EPOCH is a “Network of Excellence” funded by the European Commission. About a hundred European cultural institutions join their efforts to improve the quality and effectiveness of the use of Information and Communication Technology for Cultural Heritage. Participants include university departments, research centres, heritage institutions, such as museums or national heritage agencies, and commercial enterprises, together endeavouring to overcome the fragmentation of current research in this field. The network promotes the integration of research efforts in five vital subfields: - Field Recording and Data Capturing
- Data Organisation, Provenance and Standards
- Reconstruction and Visualisation
- Heritage Education and Communication
- Planning for sustainability of heritage projects
By initiating and supporting a wide range of activities to the benefit of the network members and the wider community, EPOCH promotes interdisciplinary integration in the following fields: - Undertaking integrating activities to create an integrated information base on the current and potential use of ICT in cultural heritage, the obstacles to progress in terms of both the technical research terms and the understanding of the socio-economic and business issues and to enhance use of existing resources.
- Performing research to complete the toolkit for creating cultural heritage applications and create an integrated infrastructure
- Spreading Excellence through on-line services and resources, dissemination activities, education, training and staff mobility.
| EPOCH is coordinated by the University of Brighton (UK) and is led by a core team of four institutions: the University of Brighton, the Ename Center for Public Archaeology (BE), the Catholic University of Leuven (BE) and PIN, a not-for-profit organisation of the University of Florence (IT). EPOCH’s activity has been organised into four major workpackages, each under the supervision of one of the core partners: For more information visit: |
