Advanced Research and eXploration for Interoperable Value in European Heritage

ARXIVE revolutionizes the documentation, analysis, and dissemination of cultural heritage objects by developing cutting-edge tools and methodologies integrated into the European Collaborative Cloud for Cultural Heritage. Addressing fragmented on-site workflows and the challenges of preserving both tangible and intangible cultural assets, ARXIVE introduces a semantic archival system that provides advanced solutions for annotating evolving digital twins. These tools empower cultural heritage professionals to create semantically rich, context-aware documentation while streamlining processes for research, preservation, and dissemination. The project enhances the accessibility, organization, and contextualization of cultural heritage objects by integrating high-fidelity 3D reconstructions, granular annotations, AI-powered annotated bibliography tools, and narrative-building applications. It ensures interoperability with established standards principles, fostering seamless collaboration and long-term sustainability.

Through two Use-Case Pilots (Greece and Portugal) the tools will be tested and validated in real-world environment, a through a comprehensive Financial Support to Third Parties program to funding and accelerating at least twenty projects via two diverse Open Calls, ARXIVE will engage different stakeholders, promote knowledge sharing and capacity building, and foster the scalability and wider adoption of ECCCH tools. Leveraging the expertise of a multidisciplinary consortium of nine partners from five countries, ARXIVE establishes strong synergies with ECCCH initiatives to amplify the impact of European cultural heritage. By advancing cutting-edge methodologies and fostering collaboration, ARXIVE positions European heritage at the forefront of innovation, ensuring its preservation and relevance for future generations.

ARXIVE aims to transform how European cultural heritage is documented, analysed, shared, and preserved by developing state-of-the-art digital tools and interoperable methodologies. Its mission is to support cultural heritage professionals in capturing richer, more context-aware data about heritage objects, and to ensure that this information is interoperable, sustainable, and widely accessible, enhancing research, preservation practice, and public engagement.

• Develop Advanced Digital Tools
  Create innovative tools and methodologies integrated within the European Collaborative Cloud for Cultural Heritage (ECCCH) for better documentation and semantic annotation of both tangible and intangible cultural heritage. 
• Improve Documentation and Interoperability
  Provide cultural heritage professionals with capabilities for semantically rich, context-aware documentation, integrating 3D reconstructions, annotation systems, AI-based bibliography tools, and narrative construction applications. 
• Support Collaboration and Standards Adoption
  Ensure the solutions are interoperable with existing standards and principles, facilitating collaboration across institutions and long-term data sustainability. 
• Validate Solutions in Real-World Pilots
  Test and validate the tools through two use-case pilots in Greece and Portugal, demonstrating effectiveness in actual heritage environments. 

Build Strategic Heritage Ecosystem
Engage a multidisciplinary consortium and align with related ECCCH initiatives to amplify impact and position European cultural heritage at the forefront of digital innovation.

• Development of a meta-ontology for aligning existing cultural heritage object (CHO) vocabularies, enhancing annotation and archival processes.

• Creation of tools for automating the retrieval and annotation of bibliographies, improving efficiency for cultural heritage professionals.

• Scalable systems for storing, retrieving, and visualizing large datasets related to 3D reconstructions, bibliographies, and excavation metadata.

• Sustainable data pipelines for continuous integration with versioning and provenance, ensuring long-term data integrity and traceability.

• Modern interfaces for annotating, narrating, and visualizing digital cultural heritage assets, improving usability for professionals.

• Dynamic linking of bibliographic references with excavation contexts, enhancing granularity and contextualization of annotations.

• Cross-domain and cross-application interoperability to ensure seamless integration with the ECCCH ecosystem and external repositories.

• Smooth onboarding and upskilling of cultural heritage professionals through co-creation of learning materials and training modules.

In this section, you will find the official documents produced during the project lifetime. Reports and deliverables will be made public as the project progresses. These documents will be essential to share the results of our work with the scientific community, policy makers, and the general public. We invite you to visit this page regularly to stay updated on the new documents published by our project. If you have any questions or comments, please do not hesitate to contact us.