A cross-sector cultural data leadership forum. Senior decision makers keen to engage in high-trust, knowledge-rich conversations are warmly welcomed from:

• National galleries, libraries, archives, and museums

• Research infrastructure (national/large-scale HPC and data storage)

• Cultural content custodians with heritage or commercial mandates

• Digital infrastructure policy makers and peak bodies

• Industry infrastructure sponsors

Converging structural pressures and AI wildfires are reshaping how national heritage sectors preserve, serve, share, govern, and fund cultural data management. Diverse data sources must be reshaped, restructured, and reimagined to enable advantageous AI deployments. Mandates to preserve “everything forever” and enhance public engagement require strategic planning and vision for:

• Century-scale data curation, preservation, access and reuse

• Digitisation at scale

• Balancing demand for access, reuse, and commercialisation with stewardship costs and requirements

• Making data AI-ready whilst safeguarding data sovereignty, provenance, and sensitive information

• Making assets AI-ready to leverage emerging capabilities

• Temporal, environmental, and fiscal sustainability

• Building cyber-resilient systems to safeguard invaluable assets

The rapid increase in preservation complexity and storage requirements, coupled with public expectations for digital access without disruption and myriad AI vectors to use, manipulate and redistribute digital assets requires open conversations backed by solid technical knowhow. At DATAKAMER, we foster cross-domain discussions around the rapidly evolving landscape of unstructured, audiovisual, and digital cultural materials, and emerging architectural, structural, and systems solutions.

To remain viable and robust, solutions must be scalable, sustainable, and raise the status of data as a national asset in the public eye. Responsibly managing, maintaining, and preserving cultural assets into the future requires candid total-cost-of-ownership calculations and authentic asset licencing model discussions. DATAKAMER is an opportunity to contribute to immersive solution-focused discussions in this problem space.