CfP: 4th Italian Workshop on Artificial Intelligence for Cultural Heritage — IAICH26 @AIxIA 2026
Manuel Striani
Dear Colleagues,
We are pleased to invite submissions to the 4th Italian Workshop on Artificial Intelligence for Cultural Heritage (IAICH26), co-located with the 24th International Conference of the Italian Association for Artificial Intelligence AIxIA 2026, which will take place in Perugia (Italy) from 6 to 9 october 2026.
Workshop website: https://ai4ch.di.unito.it/
IAICH26 aims to bring together researchers, practitioners, professionals, policy makers, and stakeholders interested in the application of Artificial Intelligence to Cultural Heritage. The workshop promotes interdisciplinary and multidisciplinary research on tangible and intangible cultural heritage, encouraging the use of AI models, methodologies, and tools for the study, preservation, documentation, accessibility, dissemination, and valorisation of cultural heritage.
The workshop also welcomes contributions addressing ethical, legal, societal, and sustainability issues related to the management, delivery, conservation, and public engagement of cultural heritage.
Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:
- Cultural Heritage ontologies and vocabularies
- Linked Data and Knowledge Graphs for Cultural Heritage
- Multimedia and multilingual data management
- Intangible heritage representation and processing
- Intelligent management systems in Cultural Heritage
- Learning, reasoning, mining, and indexing of CH data
- Large Language Models for Cultural Heritage
- Generative AI for Cultural Heritage
- Deep Learning, Vision Transformers, and Foundation Models for CH analysis
- LLM-based tools for archives, museums, libraries, and heritage collections
- Language technologies and document processing
- Acquisition, conservation, restoration, and long-term preservation
- Workflow management in Cultural Heritage
- Visualization, Extended Reality, gamification, and storytelling
- Accessibility, inclusion, and public engagement in Cultural Heritage
- Museum, exhibition, library, archive, and tourism applications
- Tools for education, documentation, and training
- Societal, professional, ethical, legal, and DRM-related issues
We invite original, unpublished contributions that are not under review elsewhere.
Submission types
- Full papers (8-10 pages)
- Short papers (6 pages)
Suitable for presenting work in progress, software prototypes or extended abstracts of doctoral theses - Project papers (6 pages)
General overviews of research projects
Page limits exclude references.
All papers must be written in English and formatted according to the CEUR-WS style proceedings guidelines.
https://ceur-ws.org/HOWTOSUBMIT.html
All submissions will be peer-reviewed by at least two members of the Program Committee and evaluated according to relevance, originality, significance, soundness, and clarity. The review process will be inspired by Open Science reviewing principles.
Accepted papers will be published in the CEUR-WS Proceedings in the AIxIA series, indexed by Scopus. At least one author of each accepted paper must attend the workshop and present the work.
Important dates
- Paper submission deadline: July 1, 2026
- Notification of acceptance: July 31, 2026
- Camera-ready deadline: August 26, 2026
- Workshop at AIxIA 2026: October 6–9, 2026
The workshop will include paper presentations, an invited talk, and a panel discussion.
For further information, please visit:
https://ai4ch.di.unito.it/
We look forward to receiving your submissions.
Best regards and see you in Perugia!
The IAICH26 Organizing Committee
Rossana Damiano, Manuel Striani, Stefano Ferilli, Gianmaria Silvello, Maria Angela Pellegrino