Joining a European infrastructure shouldn't mean ditching your current system. INFINITY offers plug-and-play connectors for platforms like dLibra and Omeka S, bridging the Provenance Gap by creating Multidimensional Knowledge Graphs. youtube.com/shorts/RruDa...

A manuscript never transcribed is, for most purposes, one nobody can read. VTL, an ECHOES application, pairs automated text recognition with expert curation. Newspapers, manuscripts, cuneiform, oral history. Output: searchable, reusable data. #EchoesEccch #CulturalHeritageCloud

Two conservators can look at the same surface and see different things. Both may be right. OCRA, an ECHOES application, lets one area carry several conflicting interpretations without overwriting anything. Annotation in 3D and relightable 2D. #EchoesEccch #CulturalHeritageCloud

The first ECHOES training course is live. Introduction to the European Collaborative Cloud for Cultural Heritage, five units, now on DARIAH-Campus. Plus the OntoMatchGame, a card game for learning ontologies. Free and open to anyone. #EchoesEccch #CulturalHeritageCloud

An infrastructure does not succeed because it is well built. It succeeds because people use it. Today at the ENCATC Congress in Nice we presented A Community-Centred Path to a Sustainable #CulturalHeritageCloud, with ARIADNE and the University of Antwerp. #EchoesEccch

The first ECHOES training course is live. Introduction to the European Collaborative Cloud for Cultural Heritage, five units, now on DARIAH-Campus. Plus the OntoMatchGame, a card game for learning ontologies. Free and open to anyone. #EchoesEccch #CulturalHeritageCloud

Nineteen of twenty. Seven more Engagement and Collaboration projects have started, joining the twelve from July. Audiovisual collections, textile heritage, landscape archives, Norway, Iceland. Built for small and medium-sized institutions. #EchoesEccch #CulturalHeritageCloud

Cataloguing to European standards has meant choosing between doing it properly and doing it at all. CIT, an ECHOES application, is built for smaller institutions: domain standards, AI-assisted metadata, collections searchable across Europe. #EchoesEccch #CulturalHeritageCloud

ECHOES and ICOM Portugal hosted "ECHOES for Portuguese-speaking Communities" on 16 June, bringing lusophone heritage professionals into the conversation around the #CulturalHeritageCloud. Read more: www.echoes-eccch.eu/echoes-for-p... #EchoesEccch #DigitalHeritage

"Innovation is strongest when technology, research and practice evolve together." Giuseppe Zoppo (ENCATC), Ep. 4 of ECHOES Insider Talks. Watch: www.youtube.com/watch #EchoesEccch #CulturalHeritageCloud

We asked the networks that represent our sector what Europe's Cultural Heritage Cloud should be. Their answer: not another platform, but an invisible layer that makes existing work easier, safer and stronger. Full focus group findings www.echoes-eccch.eu/online-focus...

The cloud must not remain only a technological effort. Ep. 4 of ECHOES Insider Talks: Giuseppe Zoppo (#ENCATC) on bringing cultural managers, researchers and policymakers into the #CulturalHeritageCloud. Watch: youtu.be/2BTgcBtxr6U #EchoesEccch

How do you build a Cloud that 170+ museum networks will use? Ep. 3 of #ECHOES Insider Talks: Margherita Sani (NEMO) on bringing the voice of museums into the #CulturalHeritageCloud. Watch: youtu.be/HvGMQCXoWS4 #EchoesEccch

Marçal (E.C.C.O.) on the #CulturalHeritageCloud opening doors between conservators across countries and fields. Ep. 2 of ECHOES Insider Talks. Watch: www.youtube.com/watch #EchoesEccch

A whole ECCCH delegation heading to Cyprus. Xavier Rodier speaks at the Digital Heritage Summit, Limassol 25-29 May. AUTOMATA & HERITALISE on Day 1 round table, plus ARXIVE, ECHOLOT, EXCALIBUR, INFINITY, StratiGraph, TEXTaiLES, UNICHE. #EchoesEccch #CulturalHeritageCloud

Digital is not the core of conservation. Marçal & Siatou (E.C.C.O.) on the gap between institutional and private practice in the #CulturalHeritageCloud. Ep. 2 of #ECHOES Insider Talks. Watch: youtu.be/Rkpw5ozk2eU #EchoesEccch

Conservation has 6,000 voices in Europe. Ep. 2 of ECHOES Insider Talks: Marçal & Siatou (E.C.C.O.) on what the #CulturalHeritageCloud means for conservator-restorers across the continent. Watch: youtu.be/QQG2LAjFFXY #EchoesEccch

ECHOES on stage at the Digital Heritage Summit 2026. Xavier Rodier speaks at the Euromed/Digital Heritage Summit in Limassol, Cyprus, 25-29 May, alongside sister projects AUTOMATA and HERITALISE. digitalheritagesummit.eu/ #EchoesEccch #CulturalHeritageCloud

What changes is the scale of knowledge we can build. Grazia Tucci (ICOMOS) on how the #CulturalHeritageCloud connects 3D, historical and scientific data. Ep. 1 of ECHOES Insider Talks. Watch: youtu.be/okLRcqJkMLM #EchoesEccch

"Before data, there is heritage." Grazia Tucci (ICOMOS), Ep. 1 of ECHOES Insider Talks. Watch: bit.ly/49l6UJx #EchoesEccch #CulturalHeritageCloud

AI, textile heritage and a hackathon. Our sister project TEXTaiLES hosts A Day with TEXTaiLES on 3 June 2026 in Oulu, part of Cultural Capital 2026. Register: bit.ly/4hQ8eGJ #EchoesEccch #CulturalHeritageCloud

Before data, there is heritage. Grazia Tucci (ICOMOS) on why heritage knowledge must come first in every #CulturalHeritageCloud conversation. Ep. 1 of ECHOES Insider Talks. Watch: youtu.be/okLRcqJkMLM #EchoesEccch

Before data, there is heritage. Ep. 1 of ECHOES Insider Talks is out. Grazia Tucci (ICOMOS) on why 60+ years of conservation expertise must ground the #CulturalHeritageCloud. Watch: youtu.be/okLRcqJkMLM #EchoesEccch

Two European infrastructures, one ecosystem for cultural heritage. ECHOES and Europeana signed a Joint Statement in Poznań on the complementarity between the #CulturalHeritageCloud and the European data space. Watch: youtu.be/BfbTltgxWlw #EchoesEccch

What do curators and conservators need from a #CulturalHeritageCloud? At the end of March, INP Paris hosted an ECHOES focus group with heritage pros from across Europe. Findings feed the ECHOES Consultation. More: echoes-eccch.eu #EchoesEccch

What do curators and conservators need from a #CulturalHeritageCloud? ⠀ At the end of March, INP Paris hosted an ECHOES focus group with heritage pros from across Europe. Findings feed the ECHOES Consultation. ⠀ More: echoes-eccch.eu ⠀ #EchoesEccch

New sister project, new chapter for the #CulturalHeritageCloud. ECHOLOT has completed its kick-off and charts a 36-month roadmap to enrich and reuse heritage data with AI. Full update: echoes-eccch.eu/echolot-kick-off-and-consortium-meetings/ #EchoesEccch

Heading to Tours for the 5th #HeriTechForum. On 6-7 May 2026, ECHOES joins 400+ practitioners to shape the #CulturalHeritageCloud with an info stand, roundtables and a WP11 workshop. More: echoes-eccch.eu/echoes-at-the-heritech-forum-tours-6th-7th-may/ #EchoesEccch

Do you work with cultural heritage collections? Sister project INFINITY runs 2 short surveys on how heritage collections are managed, licensed and reused across Europe. Findings will shape the #CulturalHeritageCloud. Deadline 30 April: echoes-eccch.eu #EchoesEccch

How can XR help us hear Europe's musical heritage? PlaceMUS XR runs a 10-min survey feeding open-access guidelines for #CulturalHeritageCloud. Take part by 24 July: bit.ly/4ezoLzZ #EchoesEccch