Day 3 of the ARTEMIS meeting on Wednesday, the 17th December consisted of a Networking Event in the morning with presentations from ARTEMIS and five other projects on their collaborations and joint activities followed by a session on EU policies and how the planned collaborations meet these along with how the project impacts can be continued after the funding has finished.
Franco Niccolucci kicked off the meeting with an overview of ARTEMIS and what it can offer other initiatives – in particular there is the RHDT ontology and the Digital Commons which enables additional content to be added to ARTEMIS Knowledge Base. In turn, the project can adopt improvements to the digitisation process from other initiatives. As a first step, a series of joint workshops are planned for 2026 to explore the possible areas of collaboration and how to take this forward.
Five projects then each presented their objectives and areas of opportunity for collaboration.
- ARGUS is focussed on the preventative preservation of built heritage and is using a Digital Twin model with AI on several pilot sites, i.e. this is a very specific example of an application that the ARTEMIS infrastructure would be suitable for.
- 3D-4CH is a Competence Centre for 3D Cultural Heritage and aims to improve skills required to produce high quality digital content. It offers the bridging of “monitoring-to-3D” integration patterns: how to connect diagnostic/monitoring outputs (ARGUS, iPhotoCult) with structured 3D repositories and services (ERIHS-HSDS), and with reactive-twin use cases (ARTEMIS) as well as community and knowledge-transfer mechanisms: shared best practices, practitioner forums, and curated resources to accelerate uptake and reduce duplication of effort across projects (ECHOES ecosystem).
- iPhotoCult will develop services for data processing, management and visualisation, AI supported prediction for degradation and deterioration of CH monuments and artefacts and analytical CH methodologies and protocols in the form of digital ‘Workflows & Flowcharts & Process Diagrams’. The data produced can contribute to ARTEMIS and ECHOES and there is overlap for the use of the tools and services by other projects.
- E-RIHS is the European Research Infrastructure for Heritage Science offering a portfolio of laboratory services (ARCHLAB, FIXLAB, MOLAB) and DIGILAB which connects stakeholders such as data producers and service providers with heritage objects and multi-disciplinary subjects. RICHes is the UK RI for Conservation and Heritage Science (and E-RIHS national node) and the Heritage Science Data Service (HSDS) is its data (and services) catalogue. These services and data will make a valuable contribution to ARTEMIS.
- ECHOES is the project responsible for the setting up of the European Collaborative Cloud for Cultural Heritage and involves several CH umbrella organisations and RIs. ECHOES also co-ordinates several projects funded to develop tools and services for the ECCCH and is responsible for a further 50 or so smaller projects funded through its Cascading Grants programme. As such, ECHOES has a major interest in the integration of all CH-based services and databases.
The second part of the Networking Event focussed on EU Policies and Project synergies. The Horizon Europe Research and Innovation Programme Cluster 2 is targeted at Cultural Heritage and its associated industries with several Calls coming up over the next two years. The Cultural Heritage Cloud (ECCCH) is part of the move towards pan-European co-ordination of the Digital CH landscape. The event concluded with a panel discussion.
