ChIA – Accessing and Analysing Cultural Images with New Technologies - aims to engage and test new technologies against the background of a selected dataset of food images for the benefit of accessing and analysing cultural data. Technologically the project focuses on composing existing and new ontologies and thesaurus in a novel way to support a thorough description of the major aspects of the selected domain, building a knowledge graph using semantic annotation of the cultural images, utilising existing visual analytics tools to detect and represent the cultural contents of the target images, and building state-of-the-art search retrieval tools by incorporating Chatbots that interact with the users of the system. The project incorporates and therewith enhances and reuses data and knowledge of the DARIAH infrastructure and opens up the data of Europeana and European Infrastructures for enhanced search and knowledge generation for researchers and citizens.