We invite extended abstracts presenting empirical studies, design frameworks, deployed workflows, and critical reflections that treat human-centred AI not as a downstream deployment concern but as a first-order research question for digital curation. Contributions bridging AI research, human-computer interaction, digital humanities, and cultural heritage practice are especially welcome, as are contributions from early-career researchers, practitioners without a traditional research publication record, and community-based scholars.
We welcome contributions across four broad areas. The examples below are indicative; other work engaging seriously with the workshop’s central concerns will be considered.
Design frameworks and interaction patterns for curator-facing AI systems: cataloguing tools, metadata enrichment, description generation, transcription (HTR/ATR), entity linking and disambiguation, retrieval augmentation, and interfaces that make model uncertainty and provenance legible.
Empirical studies of curator experience with AI-augmented workflows: user studies, ethnographies of AI adoption in libraries, archives, and museums, longitudinal evaluations, cross-institutional comparisons, and studies of skills change and professional identity.
Methodological and critical reflections on curator agency, expertise, and craft in AI-mediated pipelines: theorising the “loop” beyond oversight and review, evaluation frameworks that go beyond model accuracy, and situating human-centred AI within the histories of librarianship, archival theory, and museum studies.
Community, participatory, and governance approaches to AI in cultural heritage: engagement with source communities, ethical governance frameworks, questions of consent and attribution in AI training data, and skills development and capacity building for AI-augmented curation.
A brief workshop report synthesising the day’s discussions and the outputs of the collaborative activity will be prepared by the organisers and submitted to an indexed journal.
Authors of accepted abstracts will additionally be invited to publish their work, at no cost to authors, as a chapter in the workshop’s book of abstracts, published online with an ISBN and with open access.
At least one author of each accepted abstract must register for the workshop day of IDCC 2027 and present in person.
All deadlines are 23:59 AoE (Anywhere on Earth).
Submission deadline: 11 December 2026
Notification to authors: 15 January 2027
Camera-ready due: 22 January 2027
Workshop: 9 February 2027 (morning), Iscte, Lisbon