Advanced Research Data Environment for the Arts and Humanities (ARDEAH)
About two weeks ago, the SARI team had the privilege of co-hosting the kick-off meeting of the swissuniversities funded project
Advanced Research Data Environment for the Arts and Humanities (ARDEAH)
together with the colleagues of takin.solutions, George Bruseker and Denitsa Nenova.
ARDEAH sets out to broaden access to established Open Research Data practices and tools for cultural heritage data, making them usable for a wide community of domain experts and beyond data modelling specialists. The project strengthens interoperability, community engagement, and sustainable data practices, while also addressing key challenges related to AI- and Machine Learning-generated research data (see project description for more). The kick-off was structured around three sessions:
Session 1: Thomas Hänsli, George Bruseker and Matteo Romanello introduced the goals and scope of ARDEAH.
Session 2: George Bruseker and Denitsa Nenova presented the technical architecture and core components of the project, especially the Zellij platform for documenting and sharing semantic patterns. Florian Kräutli, Sophie Hammer and Matteo Romanello addressed the topics of data crosswalks and the documentation of digital provenance.
Session 3: Lukas Rosenthaler chaired this session, featuring invited input papers that provided crucial conceptual and infrastructural perspectives for ARDEAH. We were honoured to welcome the following speakers:
- Robert Sanderson (Yale University, Linked.Art)
- Alexandra Büttner (NFDI4Culture)
- Ivan Subotic (DaSCH)
- Annika Glauner (ETH Zürich)
- Cristina Grisot (DARIAH / SSHOC-CH)
- Christiane Sibille (ETH Library)
We are deeply grateful to all guest speakers for their valuable contributions. Their insights not only underscored the urgency and relevance of ARDEAH, but also opened up concrete starting points and inspiring perspectives for future collaboration within national and international research infrastructures in the cultural heritage domain.
The ARDEAH project has just begun – stay tuned for updates as the work progresses!
The full ARDEAH project description can be found at Advanced Research Data Environment for the Arts and Humanities (ARDEAH)