ECHOES was featured in a Keynote at the International Symposium: Digitizing Historical Libraries in the Age of Artificial Intelligence held at the University of Coimbra, Portugal on the 17th-18th June.
Agiatis Benardou (DARIAH) delivered a keynote speech, No digitization project is an island entire of itself, every digital heritage object is a piece of the continent – or why European Digital Research Infrastructures matter, which reflected on nearly two decades of research on user needs and digital cultural heritage / digital humanities infrastructures, from early DARIAH and Europeana work to more recent developments in ECHOES. The central argument is that infrastructures should be designed around actual scholarly, professional and epistemic practices rather than assumed user categories.
ECHOES was mentioned extensively throughout the talk, particularly:
- the ECHOES Consultation, as one of the most recent attempts at mapping digital cultural heritage practices and needs across Europe,
- the diversity and fragmentation of the cultural heritage ecosystem revealed through the consultation findings,
- the Collaborative Research Scenarios as examples of practice-oriented, cross-domain research workflows and infrastructure requirements,
- the implications of these findings for the future development of digital cultural heritage ecosystems and cloud-based infrastructures.
More information: Conference website.
