ATRIUM Mid-Term Event 2026

By Sheena Bassett

General Assembly & Internal Meetings

The 2nd ATRIUM Annual Event was held in Italy and started with the General Assembly on the 26th February, hosted by PIN in Prato, where project participants shared their latest results and planned their work for the next period.

Following this, on Friday the 27th, the meeting continued at the tourismA exhibition at the Congress Palace in Florence. During the morning session, the project’s sustainability was foremost on the agenda. An in-depth impact assessment has already been underway for several months, which will continue for the duration of ATRIUM and the results of which will help guide future research initiatives by the participating Research Infrastructures.

In addition, a sub-team were involved in a Horizon “booster” programme where, with the help of an external consultant, they have focused on two specific outputs from the project in order to determine the best means for communicating these to the research community and to encourage their uptake as far as possible:

•  Text-based workflows guidance to ensure quality metadata for existing Catalogues and Repositories in the Arts and Humanities.
• Peer Review Framework for non-traditional research outputs, e.g. datasets and 3D models

 This programme will be applied to more outputs over the next two years.

Matej Durco (DARIAH) then presented the proposed plan to ensure the sustainability of the results from the ATRIUM project. DARIAH is the natural home for many of these outputs since the RI maintains the Social Sciences & Humanities Open Cloud (SSHOC) Marketplace which is home to over 50 ATRIUM services and software. DARIAH also provides extensive training (e.g. via the DARIAH Campus).

 In the last session of the morning, Franco Niccolucci addressed connections with other projects. Both ECHOES and ARTEMIS were mentioned – the Reactive Heritage Digital Twins being developed in ARTEMIS are of great interest and align well with ATRIUM’s objectives.

Public Presentations at TourismA

The public ATRIUM session took place in the afternoon from 15:00-18:00. This consisted of a series of presentations which were aimed at the public audience. After the opening introduction by Franco, Toma Tasovac (DARIAH) provided an overview of the project which was followed by an overview of workflows by Anne Baillot (DARIAH) and Emilie Page-Perron (University of York). Carole Delmazo (OPERAS) presented the recent skillset survey results.

After a short break, the session moved onto presentations from four non-professional communities, i.e. those involving members of the public! O. Lečbychová (ARUB) described how metal detectorists in the Czech Republic worked closely with the National Museum and Ulf Jakobsson (SND) presented the Swedish Rock Art Community and the positive effect that digitisation has had. Antonello Gregorini from NURNET in Sardinia talked about the work on preserving and promoting Nuraghi culture that they do. Last, but not least, Ginevra Niccolucci (PRISMA) presented AGLAIA,  the ARIADNE Glossary in LIS And IS for Archaeology which is covered in this article.

From Friday through to Sunday the 1st March, ATRIUM also had a booth (along with ARTEMIS) at tourismA where there was a video display, printed information and project members on hand to answers questions from the attendees and explain about the project. With its wide range of exhibits and activities from various organisations involved in all aspects of cultural heritage in Italy, tourismA provides an excellent opportunity to engage with the public and inform them about the purpose and value of academic research.