The Saint George on a Bike project kicked off the EuropenaTech x AI webinar series on Saint George’s Day, 23 April 2021 with a webinar about the project´s activities in improving the quality and quantity of open metadata associated with European Cultural Heritage imagery with ML. This series is organised by EuropeanaTech Community and Europeana Foundation and aims to explore the opportunities and challenges of working with Artificial Intelligence in the cultural heritage and arts sector. The webinars take place every two weeks and each session introduces a new project or research topic related to AI in the cultural heritage sector.
There were 93 attendees in the Saint George on a Bike webinar. Overall, the event covered different kinds of audiences such as academic professors and researchers in data mining, data science and AI; cultural heritage professionals working with metadata, data scientists and digital library project managers. As a secondary audience, cultural heritage professionals from museums and archives also attended.
Maria-Cristina Marinescu, Cedric Bhihe, Artem Reshetnikov, Quim More from the Computer Applications in Science & Engineering Department of the Barcelona Supercomputing Center, along with Albin Larsson from Europeana and Larissa Borck from the Sörmlands museum presented in the event.
The speakers introduced the Saint George on a Bike project and its objectives as well as the challenges it faces, especially with respect to available data sources. They illustrated how AI image analysis technologies such as the ones developed by Saint George on a Bike can contribute to better understanding and exploiting the past and cultural heritage and presented highlights and demos. Furthermore, different demos about object detection, language models and bounding box analysis were also conducted. Finally, they also introduced the crowdsourcing platform to seek contribution and support for the project.
At the end of the webinar, there was a pop quiz for all attendees with questions related to the content of the webinar itself and also about Saint George on a Bike. It was very much appreciated since these kinds of actions generate interaction with the audience.
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