New website for the Common European Data Space for Cultural Heritage launched

This expanded website offers a gateway to explore the rich data offer, products, frameworks and tools, inspiring activities, events and projects as well as the vibrant community and network of partners that bring the data space for cultural heritage to life. It also provides access to a suite of data space products – ranging from the Europeana Academy and training platform to the Statistics Dashboard and Europeana.eu.

It reflects the vision and priorities of the common European data space for cultural heritage Strategy 2025-2030, developed collaboratively by the European Commission and Member States with the support of the Europeana Initiative. The multilingual website is accessible to audiences across the continent – and world, which aligns with multilingualism being a cross-cutting priority in the data space strategy.

The common European data space for cultural heritage and the European Collaborative Cloud for Cultural Heritage (ECCCH or Cultural Heritage Cloud), while distinct, complement each other, especially in terms of data-sharing, tools and services, and capacity building.

• The data space is the main entry point for accessing and reusing heritage data by educators, creatives, citizens and other data spaces.
• The Cultural Heritage Cloud is a collaborative workspace for heritage professionals to access data, tools and services to advance heritage science.

Thanks to interoperable frameworks, data from the data space will flow securely to the Cultural Heritage Cloud for professionals to work with, while research outputs and data products generated in the Cultural Heritage Cloud will be accessible through the data space for reuse within and across sectors. To enable exchange, their tools and services will be based on Findable, Accessible, Interoperable and Reusable (FAIR) principles. As the steward of the data space, the Europeana Initiative’s involvement in ECHOES will ensure that complementary aspects are strengthened and expanded, thus contributing to the four pillars that ECHOES is built upon – Knowledge, Innovation, Communities and Sustainability.