

B. Sassoli de' Bianchi) GLOBE http://www.di.unito.it/~rossana/ (R. Damiano); http://lacam.di.uniba.it/~ferilli/ufficiale/ferilli.html (S. Ferilli); https://upobook.uniupo.it/manuel.striani (M. Striani); http://www.dei.unipd.it/~silvello/ (G. Silvello); https://www.unimi.it/it/ugov/person/bernardino-sassoli (B. Sassoli de' Bianchi) Orcid 0000-0001-9866-2843 (R. Damiano); 0000-0003-1118-0601 (S. Ferilli); 0000-0002-7600-576X (M. Striani); 0000-0003-4970-4554 (G. Silvello); 0009-0005-0059-7884 (B. Sassoli de' Bianchi)

The AI*IA workshop on Artificial Intelligence for Cultural Heritage (IA4CH24) brought together researchers, policymakers, professionals, and practitioners to explore the main issues concerning the application of AI to cultural heritage. In particular, this third workshop aimed at fostering interdisciplinary and multi-disciplinary research on tangible and intangible CH, promoting the use of AI models, methodologies, and tools for the study, research, preservation, and dissemination of CH content.

The workshop emphasized the exchange of experiences and transfer of good practices within the vast and varied community revolving around CH computing and AI to extend the results achieved by projects, case studies, and applications at the national and international levels. At the same time, the workshop encouraged discussion on the ethical aspects and sustainability issues involved in the management, delivery, and conservation of cultural heritage, with a specific focus on the involvement of all kinds of stakeholders to represent the different perspectives and communities involved in CH practices. An effort is made to create synergies with other relevant events in the field, such as TPDL (Theory and Practice of Digital Libraries) and IRCDL (The conference on Information and Research science Connecting to Digital and Library science, formerly the Italian Research Conference on Digital Libraries).

The topics of interest for AI4CH24 were: IAI4CH 2024 accepted full papers (10 or more pages), short papers (5-10 pages) suitable for presenting work in progress, software prototypes or extended abstracts of doctoral theses, and project papers (5 pages) for the general overviews of research projects. At least two program committee members reviewed all fourteen accepted papers.

Organization and committees

The organizers and program chairs of the workshop were: