A small international group of invited participants will discuss the importance of the critical use of Artificial Intelligence and other innovative solutions for relating data, data types and knowledge bases from different disciplinary siloes. As part of defining the future of cultural heritage studies this workshop brings together specialists from museological, academic and entrepreneuria backgrounds to shape the desires, requirements and challenges. This takes place within the tension field between the different ways that ontology is understood and used in computer science, the digital humanities, philosophy and anthropology and the effects this has in understanding complex humanistic and scientific projects. The use of the word ontology for controlled vocabularies and linked open data is very different from the anthropological and philosophical use of the term as the fundamental understanding of being. Critical Intelligence proposes the involvement of different, including indigenous, ontologies and epistemologies to critically assess our use of innovation to study the human past and its use in the present.

Programme
14.00 Willeke Wendrich, Welcome and Introduction: Why Critical Intelligence?
14.30 Christian Greco, Museums, new technologies for a renewed epistemological approach
15.00 Heleen Wilbrink, AI and Ontologies at the Archives
15.30 So Miyagawa, Chatting in a dead language: THOTH AI
16.00 Fabian Suchanek, Language models and Knowledge Graphs
16.30 Robert Sanderson, Enriching Cross-Domain Knowledge Graphs with AI
17.00 Discussion with panel and audience
18.00 Reception

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