Data, cultural heritage and memory

An evening talk on how AI is changing the study, protection and promotion of cultural heritage, hosted by VIVE | Vittoriano e Palazzo Venezia at the Collegio Romano, part of the series opening the Biblioteca Maior to the city. The speaker is Arianna Traviglia, who coordinates the Centre for Cultural Heritage Technology at the Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia. The published scope: AI on satellite imagery to find buried archaeological sites and traces of illegal digging, automatic transcription of historical manuscripts, reading inscriptions on ancient surfaces, pulling condition data about heritage out of large datasets, and robots and physical AI for documenting sites. Curated by Alfonsina Russo and Edith Gabrielli. Runs 18:00 to 20:00 in Italian. Free, registration on Eventbrite. Why go: applied computer vision and NLP on a problem Rome has more of than anywhere, explained by the person running the lab. It's pitched at a general audience, so expect scope over depth. Best for data and ML people curious about heritage applications.