🎓 NUAA Summer School 2026 | 🌍 AI for Digital Humanities and Cultural Heritage

The TALOS AI4SSH Lab (University of Crete), in collaboration with the Nanjing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics (NUAA), co-organized and delivered the 2026 Training School on “Artificial Intelligence (AI) for Digital Humanities (DH) and Cultural Heritage (CH)”.

Held from 13 to 24 July 2026 at the Jiangjunlu Campus of NUAA in Nanjing, China, this intensive 10-day (32-hour) summer course brought together Master’s students across diverse schools and departments at NUAA.
The school provided graduate students with a robust theoretical foundation and practical computational skills for applying AI technologies to humanities research and cultural heritage preservation.

Program

The program combined theoretical lectures, hands-on software exercises, mini-projects, and collaborative final project developments across several key domains:

  • Standards for DH & CH: International standards for historical and cultural data structuring, including applications in Historical Geographic Information Systems (GIS).
  • Natural Language Processing & Generative AI: Exploring NLP techniques, Large Language Models (LLMs), and prompt engineering for unstructured text analysis.
  • Knowledge Graphs & Semantic Web: Querying structured data using SPARQL and constructing domain-specific Knowledge Graphs.
  • Ontology Engineering: Principles of formal conceptualization, hands-on ontology modeling using tools such as Protégé and TEDI, and the practical operationalization of Ontoterminology.

Student evaluation was based on continuous classroom participation, a team-based final project report, and a comprehensive final assessment.

Teaching Experts

The training school was led by an interdisciplinary team of educators from TALOS Lab and NUAA:

  • Prof. Christophe Roche: Professor in Artificial Intelligence, ERA Chair Professor, University of Crete & University Savoie Mont Blanc
  • Dr. Maria Papadopoulou: Assistant Professor in Digital Humanities & Classics, TALOS-AI4SSH & Department of Philology, University of Crete
  • Dr. Liu Hui (Luisa): Associate Professor, College of Foreign Languages, Nanjing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics (NUAA)