ABOUT THE WORKSHOP

Cultural heritage embodies the history, traditions, identity, and collective memories of communities. Through its tangible and intangible manifestations, it preserves the cultural legacy of societies while fostering the transmission of knowledge, values, and practices across generations. As such, it plays a fundamental role in strengthening cultural identity, supporting education, and promoting social and historical awareness. Ultimately, cultural heritage is about preserving human memory, ensuring that the stories, knowledge, and values that define societies remain accessible to present and future generations.

Recent advances in Artificial Intelligence (AI) are creating new opportunities for documenting, preserving, analyzing, interpreting, managing, and disseminating cultural heritage. However, the use of AI in Cultural Heritage also raises significant risks and challenges. AI systems may reflect and reinforce biases, cultural stereotypes, or imbalances present in the data used to train them. In light of these challenges, HERIT-AI aims to bring together AI researchers and professionals from museums, archives, libraries, archaeology, conservation, digital humanities, and other Cultural Heritage institutions to foster interdisciplinary collaboration and knowledge exchange. Beyond original research papers, the workshop will provide a forum for discussing real-world experiences, case studies, pilot projects, and ongoing initiatives involving the adoption of AI in Cultural Heritage.

The vision of HERIT-AI is to build an Ibero-American community where Artificial Intelligence and Cultural Heritage evolve together. By encouraging dialogue, co-creation, and interdisciplinary collaboration, the workshop seeks not only to advance AI applications for cultural heritage, but also to inspire the development of a more human-centered, trustworthy, and socially meaningful Artificial Intelligence through one of humanity’s most valuable domains.