Digital Cultural Heritage in the Era of AI and Extended Reality

h. 9 Introduction and keynote:

• 3D services for cultural heritage institutions: digitisation, storage, sharing and reusing. Introduction by Antonella Fresa, Photoconsortium International Association, EUreka3D-XR project coordinator.

• Sustainable digital heritage practice is Europe’s digital future in the making. Keynote speech by Professor Isto Huvila, Uppsala University.

Question and Answer Time

h. 10.10 Break

h. 10.40 EUreka3D-XR Scenarios and tools demonstration:

• Virtual Girona: Discovering the Historical Walls, by David Iglesias Franch, Center for Image Research and Dissemination – CRDI Ajuntament de Girona, and Marco Pappalardo, Swing:It – Software Engineering Italia

• The AR narrative of the hidden side of Bibracte archaeological site, by Agathe Le Riche Maugis, Bibracte, and Eirini Kaldeli, National Technical University of Athens

• The creation of a new life of Saint Neophytos Enkleistra in Cyprus in the virtual space, by Marinos Ioannides, Drew Baker, UNESCO Chair on Digital Cultural Heritage at the Cyprus University of Technology, and Nedjma Cadi, MIRALab

Question and Answer Time

Conclusions

h. 13.00 Lunch