Smart Collection Ingestion in the European Cultural Heritage Cloud: Toward Scalable, Semantically Enriched, Interoperable Cataloguing
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2025
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The Eurographics Association
Abstract
This paper introduces the Collection Ingestion Tool (CIT), a modular and standards-compliant component within the ECHOES European Collaborative Cloud for Cultural Heritage (ECCCH). Designed to support scalable, interoperable, and semantically enriched cataloguing, the CIT addresses the pressing needs of cultural institutions-particularly small and medium-sized ones-facing technological, organizational, and multilingual barriers in metadata management. The CIT empowers curators, researchers, and archivists to ingest, annotate, and publish cultural datasets with enhanced discoverability and interoperability integrating advanced tools for NLP and AI-powered metadata enrichment, support for Heritage Digital Representations (HDRs) (e.g. 2D/3D and associated data, metadata and paradata) asset management, and alignment with heritage metadata standards. Built atop the ECHOES infrastructure, the tool benefits from shared services such as identity management, storage, and a federated Knowledge Base compatible with Heritage Digital Representations (HDRs) principles. Through a practical workflow scenario and alignment with FAIR and LOD principles, the paper demonstrates how the CIT enables cross-domain reuse, multilingual access, and enriched user experiences while fostering sustainability and community integration across Europe's heritage sector.
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@inproceedings{10.2312:dh.20253302,
booktitle = {Digital Heritage},
editor = {Campana, Stefano and Ferdani, Daniele and Graf, Holger and Guidi, Gabriele and Hegarty, Zackary and Pescarin, Sofia and Remondino, Fabio},
title = {{Smart Collection Ingestion in the European Cultural Heritage Cloud: Toward Scalable, Semantically Enriched, Interoperable Cataloguing}},
author = {Ongaro, Paolo and Minelli, Sam Habibi and Duranti, Daniele and Poli, Naomi and Rossi, Martina and Ugoletti, Daniele and Saccoccio, Rubino and Raggioli, Alberto},
year = {2025},
publisher = {The Eurographics Association},
ISBN = {978-3-03868-277-6},
DOI = {10.2312/dh.20253302}
}