Advances in digital and computer technologies have profoundly changed our relationship with cultural heritage. Once limited to documentation and archiving, these technologies now offer new ways to enhance, mediate, and transmit cultural assets, whether tangible or intangible. They also fundamentally alter the way heritage is studied. This transformation initially took the form of mass digitization of heritage collections, including artworks, manuscripts, archives, archaeological objects, and architecture. This step created permanent digital repositories accessible online by a wide audience, promoting the democratization of culture. Innovations followed rapidly, leading to increasingly immersive and interactive research methods and heritage mediation experiences. The rapid development of natively digital creations, such as generative artworks and virtual environments, challenges our traditional concepts and gives rise to new intangible heritages that we must learn to understand, preserve, and transmit to future generations.

Generative artificial intelligence opens promising horizons, capable of creating images, texts, sounds, and videos from scratch. It offers fascinating perspectives for cultural heritage and research. It could enable the virtual restoration of damaged or lost artworks based on existing fragments. AI-powered virtual guides could offer renewed and captivating visit experiences in realistic or immersive 3D contextualized environments. Digital technology also transforms our access to tangible cultural heritage through photorealistic 3D reproductions generated by AI. These offer new enhancement perspectives for heritage sites and objects that are difficult to access or too fragile to move. They resemble hybrid duplications, halfway between the real and the virtual. AI could help revive intangible heritage, with virtual storytellers and interpreters transmitting ancient oral traditions. It could contribute to preservation and transmission by regenerating ephemeral artistic performances (theater, dance, music, etc.) from archives, allowing them to be relived.

Blockchain-based distributed data registers are a major asset for ensuring the authenticity, traceability, and property rights of cultural goods in the digital age. This technology enables the creation of tamper-proof, decentralized databases listing certified metadata of heritage objects and artworks. For tangible cultural heritage, blockchain provides a means to effectively combat illicit trafficking by establishing inviolable "digital passports" tracing the complete transaction history of each piece. It also secures the management of intellectual property rights associated with artistic creations. As for intangible heritage natively created by generative AI software, blockchain is essential for certifying the origin, uniqueness, and copyright of these virtual works. Non-fungible tokens (NFTs) inscribed immutably in the blockchain become their "titles of ownership." However, to ensure the interoperability and longevity of these decentralized certification infrastructures, efforts must be made to harmonize technical and legal standards. The adoption of open and universal standards is crucial for enabling the exchange, portability, and long-term archiving of heritage data within blockchain distributed registers.

The symposium is open (but not limited) to the following themes:

The official languages are French and English, for articles and presentations.

Submission of a proposal will follow the dates and process below:

Full articles submitted to the conference will be double-blind reviewed. The program and scientific committee will issue acceptance or rejection notifications following this phase for oral presentation at the conference.

1. For all oral presentations at the conference: Publication of proceedings in digital format as a one-page abstract (Title, affiliation, and abstract in French and English).
2. The program and scientific committee will subsequently select the best articles for publication in a collective work in digital and print format post-conference, with the highest-rated papers deemed publishable without significant modifications. Other articles may be considered for publication in one or two online journal issues (associated with the conference) dedicated to the theme of heritage.

Registration (before October 31)

Registration is mandatory for at least one of the authors of the accepted presentation. The author commits to paying the conference participation fees.

If no registration, the presentation will be permanently removed from the program.

Participation Fees (before October 31)

Payment terms and participation fees are as follows:

Participation fees include:

• Conference participation
• 1 copy of the conference proceedings
• Coffee breaks

Payment methods:

• Nasreddine BOUHAI, CITU-Paragraphe, University Paris8, France
• Khaldoun ZREIK, CITU-Paragraphe, University Paris8, France

• Nasreddine BOUHAI, CITU-Paragraphe, University Paris8, France
• Khaldoun ZREIK, CITU-Paragraphe, University Paris8, France

• Naoufel ABBES, TiiM, École Supérieure des Sciences et Technologies du Design de Tunis, Université de Manouba, Tunisie
• Julien ANGELINI, Università di Corsica Pasquale Paoli, France
• Ghislaine AZEMARD, Chaire UNESCO ITEN, Paris, France
• Roberto BARTHOLO, Université Fédérale de Rio de Janeiro, Brésil
• Vincent BECUE, Université de Mons, Belgique
• Riadh BEN ACHOUR, Institut Supérieur des Arts et Métiers de Tataouine, Tunisie
• Cédric BOUDJEMA, Université de Paris 8, France
• Philippe BONFILS, Université de Toulon, France
• Nasreddine BOUHAI, CITU-Paragraphe, Université de Paris 8, France
• Hafida BOULEKBACHE, DeVisu, Université Polytechnique Hauts de France, France
• Stéphane CHAUDIRON, Université de Lille, France
• Stéphane CARO, MICA, Université de Bordeaux Montaigne, France
• Tahar GHNAYA, Institut Supérieur des Arts et Métiers de Tataouine, Tunisie
• Ramzi HASSAN, School of Landscape Architecture at the Norwegian University of Life Sciences, Norway
• Marinos IOANNIDES, Cyprus University of Technology, Cyprus
• Nadia KAAOUAS, Hassan II University - Casablanca, Maroc
• Ioannis KANELLOS, IMT Atlantique, Brest, France
• Sylvestre Kouassi KOUAKOU, Cheikh Anta Diop de Dakar University, Sénégal
• Panagiotis KYRIAKOULAKOS, University of the Aegean, Greece
• Jean-Charles LAMIREL, Université de Strasbourg, France
• Patrizia LAUDATI, SicLab Méditerranée, EUR CREATES, Université Côte d’Azur, France
• Michel MEIMARIS, University of Athens, Greece
• François MELA, Université Paris 13, France
• Sylvie LELEU-MERVIEL, DeVisu, Université Polytechnique Hauts de France, France
• Anna LEONE, Durham University, United Kingdom
• Khedidja OULEM, Université de Tebessa, Algérie
• Emilio PRADO, Université Autonome de Barcelone, Espagne
• Matthieu QUINIOU, CITU-Paragraphe, Université de Paris 8, France
• Daniel RAICHVARG, Université de Bourgogne, France
• Amjad RATROUT, Arab American University, Palestine
• Neila RHOUMA, TIMM, ESSTED, Université de Manouba, Tunisie
• Fabrice ROCHELANDET, Université de la Sorbonne, Paris, France
• Muath SABHA, Arab American University, Palestine
• Anis SEMLALI, American University of Ras Al Khaimah, UAE
• Marta SEVERO, Université Paris 10, France
• Pascal SIMEON, Université de Mons, Belgium
• Modestos STAVRAKIS, University of the Aegean, Greece
• Federico TAJARIOL, Université de Franche-Comté, France
• Mateo TRELEANI, Université de Lille, France
• Marie-Michèle VENTURINI, Università di Corsica Pasquale Paoli, France
• Xenophon ZABULIS, Institut of Computer Sciences, Foundation of Research and Technology Hellas, Greece
• Ikram ZEKRI, Institut Supérieur des Arts et Métiers de Tataouine, Tunisie
• Khaldoun ZREIK, CITU-Paragraphe, Université de Paris 8, France (HIS conferences general chair)

Conference Venue:

Campus Condorcet - Conference Center, Paris - Aubervilliers

Transportation: (to be announced)

Hotel Suggestions: (to be announced)

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Université Paris 8
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