Building the Cultural Heritage Cloud (ECCCH): EU Horizon project ECHOES public launch

HSSH, with work led by university researcher Jouni Tuominen from HSSH's Methodological Unit, is a partner in a EU Horizon project led by the French National Center for Scientific Research (CNRS), that builds the Cultural Heritage Cloud (ECCCH).

is a shared platform designed to provide heritage professionals and  researchers with access to data, scientific resources, training, and  advanced digital tools tailored to suit their needs. This platform is developed by , a project funded by the European Commission and UK Research and Innovation (UKRI) that brings together fragmented communities of the Cultural Heritage field into a new community around the Digital Commons.

The ECHOES public launch event on Monday the 9th September was a great success with over 300 people attending both in person at the Castle of Chambord, Loir-et-Cher, France and online. The programme consisted of an introduction and context setting (ECCCH) by a representative from the the European Commission, was followed by an overview of the ECHOES project, the objectives and roles of the four "pillars" of the project, and had two keynote presentations: "Interconnecting knowledge: cultural heritage data from a Digital Humanities perspective" (Sally Chambers, Director, DARIAH-EU) and "Project 'Notre-Dame Numérique': Notre-Dame de Paris: a cathedral of digital data and multidisciplinary knowledge for heritage science" (Livio De Luca, Researcher, CNR).