Past Meets Future

Overview

Information Science scholars and practitioners working in Digital Humanities and Cultural Heritage face complex challenges in applying AI, navigating data quality, and enabling meaningful public engagement. Human-AI Interaction (HAI) holds great promise for addressing these challenges—enhancing analysis, discovery, storytelling, and access at scale.

In this second annual installment of the "Past Meets Future" workshop, we bring together researchers and professionals from human-computer interaction, artificial intelligence, digital humanities, and GLAM institutions (galleries, libraries, archives, and museums) to collaboratively explore cutting-edge HAI methodologies and frameworks tailored to these domains.

The 2025 workshop builds on the success of our inaugural event held at ACM IUI in 2024, continuing our interdisciplinary dialogue at the 88th Annual Meeting of ASIS&T in Washington, DC.

Through this full-day, interactive workshop, we aim to:

• Advance understanding of how AI can responsibly and effectively support cultural heritage research and engagement;

• Address ethical and accessibility concerns in working with cultural collections;

• Nurture a growing community at the intersection of information science, HAI, and cultural heritage.
  
  

Together, we will develop tractable solutions and define new research agendas for expanding public engagement with the past through human-centered AI.

Don't miss our previous workshop, the 1st Annual Past Meets Future Workshop, which was held at ACM IUI 2024 in Clemson, S.C., USA.