Project Access to Context awarded E-RIHS Grant
Amsterdam, 9 January 2025 – The Huygens Institute has been awarded a €60,000 grant for the project ‘Access to Context: Data envelopes for Digital Cultural Heritage in Practice’. It is one of five projects selected under the E-RIHS call for projects in the field of movable heritage by the Dutch Cultural Heritage Agency (RCE).
Thanks to the E-RIHS fund, the Huygens Institute, in collaboration with the Amsterdam City Archives and The Netherlands Institute for Sound and Vision, will be able to continue working on a standard for the sustainable disclosure of cultural heritage datasets. The data-envelopes are of added value in the sustainable disclosure of the varied datasets that research produces, compared to existing conventions in describing the data.
The project aims to answer how we deal with the specificity of cultural heritage datasets in descriptions and metadata. For example, it wants to be able to answer the question of how researchers and datamanagers can be more transparent about the bias often embedded in data and encourage responsible use of historical datasets. In addition, the project looks at what information both individual users and machines need. And finally, the project will provide a concrete solution to put FAIR principles into practice.
The E-RIHS (European Research Infrastructure Heritage Science) call is for short-term projects of up to one year in the field of movable heritage. The projects involve at least three parties, including a museum and a knowledge institution. All projects contribute to improving the research and knowledge infrastructure in the Netherlands in the field of movable heritage.
For more information about this project, keep an eye on our website and posts on our social media. A Research Project page will be online soon.
