Funded by the @EU_Commission and @UKRI_News, #ECHOES is developing the #CulturalHeritageCloud to drive innovation, collaboration, and preservation across Europe

Joined December 2023
Through #ECHOES, archaeologists can access advanced tools, collaborate across borders, and ensure that discoveries are preserved and shared through the Cultural Heritage Cloud. 📖 Read more about how ECHOES is shaping the future of archaeology! 🔗 buff.ly/4hp0LOE
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Eight more Sister Projects join the #CulturalHeritageCloud. The first thirteen build components. These eight put the ECCCH into real institutions with real collections, from the British Library to nine WWII memory sites across eight countries. #EchoesEccch
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Two new members of the ECHOES consortium. E-RIHS, the European Research Infrastructure for Heritage Science, joins as a beneficiary and takes on long-term sustainability. Università Telematica Pegaso joins as an affiliated entity of ENCATC. #EchoesEccch #CulturalHeritageCloud
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Friday 23 October, 16:00 to 19:00 CEST: ECHOES webinar for the Italian cultural heritage community, with ICOM Italia, Scuola nazionale del patrimonio and AVICOM. In Italian, full English interpretation. Open to everyone. #EchoesEccch #CulturalHeritageCloud
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The most common question we get: how do I actually take part in this? ECHOES has published a booklet that answers it. How to be part of the #CulturalHeritageCloud sets out the architecture, the data model and how to integrate your resources. Free on Zenodo. #EchoesEccch
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Joining a European infrastructure shouldn't mean ditching your current system! INFINITY connects with platforms like dLibra & Omeka S, filling the Provenance Gap with Multidimensional Knowledge Graphs. 🧠 Check out what Valentina Presutti is building! youtube.com/shorts/RruDaYskv…
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A manuscript never transcribed is, for most purposes, one nobody can read. VTL, an ECHOES application, pairs automated text recognition with expert curation. Newspapers, manuscripts, cuneiform, oral history. Output: searchable, reusable data. #EchoesEccch #CulturalHeritageCloud
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Two conservators can look at the same surface and see different things. Both may be right. OCRA, an ECHOES application, lets one area carry several conflicting interpretations without overwriting anything. Annotation in 3D and relightable 2D. #EchoesEccch #CulturalHeritageCloud
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The first ECHOES training course is live. Introduction to the European Collaborative Cloud for Cultural Heritage, five units, now on DARIAH-Campus. Plus the OntoMatchGame, a card game for learning ontologies. Free and open to anyone. #EchoesEccch #CulturalHeritageCloud
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An infrastructure does not succeed because it is well built. It succeeds because people use it. Today at the ENCATC Congress in Nice we presented A Community-Centred Path to a Sustainable #CulturalHeritageCloud, with ARIADNE and the University of Antwerp. #EchoesEccch
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The first ECHOES training course is live. Introduction to the European Collaborative Cloud for Cultural Heritage, five units, now on DARIAH-Campus. Plus the OntoMatchGame, a card game for learning ontologies. Free and open to anyone. #EchoesEccch #CulturalHeritageCloud
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Nineteen of twenty. Seven more Engagement and Collaboration projects have started, joining the twelve from July. Audiovisual collections, textile heritage, landscape archives, Norway, Iceland. Built for small and medium-sized institutions. #EchoesEccch #CulturalHeritageCloud
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Cataloguing to European standards has meant choosing between doing it properly and doing it at all. CIT, an ECHOES application, is built for smaller institutions: domain standards, AI-assisted metadata, collections searchable across Europe. #EchoesEccch #CulturalHeritageCloud
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ECHOES and ICOM Portugal hosted "ECHOES for Portuguese-speaking Communities" on 16 June, bringing lusophone heritage professionals into the conversation around the #CulturalHeritageCloud. Read more: echoes-eccch.eu/echoes-for-p… #EchoesEccch #DigitalHeritage
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"Innovation is strongest when technology, research and practice evolve together." Giuseppe Zoppo (ENCATC), Ep. 4 of ECHOES Insider Talks. Watch: youtube.com/watch?v=2BTgcBtx… #EchoesEccch #CulturalHeritageCloud
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What should Europe's Cultural Heritage Cloud be? We asked the networks that represent the sector. Their answer: not another platform to adopt, but an invisible layer that makes existing work easier, safer and stronger. Findings 🔗 echoes-eccch.eu/online-focus… #ECHOES #ECCCH
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The cloud must not remain only a technological effort. Ep. 4 of ECHOES Insider Talks: Giuseppe Zoppo (#ENCATC) on bringing cultural managers, researchers and policymakers into the #CulturalHeritageCloud. Watch: youtu.be/2BTgcBtxr6U #EchoesEccch
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Vilnius, 11-13 October 2026. European Museum Conference: AI, cybersecurity, digital transformation in the #CulturalHeritageCloud. Ep. 3 of ECHOES Insider Talks. Watch: youtu.be/HvGMQCXoWS4?si=_8mu… #EchoesEccch
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How do you build a Cloud that 170+ museum networks will use? Ep. 3 of ECHOES Insider Talks: Margherita Sani (NEMO) on bringing the voice of museums into the #CulturalHeritageCloud. Watch: youtu.be/HvGMQCXoWS4 #EchoesEccch
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Marçal (E.C.C.O.) on the #CulturalHeritageCloud opening doors between conservators across countries and fields. Ep. 2 of ECHOES Insider Talks. Watch: youtube.com/watch?v=Rkpw5ozk… #EchoesEccch
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