Abstract
Europe’s cultural heritage sites are in danger, due to the increasing occurrence of disasters such as floods, earthquakes, and also because of man-made damage or the effects of climate change. In this framework, digital technology can help preserve the knowledge of threatened heritage artefacts, museums, monuments, documents and sites and make them accessible for citizens across Europe and for future generations.
In this direction, the European Commission has launched a call for the creation of a “Competence Centre” aimed at preserving cultural heritage through ICT technologies, as a transnational and interdisciplinary reference point. The project 4CH—Competence Centre for the Conservation of Cultural Heritage aims to design and define the overall architecture of a European Competence Centre on Cultural Heritage, which will operate proactively for the conservation and safeguarding of heritage. The project aims to initiate the implementation of the structure, organisation and services of the Competence Centre, which will operate as an infrastructure aimed at providing cultural, scientific, technological, financial, strategic and policy expertise and advice able to exploit the most advanced ICT, 3D and digital technologies.
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The project is being developed by a Consortium of nineteen partners from thirteen European countries led by INFN—Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare (Coordinator), INCEPTION Srl (Scientific coordinator), PIN Scrl—Servizi Didattici e Scientifici per l’Università di Firenze (Technical Coordinator). The Consortium includes Fundacion Tecnalia Research & Innovation, Spain; Visual Dimension, Belgium; RDF, Bulgaria; Iron Will, Moldavia; Koninklijke Nederlandse Akademie Van Wetenschappen—KNAW, Netherlands; University of Bologna, Italy; Athena Research Centre, Greece; Laboratorio Nacional de Engenharia Civil, Portugal; The Cyprus Institute, Cyprus; Idryma Technologias Kai Erevnas—FORTH, Greece; Istituto Centrale per il Catalogo Unico delle biblioteche italiane e per le informazioni bibliografiche—ICCU, Italy; Connecting Archaeology and Architecture In Europe—CARARE, Ireland; Michael Culture Association, Belgium; Institutul National al Patrimoniului, Romania; Universite de Tours, France; Leica Geosystems, Switzerland.
The 4CH project has been applied under the Work Programme Europe in a changing world—inclusive, innovative and reflective Societies (Call—Socioeconomic and Cultural Transformations in the Context of the Fourth Industrial Revolution—H2020-SC6-Transformations-2018-2019-2020).
4CH is a Horizon 2020 project funded by the European Commission under Grant Agreement n.101004468—4CH.
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Piaia, E., Maietti, F., Di Giulio, R., Iadanza, E. (2022). ICT and Digital Technologies. The New European Competence Centre for the Preservation and Conservation of Cultural Heritage. In: Moropoulou, A., Georgopoulos, A., Doulamis, A., Ioannides, M., Ronchi, A. (eds) Trandisciplinary Multispectral Modelling and Cooperation for the Preservation of Cultural Heritage. TMM_CH 2021. Communications in Computer and Information Science, vol 1574. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-20253-7_11
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