The European Cloud for Heritage OpEn Science (ECHOES) project aims to establish the European Collaborative Cloud for Cultural Heritage (ECCCH), a shared platform to provide heritage professionals and researchers with access to data, scientific resources, training, and advanced digital tools tailored to suit their needs. Funded by the European Commision and UK Research and Innovation (UKRI) the project, ECHOES will bring together fragmented communities of the Cultural Heritage field into a new community around the Digital Commons.
The project will create a digital environment that enables the digitisation of existing knowledge and the collaborative analysis of cultural heritage assets, facts, and phenomena. In this environment, actors – whether humans or Artificial Intelligence – can develop their interpretations, thereby enriching the knowledge of cultural heritage and their surroundings.
The digital environment proposed by ECHOES will empower users to interact with, manipulate and enrich Digital Twins, fostering the creation of new, collaboratively developed scientific knowledge. The ECCCH built by ECHOES is anchored in the principles of Open Science, which promotes inclusion and democratises access to knowledge and digital assets for all. This digital environment will allow the creation of a new generation of heritage objects, the Digital Commons, which are semantically rich and collectively produced. Upon completion, ECHOES will provide a unified platform to integrate the outcomes of EU and national projects related to Cultural Heritage.
The ADS is involved in multiple work packages within ECHOES including Capacity building and training (WP5), Setting the Cloud environment (WP6), Cloud governance (WP10) and Long term Sustainability (WP11).
