The Cultural Heritage Cloud, or European Collaborative Cloud for Cultural Heritage (ECCCH), is a European Union initiative to create a digital infrastructure connecting cultural heritage researchers and professionals across the EU. It will develop specific digital collaborative tools for the sector while removing barriers for smaller and remote institutions.
The goal is to help cultural heritage institutions, research organisations, and other professional organisations of all kinds and sizes work with their digital objects in a more visible, interconnected, harmonised, and informed way, successfully coping with the challenges the digital transition poses to the sector, and seizing its opportunities.
The Cultural Heritage Cloud will add a new digital dimension to cultural heritage preservation, conservation, restoration, and enhancement by providing cutting-edge technologies, such as digitization of artefacts or research on artworks.
The implementation of this initiative has begun with the EU-funded project ECHOES – European Cloud for Heritage OpEn Science, which started on 1 June 2024.
Funded by the Digital Europe Programme, the common European data space for cultural heritage is an EU flagship initiative that accelerates the sector’s digital transformation and fosters the creation, access, and reuse of heritage data.
The vision for the European Open Science Cloud (EOSC) is to establish a system for European researchers to store, share, process, analyse, and reuse data within and across disciplines and borders.
Read more about the nexus between the Cultural Heritage Cloud, the common European data space for cultural heritage, and the European Open Science Cloud in this factsheet published by the European Commission.
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