In direct connection to APAC Labs' work, Data Management Laboratory's central priority is the issue of scientific data integration and management, aligned with the European Initiative for Open Science and its related FAIR principles (Findable, Accessible, Interoperable and Re-usable).
This effort focuses on the organization of knowledge repositories and their integration within similar, pan European structures. Flagship activities are the development of DIGILAB, the digital data research infrastructure of E-RIHS, with APAC Labs leading a team of more than 70 researchers from laboratories, research organizations and museums around the world, such as the Smithsonian, the Getty and national facilities in Brazil, Mexico and most European countries. APAC Labs data is also integrated in AriadnePlus, the European Research infrastructure on Archaeological Data, which engages more than 30 Heritage institutions across Europe, the Americas and Asia. At the core of the knowledge, repository stands the development of digital twins of heritage assets, semantically described and represented by specific domain-ontologies aligned with CIDOC-CRM.