The meeting provided an opportunity for participants to learn more about the development of the Cultural Heritage Cloud, a European initiative that aims to create a shared digital infrastructure connecting cultural heritage institutions and professionals across Europe. By providing collaborative tools, services and resources, the Cloud seeks to make digital cooperation more accessible, including for smaller and geographically remote organisations.
Participants were introduced to the ECHOES project and the vision behind the Cultural Heritage Cloud by Rémi Petitcol (Fondation des Sciences du Patrimoine, France). Joanna Kowalska (Poznań Supercomputing and Networking Center, Poland) then offered insights into the technical foundations of the Cloud, explaining how it will function and support collaboration between institutions, researchers and heritage professionals.
The event also highlighted ways for organisations to engage with and contribute to the development of the Cloud. Margherita Sani (NEMO) introduced opportunities for involvement, followed by presentations from Jenny Holmsen (Norwegian Directorate for Cultural Heritage) and Eiríkur Smári Sigurðarson (University of Iceland), who presented the CHAINN and NordiBri projects as examples of initiatives contributing to the future digital heritage ecosystem.
A central part of the meeting was dedicated to discussing digital cultural heritage landscapes across the Baltic and Nordic region. Representatives from Lithuania, Latvia, Norway, Sweden and Finland shared experiences from their national contexts, highlighting existing infrastructures, datasets, digital tools and collaborative initiatives.
