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 Commission and UK Research and Innovation (UKRI) the project, ECHOES will bring together fragmented communities of the Cultural Heritage field into a new community.
The project will surpass basic digitisation, aiming to spark a transformation in the field through a holistic approach.
ECHOES will integrate existing knowledge about tangible and intangible heritage artefacts, creating a collaborative digital environment for analysing heritage assets, facts, and phenomena.
In this context, users can develop their interpretations to interact with, manipulate and enrich Digital Twins, fostering the creation of new, collaboratively developed scientific knowledge.
The ECCCH is built on Open Access and Open Science principles, promoting inclusivity and democratising access to knowledge and digital assets for all.
This digital ecosystem will facilitate 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.
