Heritage buildings and objects’ digitisation & visualisation within the cloud

HERITALISE aims to revolutionize how we document and understand cultural heritage (CH) by advancing digitalization and AI-powered tools.
Our mission is to create cutting-edge digitization techniques that capture both visible and hidden features of CH assets. Using machine learning for optimized data processing, HERITALISE will transform raw data into valuable insights, connecting everything in a knowledge graph for easy exploration.

Much like Wikipedia, users can follow links to discover detailed research, findings, and relationships related to each CH object.
Our ecosystem will integrate with the European Collaborative Cloud for Cultural Heritage (ECCCH), providing a scalable, web-based platform for European CH institutions to share, access, and build on enriched digital resources for preservation and research.

Review & Protocols: Assess and define current digitization standards, methodologies and data requirements for tangible and intangible CH objects. Address gaps, set objectives and assess risks.
Advanced Data Acquisition: Enhance 2D/3D technologies (e.g., LiDAR, photogrammetry) with improved calibration, metrology and multimodal capabilities for scalable, high-quality digitization.
AI-Powered Post-Processing: Develop AI-driven worksflows, data fusion and algorithms to streamline post-processing, integrating tangible and non-tangible data for conservation insights.

HW/SW Solutions: Create tools (e.g., 3D printing, VR/AR platforms, Geo-HBIM) to enhance CH engagement, accessibility and real-time monitoring of digitized assets.​
Interoperability & Sharing: Develop open components for seamless data integration across CH databases (e.g., Europeana), leveraging APIs, semantic standards and metadata.
Impact & Dissemination: Adress tech transfer challenges, standardize web platforms and showcase digitization applications via 4 proof-of-concept use cases.

HERITALISE will provide the upcoming ECCCH with a interoperable web-based Ecosystem, advanced input data from improved digitalisation methodologies and preservation supporting tools, which will be achieved by meeting the following General Objectives (GO) and setting the conditions for a wide-scale replicability and scalability across European CH institutions/organisations across European CH institutions/organisations.

For further information, visit the HERITALISE website.