AI4Culture – An AI platform for the cultural heritage data space

Sunday 2nd March, 2025 - Bruce Sterling

https://pro.europeana.eu/project/ai4culture-an-ai-platform-for-the-cultural-heritage-data-space

ABOUT THE PROJECT

The platform will offer access to a pool of AI-related resources (such as openly labelled datasets for training and testing AI models), a set of deployable and reusable tools and capacity building materials.

Additionally, the project will customise the platform’s components so that they can be reused by cultural heritage institutions in the following scenarios:

multilingual text recognition in scanned documents;
multilingual subtitles generation and validation;
enrichment with information extracted from images and semantic linking;
machine translation for cultural heritage metadata.

All components will be interoperable with the common European data space for cultural heritage to facilitate data sharing and reusability of cultural content as well as strengthen the connection between the data space and cultural heritage institutions.

The project is funded under Digital Europe Programme (DIGITAL) of the European Union.

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