Grants

AI4Europeana proposes the development of the AI4Culture platform: an online capacity building hub for the application of Artificial Intelligence (AI) technologies in the Cultural Heritage (CH) sector. The platform offers access to a pool of AI-related resources: (i) a set of deployable and reusable AI tools; (ii) open labelled datasets amenable for training and testing AI models; and (iii) capacity building materials. The AI4Culture platform will be populated with an initial suite of AI tools, offered as deployable software packages as well as services. To this end, a number of existing digital components will be customised, interfaced, and packaged, so that they can be readily used by CH institutions in the context of representative and real-life application scenarios: multilingual text recognition in scanned documents; multilingual subtitles generation and validation; enrichment with information extracted from images and semantic linking; and machine translation for CH metadata. Furthermore, said components will be interoperable with the Europeana Core Service platform. The project also processes and makes available under open licences a range of datasets with human-produced or -validated annotations to various CH-related resources, including handwritten documents, images, and CH metadata. This way, AI4Culture boosts the availability of relevant materials from (and for) Galleries, Libraries, Archives, and Museums (GLAMs) to be used for training, validating and evaluating AI tools. Finally, the project will produce a multifarious range of materials for upskilling, including Wikis, tutorials, step-by-step guides and best practices, as well as a series of capacity building events with hand-on sessions and a hackathon. With this comprehensive offering, the project has a clear and strong value proposition for the CH sector, helping it to overcome the barriers that have prevented a broad adoption of AI technologies so far and thereby innovating the Data Space for CH.

Partners

1. STICHTING EUROPEANA 

2. DATOPTRON I.K.E. 

3. FONDAZIONE BRUNO KESSLER 

4. TRANSLATED SRL 

5. CROSSLANG NV

6. DATABLE BV

7. PANGEANIC-B. I. EUROPA SLU

8. KATHOLIEKE UNIVERSITEIT LEUVEN

9. EUROPEAN FASHION HERITAGE ASSOCIATION

10. STICHTING NEDERLANDS INSTITUUT VOORBEELD EN GELUID

11. AIT AUSTRIAN INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY GMBH

STIRData Action proposes the use of Linked Data and semantic technologies as the means to overcome the technical barriers that hamper the reuse of open data, namely, poor quality and limited availability of Open Data. In particular, the Action seeks to assist data providers through a set of data specifications, guidelines, and an accompanying harmonisation toolset for streamlining and facilitating the process of enriching and publishing company data as Linked Data.

An online platform for searching, navigating, synthetically analysing, and visualising company-related open data content coming from different sources in a homogeneous way will also be developed, supporting a number of cross-border and cross-domain reuse scenarios. These sources will include company registries, sources discoverable via the European Data Portal (EDP) and other open data platforms. The offered functionalities will be exposed via an open Application Programming Interface (API), so that they can be reused by other digital public services or applications developed by data and ICT companies.

In particular, during the project lifetime, data referring to at least 1.5 million companies from at least five different countries will be published as Linked Data and become searchable and navigable via the STIRData platform. The enhanced datasets will be also published to the national open data portals of Greece (data.gov.gr), Norway (data.norge.no), and Czechia (data.gov.cz) so that they can be harvested by the EDP.

The overall STIRData approach, technical tools, and online services will be of a general purpose and can be uptaken to facilitate harmonisation and reusability of open data in other domains.

Partners

1. National Technical University of Athens (NTUA)

2. UNIVERZITA KARLOVA (CU) - established in Czech Republic

3. Masaryk University (MUNI) - established in Czech Republic

4. Registerenheten i Brønnøysund (BRREG) - established in Norway

5. DIGITALISERINGSDIREKTORATET (Digdir) - established in Norway

6. General Secretariat of Digital Governance and Simplification of Procedures of Ministry of Digital Governance (MINDIGITAL) - established in Greece

7. Athens chamber of commerce and industry (ACCI) - established in Greece

8. THINKCODE LTD (ThinkCode) - established in Cyprus