Every historic building, fortification, or industrial complex is really two things at once: a physical space, and a sprawling, messy archive of drawings, records, terminology, and measurements that piles up around it for centuries. Making sense of that archive, so researchers can dive into it and build on it, is an open problem, and so is turning specialised content into something a curious member of the public could actually enjoy exploring.

InterHeritage brings the ISS community together with construction historians and heritage practitioners to map this design space, using Turin's own layered constructional heritage and the EUROGLOSS COST Action (CA24102) as a concrete grounding case. The workshop is organized in cooperation with the Archivio di Stato di Torino.

Structured as a half-day event, InterHeritage features invited speakers, a contribution from the Archivio di Stato, short position papers from the community, and a closing round table where every participant is invited to shape the discussion.

Call for Contributions

We invite submissions of position papers of up to 4 pages (excluding references) in the single-column

ACM manuscript format on interactive surfaces and spaces for construction heritage, understood as the historic buildings, fortifications, and industrial architecture that generate large, scattered archives of drawings, records, terminology, and measurements. Submissions may address research, design, or practical experience helping researchers, domain experts, or the public explore, understand, and disseminate this kind of heritage data.

Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:

Interactive surfaces and spaces for exploring large, heterogeneous construction-heritage datasets
Interfaces that make specialised heritage content legible and engaging for non-specialist and public audiences
Tools and interfaces for collecting, organising, and navigating heritage archives as they grow
Visualisation techniques for construction-heritage data: drawings, records, terminology, measurements
Multilingual and cross-archive approaches to heritage terminology and glossaries
Citizen science and crowdsourcing approaches to heritage data collection
Case studies from construction history, industrial heritage, or archival digitisation
Solutions spanning established visualisation techniques through to AI-assisted and immersive approaches
Evaluation methods for interactive heritage interfaces: usability, engagement, accessibility
Collaborative and hybrid formats connecting technologists, historians, conservators, and communities

The workshop is organized in cooperation with the Archivio di Stato di Torino, and is grounded in the outreach activities of the EUROGLOSS COST Action (CA24102). With authors' consent, accepted position papers will be posted on arXiv as a collected, citable set of workshop proceedings.

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