Digital humanities and cultural heritage in AI and IT-enabled environments

This track is the first output in Digital Humanities within AISoLA and, while its contributions span a range of diverse topics and approaches, it provides a good representation of the state of the art in the field, stemming from the interdisciplinary collaborations in the DBDIrl project and from the Great Leap COST Action that started in September 2023. It also underpins an ambitious research agenda arising from these collaborations, which aims to foster further international work on data interoperability. The papers discuss the challenges faced by both computing and historical sciences when addressing on one side some of the most pressing issues of data access, preservation, conservation, harmonisation across national datasets, and governance, and on the other side the opportunities and threats brought by AI and machine learning to the advancement of reasoning, classification and rigorous data analytics.