Projects

Collaborative Use Case Living Labs Fostering Tools and ResoURces Validation and Adoption in the European Cloud for Next-Gen Digital Heritage Communities Cooperation

The development of the European Collaborative Cloud for Cultural Heritage (ECCCH) alongside complementary initiatives like the Common European Data Space for Cultural Heritage and other thematic research infrastructures under the wider European Open Science Cloud (EOSC) initiative, is set to provide Cultural Heritage Institutions (CHIs) and Cultural and Creative Industries (CCIs) with valuable, open, commonly accessible tools and resources that will fundamentally change the ways the European tangible and intangible cultural heritage in conserved, interconnected, shared, enhanced, re-used and ultimately experienced by the public. CULTURAL.ACT is designed as a real-world proving ground for the ECCCH. It will massively move the validation of components, achieved so far in lab/unit-test settings, into real-life conditions, leveraging on a community of CHIs and CCIs – of diverse types, cultural heritage domains, disciplines, size and expertise – that agreed to collaborate and share experiences in the use of ECCCH tools and resources in core tasks of their own processes and working environments. Several Living Labs (LLs) will enable our stakeholders’ community to test and assess the ECCCH tools and services sharing experiences and collaboration, in the context of various real-world challenging Use Cases (UCs). Offering not just a set of use cases but Living Labs embedded in real cultural institutions and creative communities, CULTUR.ACT will make indispensable steps for the ECCCH’s market take-up. Finally, It will build a participatory, shared understanding of how the ECCCH can improve the way of working, cooperating and co-creating of CHIs and CCIs, and gather evidence-based, reusable knowledge and outcomes with high potentials for transfer and early adoption by other organisations in the same or other cultural heritage sectors, for the benefits of their users whether they are researchers, practitioners, teachers, scholars or the public interested in EU Culture.

ECHOLOT revolutionizes the provision and reuse of high-quality, interoperable Cultural Heritage data with AI-powered enrichment, integrating seamlessly in the European Collaborative Cloud for Cultural Heritage (ECCCH) and empowering the research and creative sectors. Bringing together major initiatives, such as Europeana and the Wikimedia movement, alongside key EU-infrastructure projects, including ECHOES, EOSC, and the Data Space for Cultural Heritage (DS4CH), ECHOLOT contributes innovative, easy-to-use and accessible technical solutions and collaboration models. https://echolot-eccch.eu/