ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE FOR CULTURAL HERITAGE AND DIGITAL LIBRARIES

摘要

Computer science and communication networks have become tools for scientists of humanistic science. The new challenge of computer science is actually to provide scientists and cultural heritage researchers with effective tools for data analysis in order to make easy the enjoyment and the study of cultural heritage and to promote digital heritage and cultural content accessible through archives, museums, and libraries. In this context, artificial intelligence (AI) offers a variety of principles, techniques, methods, systems, and tools to build and to make available effective digital libraries to end-users. Integration of methods, services, systems, and interoperability across different data structures, metadata, and components are key issues that should be addressed by the scientific community. Furthermore, advanced methods for managing information needs of users enable the implementation of collaborative information agents, which autonomously search collections as well as dynamic information streams for content that could enrich users' knowledge profiles, thus supporting a dynamic interaction with and usage of the newly acquired material by the users. Building on such information, content, and knowledge management infrastructures, the virtual information environments should support cognitively efficient access and management of information, content, and knowledge collections as well as information needs and knowledge profiles of naive users. Artificial intelligence together with the Web could, in this case, provide a solution to the problem of access and of massive enjoyment of cultural heritage. In fact, if on the one hand the presence of cultural heritage in a digital form on the Web allows for spreading it over a wide area, on the other hand, artificial intelligence tools could allow users enjoyment of cultural heritage in a personalized way.