Call for proposals and participation
AI Applications in Digital Heritage: Regional Workshop @NTU-ACDC Singapore
June 24 to 26, 2026 + June 23 pre-workshop visits to heritage institutions

Organized by Asian Centre for Digital Cultures, Nanyang Technological University
Website: https://www.ntu.edu.sg/hass/research/asian-centre-for-digital-cultures
Program chair (contact): Chris Khoo (chriskhoo@pmail.ntu.edu.sg)

Workshop objectives

Background: Current digital heritage system interfaces are item-centric—displaying descriptions of individual items one at a time. To enable research, learning, entertainment and casual exploration of heritage resources by public users, digital heritage systems need to support user browsing by relationships between resources, offer analytical and AI functions, and help users to integrate information and synthesize stories. Recent developments in Generative AI, LLM, cloud services and other digital technologies offer opportunities for developing new types of systems, interfaces and applications to support these goals.

Objectives: The objectives of the workshop are:

  1. To explore promising AI applications and digital technologies that can be applied to heritage materials and implemented in digital heritage systems—to support research, learning, entertainment and exploration by researchers, students/teachers and the public.
  2. To share practical skills in selected AI technologies and their application to digital heritage content and systems.
  3. To develop regional collaborative projects in the area of digital heritage.
  4. To discuss how the Asian Centre for Digital Cultures at NTU can support such collaborative projects.

Focus & motivation: The focus of the Workshop will be on practical AI methods and skills that can be applied to heritage materials and implemented in digital heritage systems and applications. The project presentations on Day 1 of the workshop will focus on lessons drawn from recent/current heritage projects in Asia. The tutorials in Day 2 and 3 will seek to impart practical skills. It is hoped that the workshop will have a tangible impact on digital heritage research and development in Singapore and in the region.

Target audience
The target audience are researchers and professionals working on digital heritage (interpreted broadly) in Asia. This includes the staff of GLAM institutions (galleries, libraries, archives and museums) and university faculty, researchers and graduate students.

Venue
Specific workshop venues to be announced later

Registration
Workshop registration is expected to open on March 1, 2026.
Please join this Google Group for workshop updates: https://groups.google.com/g/ai-digital-heritage
If you don’t have a Google account, email the organizer (chriskhoo@pmail.ntu.edu.sg) to add you to the mailing list:

Call for presentation proposals (Deadline March 1, 2026)
If you are involved in an interesting digital heritage project and wish to share your work on Day 1 of the workshop, please submit a preliminary abstract (300-500 words) to: chriskhoo@pmail.ntu.edu.sg
Authors of accepted proposals will be asked to submit an extended abstract or short paper at a later date. It is hoped that the completed papers can be published in a special issue of LIBRES ejournal.

The proposal should be on an area of digital heritage combined with an AI or digital issue such as:

  1. Web or mobile application
  2. Innovative interface design
  3. AI application
  4. Machine learning, analytics or innovative text processing
  5. User-system interaction

Program outline

  • Pre-workshop day (June 23, 2026): Visits to heritage projects and institutions in Singapore
  • Day 1 (June 24, 2026): Research and Project Presentations by researchers and heritage professionals in the region (12 to 14 presentations)
  • Day 2 & 3 (June 25-26, 2026): Hands-on tutorials on AI technologies and applications (4 tutorials)
    • Tutorial 1 (June 25, morning): Knowledge graph, graph database, graph visualization
    • Tutorial 2 (June 25, afternoon): API development using Python/Flask to retrieve and integrate information from databases, the Web and AI services (e.g. GPT-5), and using GenAI services to convert natural language queries to database query languages and to summarize search results.
    • Tutorial 3 (June 26, morning): Video analysis, using dance videos as case study.
    • Tutorial 4 (June 26, afternoon): Image analysis and multimodal AI -OR- Applications of Generative AI and Embedding Vectors in information extraction and Retrieval Augmented Generation (RAG).

Participants may attend selected days of the Workshop.

Number of Participants

  • Max 100 participants for Day 1 presentations
  • Max 50 participants for Day 2 and Day 3 tutorials

Workshop fee
Early-bird registration until May 31, 2026: $220 for all 3 days — waived for workshop presenters (1 presenter per paper).

Single-day registration:

  • $50 for Day 1 Presentations
  • $100 for Day 2 Tutorials
  • $100 for Day 3 Tutorials

The workshop fee includes lunch and 2 tea-breaks