Track 03 – Infrastructures, Dataspace, International Projects
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• Dimitri Kotzinos – Cergy Paris University, France • Anaïs Guillem – CNRS MAP, France • Bruno Fanini – CNR ISPC, Italy
Standards and Community-Driven Tools
Transforming Cultural Heritage Through Digital Innovation - Case Study of eKultura
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Jelena Rubic and Laura Šejic
Early Stage of Community-Driven UI/UX Refactoring of the Open-Source ATON Framework
Chiara Florise Amadei, Marcello Massidda, Sofia Menconero, Giorgio Gosti, and Bruno Fanini
Designing and developing ICH Atlas: A Trend Identification Platform for Digital
Valorization of Intangible Cultural Heritage
Chiara Di Lodovico, Arianna Bertolino, Davide Spallazzo, Ilaria Bollati, and Greta
Cappellini
Broadening Data and Digital Skills within Communities to Access Digital Research
Infrastructures
Karina Rodriguez Echavarria and Myrsini Samaroudi
Infrastructures, Platforms and Digital Ecosystems
C3DHN - An evolutive French Ecosystem for heritage data preservation: methodology,
technologies and community
Florent Laroche, Sarah Tournon, Xavier Granier, Mehdi Chayani, Anthony Pamart, Bruno
Dutailly, Matthieu Quantin, Valentin Grimaud, Sylvie Eusebe, and Olivier Marlet
H/RADIOSA: Recommended Approaches for the Development of Interoperable Open Semantic
Artefacts in the Heritage Domain
Erica Scarpa, Riccardo Valente, and Irene Rossi
Determining a General CH Digitization Process Based on a Scoping Review
Cindy Kröber and Sander Münster
A Holistic Digital Ecosystem for Sustainable Cultural Heritage Management in Türkiye:
National Museum Information System (MUES)
Hakan Melih Aygün and Irmak Günes Yüceil
Shared Data, Shared Practice, Shared Knowledge: Insights from Building NFDI4Culture's
Federated Research Data Infrastructure for Cultural Heritage
Torsten Schrade, Linnaea Söhn, Alexandra Büttner, Tabea Tietz, Jonatan Jalle Steller,
Harald Sack, Etienne Posthumus, Oleksandra Bruns, Heike Fliegl, and Sarah Pittroff
ChainPro - A Web3 Platform for Artists
Ferdinando Bosco, Vincenzo Croce, and Marcantonio La Franca
3D Digital Silk Road - the Project and Its Results Overview
Marek Milosz, Elzbieta Milosz, and Jerzy Montusiewicz
Rome Reborn: Status Report and Future of the Project
Bernard Frischer and Mohamed Abdelaziz
Data Analysis, Datasets and Multimodal Approaches
Spatialization, fusion and enrichment of Multimodal Imaging for Interdisciplinary Digital
Heritage Studies
Anthony Pamart, Livio De Luca, and Philippe Veron
Introducing Sociodata in Virtual Museums: A Holistic Approach for Sustainable Development
in Cultural Landscapes
Sharon Pisani, Alan Miller, Catherine Cassidy, Loraine Clarke, Iain Oliver, and Goncalo
Gomes
Towards a Scientometric Understanding of Cultural & Digital Heritage: Multi Source Data
Integration Pipeline & EC Funding Trends
Walter Ehrenberger and Sander Münster
I.PaC and semantic graphs to represent Italian Cultural Heritage
Margherita Porena, Margherita Bartoli, Luigi Cerullo, and Antonella Negri
Enhancing the study of historical figures through AI-powered interactive data
visualizations
Giovanni Profeta, Joseph Cornelius, and Fabio Rinaldi
A Searchable Multimodal Dataset of Rococo-Era Ornamental Prints
Thomas Hudcovic, Ines Röckl, Julian Jachmann, and Gabriel Zachmann
From Black Books to Burners: Street Art as Cultural Heritage
Patrick Mcinerney and Kieran Cronin
Browse
Recent Submissions
Item Transforming Cultural Heritage Through Digital Innovation - Case Study of eKultura(The Eurographics Association, 2025) Rubic, Jelena; Šejic, Laura; Campana, Stefano; Ferdani, Daniele; Graf, Holger; Guidi, Gabriele; Hegarty, Zackary; Pescarin, Sofia; Remondino, FabioThe eKultura project exemplifies how collaboration and technological adaptation can empower cultural heritage institutions to preserve and share their collections. Built upon the eArchiving Initiative and eARK specifications, eKultura provides a robust and secure framework for digitizing, storing, and accessing Croatia's diverse cultural heritage. The core objectives of eKultura include the establishment of a central system for the permanent preservation, access, aggregation, and search of cultural heritage materials. The project leveraged open-source software, including Goobi workflow and the RODA tool, to enhance digitization processes, quality control, and metadata management. By aligning with OAIS standards and integrating seamlessly with the Central Permanent Storage System, eKultura ensures secure, scalable, and long-term preservation. Furthermore, the eKultura portal enhances accessibility by providing a multilingual interface that allows global users to explore Croatian heritage in over 28 languages. The portal also includes features designed to enhance user engagement and interaction with cultural institutions, offering advanced search capabilities, high-resolution content viewing, and data export options. Additionally, the eKultura system functions as a national aggregator, supporting metadata transformation and data publication to Europeana. The project has yielded significant benefits, including long-term preservation of cultural assets, increased public access, and institutional empowerment. By adopting and refining existing technological solutions, establishing standardized digitization workflows, and promoting knowledge exchange, eKultura ensures that Croatian cultural heritage is preserved and made accessible for future generations. As a model of best practice, the project demonstrates how technological innovation, international standards, and strategic collaboration can drive the successful digital transformation of the cultural heritage sector.Item From Black Books to Burners: Street Art as Cultural Heritage(The Eurographics Association, 2025) Mcinerney, Patrick; Cronin, Kieran; Campana, Stefano; Ferdani, Daniele; Graf, Holger; Guidi, Gabriele; Hegarty, Zackary; Pescarin, Sofia; Remondino, FabioStreet art occupies a unique space between contemporary art and cultural heritage, characterized by dynamic public expression and inherent ephemerality. The vulnerability of street art to environmental degradation, vandalism, and erasure creates urgent challenges for its preservation. This paper examines how digital archiving can reconcile street art's transient nature with its cultural value through human-centered systems design and critical heritage frameworks. We analyze emerging methodologies for documenting its lifecycle-from sketches to final works-including heritagisation processes, community participation, and semantic technologies. Focusing on the mementoArtem Digital Street Art Archive, we demonstrate how the Arches Heritage Management Framework-using CIDOC-CRM, photogrammetry, and georeferencing-enables the integration of diverse data sources, semantic interoperability, long-term preservation and public engagement with these records. This work is carried out in collaboration with the INSYTE-Cooley Research Laboratory, the Department of Computing and Mathematics, South East Technological University, Ireland, and with the assistance of the Getty Conservation Institute, LA, USA.Item H/RADIOSA: Recommended Approaches for the Development of Interoperable Open Semantic Artefacts in the Heritage Domain(The Eurographics Association, 2025) Scarpa, Erica; Valente, Riccardo; Rossi, Irene; Campana, Stefano; Ferdani, Daniele; Graf, Holger; Guidi, Gabriele; Hegarty, Zackary; Pescarin, Sofia; Remondino, FabioThis paper offers actionable recommendations and best practices for developing semantic artefacts in the Heritage field. Aimed at both experts and non-specialists, it highlights the importance of adopting FAIR and Linked Data principles. Drawing on a survey of existing tools and a review of relevant literature, the ‹H/RADIOSA› initiative proposes guidelines to bridge the gap between domain-specific needs and technical standards. These recommendations serve as a call to action for researchers and practitioners to foster the creation of high-quality, interoperable semantic artefacts.Item 3D Digital Silk Road - the Project and Its Results Overview(The Eurographics Association, 2025) Milosz, Marek; Milosz, Elzbieta; Montusiewicz, Jerzy; Campana, Stefano; Ferdani, Daniele; Graf, Holger; Guidi, Gabriele; Hegarty, Zackary; Pescarin, Sofia; Remondino, FabioThe aim of the "3D Digital Silk Road" project was to carry out research and popularization work in the field of 3D digitization of cultural heritage in Uzbekistan. The project involved five universities: Lublin University of Technology (LUT) from Poland and four Partners from Uzbekistan: National University of Uzbekistan in Tashkent, Samarkand State University, Urgench State University and Chirchik State Pedagogical Institute. The project is a great example of interdisciplinary cooperation between computer scientists from LUT and Uzbek historians and museum experts. The work related to 3D scanning objects was carried out in museums. During the project a methodology for scanning large architectural objects with heavy tourist traffic was developed, implemented and improved. The main result of the project is the website (https:silkroad3d.com) and a perpetual archive of 3D scans. During the project many additional tasks were carried out.Item Introducing Sociodata in Virtual Museums: A Holistic Approach for Sustainable Development in Cultural Landscapes(The Eurographics Association, 2025) Pisani, Sharon; Miller, Alan; Cassidy, Catherine; Clarke, Loraine; Oliver, Iain; Gomes, Goncalo; Campana, Stefano; Ferdani, Daniele; Graf, Holger; Guidi, Gabriele; Hegarty, Zackary; Pescarin, Sofia; Remondino, FabioTopic: Virtual museums are powerful tools for preserving and promoting cultural heritage (CH) while enhancing accessibility and engagement. Yet, many focus on digitised artefacts without fully capturing their socio-cultural relevance or their connection to sustainable development. The Virtual European Rural Artisans (VERA) Platform addresses this gap by creating digital cultural landscapes that connect heritage, community, and sustainable development. It links the public with artisans and cultural institutions, encouraging a holistic understanding of heritage as a dynamic socio-cultural phenomenon. Context: The development of European Data Spaces enables broader sharing of heritage data. Projects such as Europeana and the ECCCH demonstrate the potential of interoperable, open-access cultural data and services. VERA aligns with these by embedding `sociodata' -- a new layer of contextual data that captures the relationship between the community and the heritage artefact, sustainability aspects, and evolving narratives surrounding heritage objects. Relevance: Sustainable development and CH are deeply interconnected. The SDGs emphasise safeguarding CH (SDG11.4), inclusive economic growth (SDG8) and quality education (SDG4). However, many virtual heritage initiatives lack a direct link to socio-economic sustainability. By allowing community groups to interact within a shared digital space, the VERA Platform promotes cultural sustainability, creative heritage tourism, and economic development. Its integration with EU data spaces ensures open, reusable cultural data for research, education, and policy. Innovation: The unique contribution of this research is the emphasis on social metadata collected through a holistic sustainability-oriented virtual museum infrastructure. This research introduces `sociodata' which captures threats and actions that promote sustainable development within cultural landscapes. The VERA Platform is an example of sociodata being utilised in a digital cultural space. This article illustrates how various stakeholders are utilising VERA to share knowledge, showcase craftsmanship, and promote sustainable practices.Item ChainPro - A Web3 Platform for Artists(The Eurographics Association, 2025) Bosco, Ferdinando; Croce, Vincenzo; Franca, Marcantonio La; Campana, Stefano; Ferdani, Daniele; Graf, Holger; Guidi, Gabriele; Hegarty, Zackary; Pescarin, Sofia; Remondino, FabioBlockchain Technology and Web3 solutions act as catalysts for innovation and creativity, providing artists with tools to experiment with new business models, services, and applications, free from the constraints of centralized entities. Digital innovation significantly impacts artists' ability to connect and create trusted communities, leveraging these technologies. Several platforms support the digitalization of creative arts, but Web3 platforms can revolutionize the sector by simplifying blockchain adoption, enabling the formation of Decentralized Autonomous Organization (DAOs), fostering innovative business models, enhancing legal transparency, nurturing communities, and driving creativity and competitiveness. This paper explores how Blockchain, Non-Fungible Tokens (NFTs), and related Web3 technologies can empower Creators by providing greater ownership and control over their creative works. A state-of-the-art analysis identifies the technical requirements for integrating blockchain and NFT-based services for user engagement and innovative business models. Additionally, a user-centred design approach was adopted to collect user requirements for managing creative works ownership, Intellectual Property Rights and revenue distribution through smart contracts. The results led to the implementation and validation of ChainPro for Artists (ChainPro4Artists), a Web3 innovative platform that supports advanced blockchain technologies, including Layer 2 infrastructures (e.g., Polygon) and DAOs tailored for artist communities.Item Spatialization, fusion and enrichment of Multimodal Imaging for Interdisciplinary Digital Heritage Studies(The Eurographics Association, 2025) Pamart, Anthony; Luca, Livio De; Veron, Philippe; Campana, Stefano; Ferdani, Daniele; Graf, Holger; Guidi, Gabriele; Hegarty, Zackary; Pescarin, Sofia; Remondino, FabioDigital Heritage (DH) has emerged as a dynamic and crucial concept for the future of Heritage Science (HS), at the crossroads of interdisciplinary fields. Nowadays, methods, tools and technologies for capturing reality play a predominant role in Cultural Heritage (CH) documentation framework. Indeed, the 2D/3D imaging and digitization techniques are massively employed today to survey, document, and study heritage artifacts. They offer numerous perspectives and avenues for investigation to enhance shared knowledge around heritage conservation and restoration. However, as the need for digital expertise expends in both scope and number, these various methods employed face the challenge of multimodality. This concept is at the core of this research, it is understood and justified by the growing need to cooperate with various digital resources (originating from multiple sensors, scales of observation, spectral or temporal layers) in order to feed and cross expertise. This paper explores 2D and 3D digitization strategies to enhance the potential of multimodal studies. The main contributions develop data-driven methods improving Spatialization, Fusion and Enrichment stages. Different types of approaches are proposed, aiming to better articulate the instrumental, computational and analytical phases in order to increase the informative potential of multi-source 2D/3D modelling. The strategy is demonstrated by a series of works and experiments enabling to construct and explore enriched multimodal data sets. The proposal offers reasoned and pragmatic solutions while the discussion anticipates emerging challenges such as semantic technologies, open science, artificial intelligence, and digital sobriety.Item Early Stage of Community-Driven UI/UX Refactoring of the Open-Source ATON Framework(The Eurographics Association, 2025) Amadei, Chiara Florise; Massidda, Marcello; Menconero, Sofia; Gosti, Giorgio; Fanini, Bruno; Campana, Stefano; Ferdani, Daniele; Graf, Holger; Guidi, Gabriele; Hegarty, Zackary; Pescarin, Sofia; Remondino, FabioThe digitisation of cultural heritage has become a central practice in recent years, responding to the needs for the preservation, enhancement and study of cultural assets. The increasing production of digital resources has seen the development of online platforms for visualising and sharing 3D models and 360 panoramas, also facilitating access and management of this type of data. The democratisation of these tools, coupled with their increasing user-friendliness, has expanded and diversified the scientific communities involved, widening the catchment area from a single audience of experts to general users. This has led to the emergence of new needs on the part of the users involved, necessitating a re-evaluation of the logic underpinning the consumption of digital services. This paper analyses the case study of ATON: an open-source framework design for creating Web3D/WebXR apps interacting with CH objects and 3D scenes on the Web, which underwent a complete refactoring of the User eXperience (UX) and User Interface (UI) through the H2IOSC project. Starting with the analysis of the framework and its structure, we define which parts are involved in the complete refactoring. We discuss the milestones of the application's development from 2015 to the present, through the framework's increasing involvement in national and international project activities, highlighting the evolving user needs and implementations of new tools and functionalities through a bottom-up design approach. We first illustrate the community's role in the co-creation of ATON and its involvement in UX and UI refactoring activities. We present user research and design parts. Through the research plan, we describe the project from the objectives and research questions, debating the chosen methodologies, the target audience involved and the expected results. Finally, we present and discuss the choices related to the design process, covering the conceptualization of essential components, the development of the Design System (DS), and its implementation as a renewed built-in UI module. We also explore its integration into various ready-to-use blueprints and templates, analysing how it improves performance in the development phase. Additionally, we examine the trade-offs encountered in the components' abstraction level definition and the selection of suitable UI libraries by comparing existing solutions.Item Enhancing the study of historical figures through AI-powered interactive data visualizations(The Eurographics Association, 2025) Profeta, Giovanni; Cornelius, Joseph; Rinaldi, Fabio; Campana, Stefano; Ferdani, Daniele; Graf, Holger; Guidi, Gabriele; Hegarty, Zackary; Pescarin, Sofia; Remondino, FabioOne of the most important tasks for a historian is to identify key historical figures across multiple cultural archives and analyze their impact on history. The extensive effort of cultural institutions in digitizing historical archival materials and distributing them through online digital archives have significantly enhanced the study of historical figures. However, current historical digital archives, which rely on keyword-based search methods, often return numerous but imprecise results making it challenging for historians to understand chronological and contextual events surrounding a historical figure. We would like to present the result of the Mini-Muse project. It was a preliminary research project aimed at identifying data visualization models and user-friendly interface features to help historians visually explore historical figures and their actions. The project leverages Natural Language Processing (NLP) algorithms to extract metadata from unstructured text and generate structured data about key figures. It also applies data visualization techniques to support the visual analysis of each figure's timeline. The project adopts a user-centered design approach to ensure that the user interface features meet the needs of historians. It involves a pool of Swiss and Italian historians to gather insights on their research practices and validate a working prototype. The findings of the preliminary research project suggests that the introduction of an ''action flow view'', an interactive timeline displaying the historical figure's actions extracted automatically, can significantly improve the identification and study of historical figures.Item C3DHN - An evolutive French Ecosystem for heritage data preservation: methodology, technologies and community(The Eurographics Association, 2025) Laroche, Florent; Tournon, Sarah; Granier, Xavier; Chayani, Mehdi; Pamart, Anthony; Dutailly, Bruno; Quantin, Matthieu; Grimaud, Valentin; Eusebe, Sylvie; Marlet, Olivier; Campana, Stefano; Ferdani, Daniele; Graf, Holger; Guidi, Gabriele; Hegarty, Zackary; Pescarin, Sofia; Remondino, FabioThe preservation of 3D heritage data is a major challenge for scientific research and the enhancement of cultural heritage. This article presents the structured approach developed by the French community for conserving and utilizing these data, federated within a dedicated national infrastructure: the Consortium 3D for Digital Humanities (CST3D HN). Activities are organized around four main axes: a shared and common methodology, the use of standardized metadata and an open source software tool named Altag3D, the development of the French National 3D Data Repository Archive, and the structuring of a dedicated French scientific community in the form of a scholarly society. https://3dhumanities.hypotheses.org The CST3D HN methodology relies on proven principles for documenting and structuring 3D heritage data. It establishes standards to ensure FAIR principles, particularly interoperability, sustainability, and data accessibility. This methodological framework ensures rigorous project management and harmonization of practices among various involved institutions, extending beyond disciplinary specifics. Multimodal digitization has become essential in the heritage domain. However, point clouds and models can only make sense if associated descriptors are provided. Metadata management is an essential step to ensure data traceability and reuse. The open-source software Altag3D was developed by the entire community: it is based on a structured and interoperable metadata model. Our schema, initially limited to the fields of archaeology and cultural heritage, is now open to other areas of the human sciences. It is aligned with standard vocabularies and mapped to the Europeana Data Model (EDM). Altag3D allows to annotate, to document and to archive 3D models with respect to FAIR principles (Findable, Accessible, Interoperable, Reusable) thus aiming for standardization of 3D heritage data. https://altag3d.huma-num.fr The third axis involves setting up the French National Conservatoire for 3D heritage data, which aims to centralize and preserve French 3D heritage productions. This Open Archival Information System (OAIS) infrastructure for research data in France is hosted by the CINES (Centre Informatique National de l'Enseignement Supérieur). Thanks to Altag3D which helps researchers to create their own OAIS Submission Information Package (SIP), 3D models can be stored for next generations; a guarantee of interoperability for at least 20 to 30 years is ensured. The Data Repository assigns a Digital Object Identifier to each submission and introduces numerous innovations, such as using the GLTF format for improved visualization of models. This initiative is part of a long-term conservation and open data strategy, promoting their exploitation by researchers, institutions, and the general public. https://3d.humanities.science These technological and methodological advancements would not be sufficient without the creation of a national scientific community dedicated to heritage 3D at the French scale. The Consortium brings together over 44 members, including academic, institutional, and industrial actors, promoting interdisciplinary exchanges and dissemination of best practices. Within this dynamic, creating a scholarly society aims to ensure the sustainability of this community, structuring its activities (workshops, scientific events, publications), and enhancing its integration within national and international networks.Item Designing and developing ICH Atlas: A Trend Identification Platform for Digital Valorization of Intangible Cultural Heritage(The Eurographics Association, 2025) Lodovico, Chiara Di; Bertolino, Arianna; Spallazzo, Davide; Bollati, Ilaria; Cappellini, Greta; Campana, Stefano; Ferdani, Daniele; Graf, Holger; Guidi, Gabriele; Hegarty, Zackary; Pescarin, Sofia; Remondino, FabioSocial media-based trend identification platforms powered by Artificial Intelligence (AI) are gaining considerable attention from scholars and industry professionals alike. These platforms analyze large amounts of user-generated data, identify the emergence and evolution of practices, and support data-driven decision-making. Although automatic trend analysis is growing, limited attention has focused on developing platforms that target digital transformation practices in Intangible Cultural Heritage (ICH). This paper introduces the development process behind ICH Atlas, a digital platform that displays and enables dynamic navigation of emerging trends connected to ICH-related professional roles, skills, and digital technologies and their expected growth based on global trends. The platform was the result of nine-month remote collaboration between a university-based design research group with expertise in cultural heritage and a trend forecasting company specializing in artificial intelligence (AI) and big data analytics. Based on a qualitative analysis of meeting records, email correspondence, datasets, and platform prototypes, the paper outlines the platform's iterations. We trace the decision-making process development, encountered challenges, and coping strategies. Based on our reflections, we identify three tensions that might be of interest for industry-academia initiatives in the intangible cultural heritage sector: scaffolding vs ambiguity, interpretation vs granularity of data, tacit vs explicit knowledge.Item Broadening Data and Digital Skills within Communities to Access Digital Research Infrastructures(The Eurographics Association, 2025) Echavarria, Karina Rodriguez; Samaroudi, Myrsini; Campana, Stefano; Ferdani, Daniele; Graf, Holger; Guidi, Gabriele; Hegarty, Zackary; Pescarin, Sofia; Remondino, FabioThis paper advances understanding on how computational and data-driven research methods can be expanded within the Arts and Humanities community, including researchers and practitioners in the Cultural Heritage sector. In particular, the research investigates the catalysts and motivators to enhance the digital and data literacy of researchers and practitioners and recommendations for longer term adoption of these skills. The research is contextualised within current efforts to expand access to national and European Digital Research Infrastructures. It is conducted through a series of scaffolded learning interventions implemented through a training initiative in the United Kingdom (UK). The paper describes this training initiative and the evaluation of the effectiveness of these interventions employing a mixed data approach. The research concludes with a set of recommendations for designing training programmes amongst learning communities, including using skills curricula based on domain-specific data processes and infrastructures as well as active learning approaches.Item A Searchable Multimodal Dataset of Rococo-Era Ornamental Prints(The Eurographics Association, 2025) Hudcovic, Thomas; Röckl, Ines; Jachmann, Julian; Zachmann, Gabriel; Campana, Stefano; Ferdani, Daniele; Graf, Holger; Guidi, Gabriele; Hegarty, Zackary; Pescarin, Sofia; Remondino, FabioWe present a curated multimodal dataset and an accompanying multimodal retrieval system designed to promote reproducible research in art historical information access. The dataset consists of 1,605 digitized photographs of eighteenth-century original prints, with a specific focus on Rocaille ornamentation. Each image is paired with rich metadata as well as additional domain expert commentary. The multimodal retrieval system exposes this corpus through a search engine, implemented with a lightweight architecture. Semantic search is enabled by dense multimodal embeddings. Full-text and fuzzy queries are enabled by conventional database indices. Both types of queries can be easily made through a simple website, exposing the search engine. Our implementation also provides a simple, uniform, queryable REST API, which makes the collection easily and flexibly accessible to researchers with programming skills. Emphasizing scalability and extensibility, the platform can serve as a practical blueprint for deploying multimodal search across specialized image-text datasets. Note that this paper describes work-in-progress; in particular, the multimodal embedding model is currently being implemented.Item Rome Reborn: Status Report and Future of the Project(The Eurographics Association, 2025) Frischer, Bernard; Abdelaziz, Mohamed; Campana, Stefano; Ferdani, Daniele; Graf, Holger; Guidi, Gabriele; Hegarty, Zackary; Pescarin, Sofia; Remondino, FabioRome Reborn is an international initiative launched in 1996 to create a digital model of ancient Rome as it may have appeared in 320 CE. The model serves two primary purposes: as a visual resource for virtual tours and as a tool for ''simpirical'' research-a hybrid method combining simulation and empiricism. We trace the development of the model through its four major versions and explain the historical and technological factors that shaped its evolution. We also outline ongoing work, including a final report situating the project within the history of visualizing ancient Rome and the creation of an online database documenting the evidence and decisions behind the reconstruction.Item A Holistic Digital Ecosystem for Sustainable Cultural Heritage Management in Türkiye: National Museum Information System (MUES)(The Eurographics Association, 2025) Aygün, Hakan Melih; Yüceil, Irmak Günes; Campana, Stefano; Ferdani, Daniele; Graf, Holger; Guidi, Gabriele; Hegarty, Zackary; Pescarin, Sofia; Remondino, FabioThis paper presents Türkiye's National Museum Information System (MUES), a comprehensive digital platform managing 3.7 million assets in 248 public museums and 286,000 assets in 347 private museums. MUES digitizes the entire heritage lifecycle-from excavation to conservation, exhibition, and storage-standardizing workflows to boost efficiency, cut costs, enhance preservation, and combat loss and illicit trafficking. Compliant with cultural heritage laws and data governance, it offers institutional authorities granular control through a no-code, user-friendly interface, ensuring transparency and accountability. Its modular, interoperable design supports scalable adoption and integration with international heritage platforms. Beyond institutional use, MUES democratizes cultural heritage by providing real-time access to researchers, policymakers, and the public, fostering an inclusive, participatory ecosystem. Aligned with WSIS goals, MUES serves as a sustainable, replicable model for global digital heritage governance and collaboration.Item I.PaC and semantic graphs to represent Italian Cultural Heritage(The Eurographics Association, 2025) Porena, Margherita; Bartoli, Margherita; Cerullo, Luigi; Negri, Antonella; Campana, Stefano; Ferdani, Daniele; Graf, Holger; Guidi, Gabriele; Hegarty, Zackary; Pescarin, Sofia; Remondino, FabioI.PaC (Infrastructure and Services for Cultural Heritage) [CN23] is the technological core of the National Digital Ecosystem for Culture - Ecomic, an initiative developed within Italy's National Recovery and Resilience Plan (PNRR). It is designed to support the management, enrichment, and accessibility of digital cultural resources, and it is developed not merely as a data repository but as an advanced infrastructure that enables new models of interaction and valorization of cultural heritage. I.PaC represents the central hub of the ecosystem and it integrates and connects heterogeneous systems, allowing cultural institutions to ingest, manage, and reuse digital data through a comprehensive range of services. The infrastructure also provides services for digital asset management (DAM) and advanced content processing, allowing institutions to optimize digitization processes and improving the quality of their metadata. A key feature of I.PaC is the use of domain-specific and cross-domain graphs: these graphs allow to create relationships between cultural objects from different fields (archival, bibliographic, museum, and multimedia), enabling cross-domain navigation and a richer reconstruction of cultural contexts. On one hand the domain-specific graphs serve as vertical, in-depth models that structure and organize all the relevant information within each cultural sector. They ensure a high level of specialization and interoperability, since they are based on national and international description standard, and they enhance metadata thanks to AI technologies based on entity recognition, disambiguation, and data enrichment. Each domain graph retains its internal logic while benefiting from a shared semantic foundation. On the other hand, the cross-domain knowledge graph provides a transversal representation of information about cultural heritage, by modeling common entities and their relationships, which can then be reused across all domain-specific graphs. This approach enables the integration of information from traditionally separate disciplines, revealing unexpected connections. By implementing I.PaC's semantic graphs, Italy's cultural institutions can transition from static data repositories to dynamic, knowledge-driven platforms, creating new opportunities for accessibility and valorization.Item Shared Data, Shared Practice, Shared Knowledge: Insights from Building NFDI4Culture's Federated Research Data Infrastructure for Cultural Heritage(The Eurographics Association, 2025) Schrade, Torsten; Söhn, Linnaea; Büttner, Alexandra; Tietz, Tabea; Steller, Jonatan Jalle; Sack, Harald; Posthumus, Etienne; Bruns, Oleksandra; Fliegl, Heike; Pittroff, Sarah; Campana, Stefano; Ferdani, Daniele; Graf, Holger; Guidi, Gabriele; Hegarty, Zackary; Pescarin, Sofia; Remondino, FabioNFDI4Culture is a consortium within Germany's National Research Data Infrastructure (NFDI), dedicated to the systematic management, preservation, and reuse of research data on tangible and intangible cultural heritage. Emphasising a federated approach and comprehensive implementation of the FAIR principles (Findable, Accessible, Interoperable, and Reusable), NFDI4Culture fosters interdisciplinary collaboration, enhances research opportunities, and connects diverse cultural heritage data from fields such as architecture, art history, musicology, performing arts, and media studies. This article provides a detailed overview of NFDI4Culture's technical infrastructure, with a particular emphasis on the Culture Information Portal and the Culture Knowledge Graph, both of which facilitate data discovery and semantic integration across diverse cultural heritage domains. Furthermore, it discusses collaborative workflows, community engagement approaches such as data stories, and educational measures aimed at enhancing data literacy among digital cultural heritage researchers and practitioners.Item Determining a General CH Digitization Process Based on a Scoping Review(The Eurographics Association, 2025) Kröber, Cindy; Münster, Sander; Campana, Stefano; Ferdani, Daniele; Graf, Holger; Guidi, Gabriele; Hegarty, Zackary; Pescarin, Sofia; Remondino, FabioThe digitization of cultural heritage (CH) serves a range of critical purposes, including preservation, accessibility, research, and education. It also plays a key role in raising public awareness about the value of cultural assets, while fostering community engagement through thoughtfully developed digital heritage initiatives. This paper presents a qualitative analysis based on a scoping review of recent CH digitization literature, aiming to identify and synthesize key themes and approaches. The findings are clustered and abstracted to outline core steps in the digitization process, forming a structured framework. For each step, associated tasks and guiding questions are defined to support implementation. This process-oriented overview offers practical value for the planning and execution of new digitization projects. It also provides strategic guidance on resource allocation and stakeholder engagement, including timing, methods, and rationale for involving communities, tourism sectors, and other relevant actors.Item Towards a Scientometric Understanding of Cultural & Digital Heritage: Multi Source Data Integration Pipeline & EC Funding Trends(The Eurographics Association, 2025) Ehrenberger, Walter; Münster, Sander; Campana, Stefano; Ferdani, Daniele; Graf, Holger; Guidi, Gabriele; Hegarty, Zackary; Pescarin, Sofia; Remondino, FabioWe introduce an ELT pipeline and a data model that integrates, sanitizes, unifies, and enriches multiple data sources to enable quantitative analysis of cultural and digital heritage. This results in 374,998 research outputs, 45,725 institutions and 19,558 projects after deduplication, including other entities and metadata. We developed scientometric use cases tailored for researchers and policy makers, and implemented a preliminary version of them in an interactive web app prototype. Using basic keyword filtering to identify relevant fields in our curated dataset, our analysis reveals that Digital Heritage funding surged 355% compared to Cultural Heritage's 137% growth (2015-2024), with Italy emerging as the leader in both fields. Computer Science dominates Digital Heritage (averaging 60% of funding), while Cultural Heritage maintains broader disciplinary distribution. Economics/Business show remarkable growth in both fields, suggesting increasing commercialization focus. These initial findings, as well as the use cases presented in the prototype, demonstrate the pipeline's potential while highlighting the critical need for sophisticated topic modeling and classification systems as well as further enrichment of the data to unlock deeper scientometric insights.