🎉Hallo, liebe 4Culture-Community! Unsere Kolleg:innen waren diese Woche (16.–20.03.2026) in Poznań, um an der zweiten ECHOES-Jahresveranstaltung teilzunehmen! Das Treffen brachte alle ECHOES-Partner, Schwesterprojekte und die ECCCH-Community zusammen, um der Europäischen Kommission über den aktuellen Stand,, die bisherigen Ergebnisse und Aktivitäten für die kommenden Monate zu berichten: https://www.echoes-eccch.eu/echoes-second-annual-event-in-poznan-poland/

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#ECCCH #NFDIrocks #GLAM #ECHOES #Networking #NFDIeverywhere #TIB #ECHOLOT

✨ ☁️ And as final part of the afternoon at the #ECHOES annual meeting in Poznan today - a side-by-side discussion of how the European Data Space (for Cultural Heritage) relates to the Culture Cloud (and the hashtag#ECHOES project) by #Europeana Director Harry Verwayen and #ECHOES Coordinator Xavier Rodier.

🤝 In a nutshell, the Data Space is a more permanent space for cultural data access & reuse (it's public infrastructure) and the Cloud is a processing workspace for digital collaboration and the advancement of science & research. Crucially - the added value for all stakeholders involved - comes at the space of intersection - when the two initiatives can work in synergy as spaces for knowledge building and exchange. The slide images really paint a clear picture... in theory looks great, putting it in practice will be the hard work ahead of all teams involved over the next 5 years.

📜 A joint statement signed by both initiatives (on stage) should be officially published very soon, too!

#CulturalHeritage #CulturalData #CultureHeritageCloud #ECCCH #ECHOLOT

💬 Discussions with the sister projects during the final part of the afternoon in the #ECHOES (Culture Cloud) annual meeting. Not only learning more about what each of the 10 specialised projects (alongside @ECHOLOT_Project) will focus on in terms of tool development, community building and case studies, but crucially - discussing how we can start collaborating. Where lie the community fault lines - where there is space for additional outreach and collaboration, where there is need for integration and resource sharing? I can get behind this effort to avoid duplication of effort and ultimately not waste taxpayer funding.

💫 Just the beginning of the discussion of course, and much more activities planned ahead, including the Integration Task Force workshop planned for tomorrow.

📯 Stay tuned for more updates & read more about all sister projects on the #ECHOES site: https://www.echoes-eccch.eu/echoes-welcomes-10-new-eccch-projects/

#CulturalHeritage #CulturalData #ECHOLOT #CultureHeritageCloud

🎙️ Tomasz Parkoła from PCSS Poznańskie Centrum (Poznan Supercomputing Centre) gives the keynote in the afternoon at the #ECHOES annual meeting in Poznan >> he discusses the EU AI Factories vision in relation to the Cultural Heritage sector & specifically as lead infrastructure partner in both #ECHOES (Culture Cloud) & #PIASTAI (the AI Factory node in Poland), PCSS can provide relevant perspectives on what productive synergies might look like.

📌 Some brief points from the presentation:
- 5% of global AI infrastructure - European; 75% US; 15% China >> so we have a way to go.
- But sector transformation is generally still low - relating mostly to media & tech sectors, close to CH sector, but not quite there yet.
- Also raw infrastructure is not enough >> this is an opportunity (for AI Factories) >> services on top are needed -- platform-as-a-service + AI models or pipelines (on demand).

⚙️ Here the activities in #ECHOES (& #ECHOLOT) that require such infrastructure and services could benefit from long-term & sustainable joint collaboration (& funding).

🎬 The @ECHOLOT_Project is at the second annual meeting of the #ECHOES (the European Culture Heritage Cloud) in Poznań, Poland, this week.

📅 Today the event is open to the public (with options to attend online, see below) and stakeholders have a chance to hear more about the plans of ECHOES to integrate all sister projects (i.e. all the tools like #ECHOLOT building specialised services for the Culture Cloud) and to build capacity within the European cultural heritage communities.

⚙️ This morning we heard from various ECHOES colleagues on their activities to gather detailed information about community needs through consultation activities (factsheet already available online) and the roadmap for integration of services into the Cloud. A lot of challenges ahead, but great to learn more already about the possibilities for joining forces with and across the Cloud service providers.

🔗 More infos: https://www.echoes-eccch.eu/save-the-date-second-annual-event-in-poznan-poland/
https://www.echoes-eccch.eu/echoes-consultation/

#CulturalHerage #CulturalData #ECCCH

⚙️ The first in-person workshop with case study partners from the @ECHOLOT_Project is a wrap!

🏙️ We spent three eventful days in the beautiful city of Bilbao earlier this week, hosted by our consortium partners, University of Basque Country.

📅 Day 1 involved partner presentations and outline of the five thematic case studies planned in ECHOLOT, dedicated to: 1) Basque Cultural Heritage Collections; 2) European Literary Bibliography; 3) Media Art Collections; 4) Flemish Fine and Performing Arts Collections; 5) GLAM data Round-tripping with Wikimedia Sweden;

📅 Day 2 was dedicated to the User Centred Design workshop led by the Requirements Gathering Task Force with co-design group activities with the case study cultural heritage partners.

📅 Day 3 was our review and analysis of the UCD workshop results and planning for the next steps...

📌 We will publish a blog post with our full analysis in the coming days. To stay up to date with all #ECHOLOT updates - follow ECHOLOT's website (https://echolot-eccch.eu/) and social channels.

And on the topics of #cultureheritage data and #wikibase at #MUDCon2025, our @tibosl colleague Lucia Sohmen presents our work and ongoing challenges using formal data models for cultural data in our service #Wikibase4Research, part of the @nfdi4culture service portfolio.

Lucia presented ideas on our current workarounds, but also what we see as crucially missing in current status quo, opening up the floor to discussions about future development & what #ECHOLOT might be able to offer.

Follow along (or catch up) via the live stream: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WjWzELDLmkc

#openscience #opensource #semanticmediawiki #wikibase

And we're officially announcing the #ECHOLOT project publicly for the first time at the #MUDCon2025 with @krabina from KMA, one of our partners in this new HORIZON Europe collaborative project. Bernhard provided some history and context to the project idea, and we outlined how we are reimagining the #MediaWiki software for the future of connected cultural heritage data together with a dozen other EU organisations. More details on the project will be published soon on the @tibhannover website.

In the meantime, stay tuned and follow along the MUDCon: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WjWzELDLmkc

#openscience #opensource #semanticmediawiki #wikibase