APAC at the kick-off meeting for the Horizon Europe ATRIUM (Advancing Frontier Research in the Arts and Humanities) project
APAC Labs researcher Valentina Vassallo and CyI Associate Professor Georgios Artopoulos recently participated in the kick-off meeting for the Horizon Europe ATRIUM (Advancing Frontier Research in the Arts and Humanities) project, which took place in Centre Marc Bloch, Berlin, hosted by DARIAH-EU. This four-year project will exploit and strengthen complementarities between four leading European infrastructures: DARIAH (digital arts and humanities), ARIADNE (archaeology), CLARIN (languages) and OPERAS (social sciences), to improve workflows and access to the state-of-the-art services available to researchers across countries, languages, domains and media.
In particular, ATRIUM will support and expand services pertaining to archaeological research. ATRIUM situates within the European Research landscape and it will align itself with various initiatives such as the OSCARS Project, by providing a holistic framework for data access and organisation. Its workflows will be created using the SSH Open Marketplace templates. Achieving interoperability with EOSC (the European Open Science Cloud) is a key priority for the services that ATRIUM will facilitate and assess, and ensuring their integration. ATRIUM brings together 17 partners and 12 affiliated entities across 12 countries, including the Cyprus Institute, which participates with the APAC Labs and the Virtual Environments Lab of the Science and Technology in Archaeology and Culture Research Center (STARC).
The launch event of ATRIUM brought together over 60 guests from across Europe over two days of activities’ planning and discussion. During the kick-off meeting, several breakout sessions took place, where the plans and workflows for various activities were planned and debated, including discussions about how best to support the project’s goals of improving metadata quality, developing training materials and services, and strengthening the ties between the infrastructures and partners involved. One of ATRIUM’s goals is to facilitate the development and delivery of training for digital humanities scholars in order to develop a curriculum to support cross-disciplinary research.
Link to the website here.
