Events
Event

Ethical and Critical AI for Cultural Heritage: From Foundations to Advanced LLMs

  • Location

    DH Lab (Maison des Sciences humaines) & online

    11, Porte des Sciences

    4366, Esch-sur-Alzette, Luxembourg

  • Topic(s)
    Humanities
  • Type(s)
    Courses and workshops, Free of charge, In-person event, Virtual event

These two-day, beginner-friendly trainings and workshops, developed within the AISTER project that brings computer science, citizen participation and social sciences to explore how artificial intelligence can support the protection and safeguarding of Ukrainian cultural heritage. The programme aims to foster critical AI literacy for cultural heritage while placing ethical and methodological considerations for the preservation of Ukrainian heritage at risk at the centre of discussion. It is designed for higher education staff, researchers, and heritage professionals, and combines critical reflection with practical skills.

No prior technical background is required for the morning trainings. For online participation, please send an email to sofiia.tryzno@ext.uni.lu

Both days will take place at the DH Lab, Luxembourg Centre for Contemporary and Digital History (C²DH), University of Luxembourg.

Programme

  • 9.30

    Welcome & agenda

    Tugce Karatas

  • 9.45

    AISTER project presentation

    Tugce Karatas

  • 10.00

    How to start: Preparing the data 101

    Ellen Charlesworth

  • 10.45

    Introduction to NLP for Cultural Heritage

    Mariia Meleshko-Sudina

  • 11.30

    Coffee break

  • 11.45

    Introduction to Jupyter Notebooks for Reproducible Scientific Research

    Elisabeth Guerard

  • 12.30

    Lunch

  • 13.30

    Embeddings, Vectors, Image Similarity for Heritage Collections

    Ellen Charlesworth

  • 14.30

    AI Image Similarity for Cultural Heritage Collections: AISTER prototype

  • 16.00

    Discussion and Wrap-up

  • 16.30

    End of day 1

  • 9.30

    Welcome & Day 2 overview

  • 9.45

    Advanced LLMs for Humanities Research: Methods and Tools

    Sarah Oberbichler

  • 10.45

    Coffee break

  • 11.00

    AI-enabled Semanticly Enriched Data for Cultural Heritage: SPARRK-UA and STAIHRE projects

    Mariana Ziku, Muriel van Ruymbeke

  • 12.30

    Lunch

  • 13.30

    Pattern Recognition for Cultural Heritage Collections: AISTER prototype

    Tugce Karatas & Yaroslav Zabolotskyi

  • 15.30

    Coffee break

  • 15.45

    Final Remarks and Next Steps

    Tugce Karatas

Speakers

  • Dr. Ellen CHARLESWORTH

    Dr. Ellen CHARLESWORTH

    Postdoctoral researcher

  • Assist. Prof Sarah OBERBICHLER

    Assist. Prof Sarah OBERBICHLER

    Assistant professor in Artificial Intelligence and Data Mining in Digital History

  • Mariia MELESHKO-SUDINA

    Mariia MELESHKO-SUDINA

    Doctoral researcher

  • Elisabeth GUERARD

    Elisabeth GUERARD

    Software Developer

  • Dr. Muriel VAN RUYMBEKE

    Dr. Muriel VAN RUYMBEKE

    Postdoctoral researcher

  • Dr. Tugce KARATAS

    Dr. Tugce KARATAS

    Research scientist

  • Mariana Ziku

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