Project Title: Advancing FronTier Research In the Arts and hUManities
Acronym: ATRIUM
Coordinator: Digital Research Infrastructure for the Arts and Humanities (DARIAH)
Type of funding: European
Funding source: HORIZON-RIA
Dates: January 2024 - December 2027
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Description: Advancing FronTier Research In the Arts and hUManities (ATRIUM) will exploit and strengthen complementarities between leading European infrastructures: DARIAH, ARIADNE, CLARIN and OPERAS in order to provide vastly improved access to a rich portfolio of state-of-the-art services available to researchers across countries, languages, domains and media, building on a shared understanding and interoperability principles established in the SSHOC cluster project and other previous collaborations Arts and Humanities is a very diverse field, covering a range of disciplines and communities of practice that have different epistemological and methodological foundations: an archaeologist and an art historian studying a Mycenaean fresco will have distinct goals and use different approaches to describing their objects of research.
A literary scholar and a linguist will come to a textual corpus with radically different senses of what a corpus is and what questions can be asked of it. Yet research infrastructures in the Arts and Humanities domain must cater to a very wide range of stakeholders and offer services that cut across discipline-specific boundaries.
ATRIUM will tackle this heterogeneity within the Arts and Humanities by going deep and wide at the same time: on the one hand, ATRIUM will make a groundbreaking contribution to the consolidation and expansion of services, including data services, specifically in the field of archaeology, while, on the other hand, facilitating access to a wide array of essential text, image and sound-based services that benefit a number of other disciplines within the Arts and Humanities, and cover all phases of the research data lifecycle (creating, processing, analysing, preserving, providing access to and reusing).
The Cyprus Institute with the Andreas Pittas Art Characterization Laboratories and the Virtual Environment Laboratory participate in the project with several activities. Particularly, the two laboratories are involved in the provision of enhanced workflows for frontier research in the Humanities, enabling and implementing them for leveraging the improved interoperability of data and services across the ATRIUM Research Infrastructures. Specifically, the two laboratories of the Cyprus Institute will develop 3D-based workflows that will lead to the final implementation of demonstrators based on real-world research-driven arts and humanities research questions which provide tests for the workflows. Moreover, through the ATRIUM’s Transnational Access (TNA) scheme, researchers will have the possibility to carry out training visits both at the Andreas Pittas Art Characterization Laboratories and to the Virtual Environment Laboratory to support their research by benefitting of the instruments and expertise of the two Cyprus Institute infrastructures.