AI for Cultural Heritage Hub (ArCH)

Description

Cambridge’s GLAM institutions (galleries, libraries, archives, and museums) house millions of objects from across the globe, representing an unparalleled repository of cultural and natural history. However, challenges such as analogue formats, handwritten records, fragmented objects, multilingual sources and complex surfaces make much of this data difficult to access.

To address these challenges, the AI for Cultural Heritage Hub (ArCH) will deploy the convening power of Cambridge’s distributed network of collections to create a secure workspace and Community of Practice to empower non-technical users (practitioners and academics) to analyse cultural heritage data securely with AI tools. By encouraging collaboration among curators, researchers, IT professionals, and AI experts, the new hub will prototype adaptive AI solutions to enhance understanding of collections and identify a selection of AI tools to address these problems.

Currently active

Yes

Offers funding

No, this infrastructure does not provide funding.

Founding year

2025

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University affiliation(s)

University of Cambridge
Cambridge

Additional Partnerships

Fitzwilliam Museum, University Museum of Zoology, Scott Polar Research Institute, University Herbarium, Department of Applied Mathematics and Theoretical Physics, ai@cam, Accelerate Programme for Scientific Discovery, Schmidt Sciences, Better Images of AI