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The Lighthouse of Alexandria on France 5: AI resurrects in 3D a submerged marvel from the ancient world

Translated title. Original: Le phare d'Alexandrie sur France 5 : l'IA ressuscite en 3D une merveille engloutie du monde antique

A France 5 documentary chronicles the digital resurrection of the lighthouse of Alexandria using AI and photogrammetry. Despite only a fraction of the original structure remaining, 22 blocks are being digitally reconstructed to create a precise 3D twin, enabling immersive virtual visits and preserving heritage for future generations.

9+ Bonus Restoration Examples of Protecting History in Turkey - Restoration News

Translated title. Original: Türkiye’de Tarihe Sahip Çıkmanın 9+Bonus Restorasyon Örneği - Restorasyon Haber

The document surveys nine plus one restoration projects across Turkey, detailing efforts to preserve cultural heritage through stone conservation, structural strengthening, and architectural integrity. It covers periods from 2015 to 2024, emphasizing documentation, traditional crafts, and public responsibility, with sites including religious and historic structures that reopened to worship or public visits after restoration.

I Never Met My Naanu. So I Built a Place to Remember Him.🌼 - DEV Community

MemoryDay is an open-source, Dia de los Muertos–inspired digital remembrance altar and family archive. It uses Gemma open-weight AI locally to help families build a printable keepsake book, preserve letters, photos, and memories, and share stories while prioritizing private data and personal preservation.

Workshop: "Artificial Intelligence and Monument Preservation. Who is responsible for what the machine suggests?" – Wüstenrot Foundation

Translated title. Original: Workshop: "Künstliche Intelligenz und Denkmalpflege. Wer verantwortet, was die Maschine vorschlägt?" – Wüstenrot Stiftung

A workshop on AI in monument preservation discusses practical uses, risks, and responsibilities, with industry partners and a program including hands-on sessions, a poster exhibition, and discussions on future scenarios for the field.

RTVE presents 'Telerín', a new way to discover TVE's history with artificial intelligence

Translated title. Original: RTVE presenta 'Telerín', una nueva forma de descubrir la historia de TVE con inteligencia artificial

RTVE launches Telerín, an AI tool to browse TVE's early history using natural-language queries, offering access to magazines, photos, and videos from the 1957–1969 period, with sources linked for verification. The project, tied to the RTVE–University of Zaragoza collaboration, aims to make RTVE's documentary heritage more accessible to researchers and the public, while acknowledging limits from digitization quality and OCR.

🪩 The Unerasable Log File: The Struggle for the Nation’s Living Memory

The document argues that centralized power and commercial platforms erode living memory by deleting or altering historical logs, hindering learning and accountability. It advocates for decentralized, open-source memory as essential to truth, autonomy, and a free society, drawing on Griot traditions and timeless sayings to illustrate the value of consistent, unaltered memory.

Thinking forward when forward is hard to find

Reflecting on a Digital Humanities Futures meeting, the author argues for focused AI discussions and clear reasons to retain human work. AI’s use of archives has also led the author to reconsider open access and the need for communities to control how their knowledge is used.

Artificial intelligence will accelerate the assessment of exhibits at the Peterhof Museum-Reserve. - CNews

Translated title. Original: Искусственный интеллект ускорит оценку экспонатов музея-заповедника «Петергоф» - CNews

A Russian museum-reserve uses an AI tool to estimate and insure its cultural assets, pulling market data to prepare official documents for the Ministry of Culture. Pilot projects and future plans aim to digitize artifacts, enable on-site access, and guide visitors, while ensuring preservation and broader public access.

90% of companies cannot see beyond the third generation

Translated title. Original: ŞİRKETLERİN %90’I ÜÇÜNCÜ NESİLDEN SONRASINI GÖREMİYOR

The document argues that family businesses must preserve not only documents but the underlying decision-making knowledge. It promotes secure, verifiable digital archiving (e-Saklama) and Trusted AI to enable future generations to learn from past actions and sustain the company over many generations.

The Engineer Who Traced Gümüşhane’s 162-Year-Old Photograph: Adem Ezber’s Story Woven with Technology and History

Translated title. Original: Gümüşhane’nin 162 Yıllık Fotoğrafının İzini Süren Mühendis: Adem Ezber’in Teknoloji ve Tarihle Örülü Hikâyesi

Adem Ezber, an engineer and system designer from Gümüşhane, merges technology with history to surface the region's past. He identifies and shares Gümüşhane's oldest photo (1864, by Eloi Beral), and continues to apply his archival research in public service and civil society work.