The European “CrossCult”: Empowering reuse of digital cultural heritage in context-aware crosscuts of European history” project aimed to spur a change in the way European citizens appraise History. It fostered the re-interpretation of what citizens may have learnt in the light of cross-border interconnections among pieces of cultural heritage, other citizens’ viewpoints and physical venues. It sought to increase retention, stimulate reflection and help citizens appreciate their common past and present in a more holistic manner. Technology and mobile apps used and a user-friendly and a cost-efficient tool for experience designers, museum experts and external stakeholders, was developed.

A 3 year-round project starting in March 2016 and ended in 2019

• 11 contractual partners coming from Luxembourg, Spain, Greece, United Kingdom, Malta, France and Italy
• More than 15 complementary European associated partners: venues, cities, non-governmental organizations and SME’s
• 4 flagship pilots across Europe: London, Lugo, Chaves, Epidaurus, Aquae Tauri, Tripolis, Luxembourg City, Valetta

The proposed research aims at exploring the problems inhibiting in the damage detection and conservation interventions assessment of cultural artifacts through the use of NDTs (Non Destructive Testing Techniques). The concept of the project is to develop an Integrated Information Environment (IIE), through the interdisciplinary collaboration in three different research fields which will cover: firstly the research on decay and conservation – restoration interventions assessment, secondly, the research in the digital elaboration analysis and thirdly the research on documentation of cultural artifacts, by means of NDTs. Currently, different teams of researchers, material and electronic engineers, conservators, etc. use NDTs in a non-standardized way, and they are consequently unable to exchange data and knowledge. Cultural artifacts go under multiple conservation interventions through time, however, the records of these interventions cannot be easily retrieved because they are either not stored at all or not stored in a standardized way. The proposed approach is innovative aiming precisely at solving this systemic weakness by creating the standards and the environment which will significantly increase the efficiency of research. This will be achieved through the contribution of information scientists who will introduce the use of open standards for the description of NDTs and their process.

The Hellenic Academic e-books project managed to enrich with new open scientific content in the form of academic text-books. The proposed research aims at exploring the problems inhibiting in the damage detection and conservation interventions assessment of cultural artifacts through the use of NDTs (Non Destructive Testing Techniques). The concept of the project is to develop an Integrated Information Environment (IIE), through the interdisciplinary collaboration in three different research fields which will cover: firstly the research on decay and conservation – restoration interventions assessment, secondly, the research in the digital elaboration analysis and thirdly the research on documentation of cultural artifacts, by means of NDTs. Currently, different teams of researchers, material and electronic engineers, conservators, etc. use NDTs in a non-standardized way, and they are consequently unable to exchange data and knowledge. Cultural artifacts go under multiple conservation interventions through time, however, the records of these interventions cannot be easily retrieved because they are either not stored at all or not stored in a standardized way. The proposed approach is innovative aiming precisely at solving this systemic weakness by creating the standards and the environment which will significantly increase the efficiency of research. This will be achieved through the contribution of information scientists who will introduce the use of open standards for the description of NDTs and their process.