Research Infrastructures for Fair Data Sharing in the Heritage Sector

The European Commission is making major investments in research infrastructures and online data services in the heritage sector, with a plethora of national and European initiatives and a wealth of acronyms: Europeana, European Open Science Cloud (EOSC), E-RIHS (European Research Infrastructure for Heritage Science), and most recently the ECCCH (European Collaborative Cloud for Cultural Heritage), to name but a few. Many of these services are also being mirrored at national level. The landscape is crowded and confusing, but it is important that the archaeological and heritage sector makes the most of these new opportunities to leverage what we need. The ARIADNE Research Infrastructure has emerged from successive European investments as a Knowledge Base and data aggregator for our sector, now providing access to 4 million archaeological resources across 40 countries. Rather than a top-down initiative it is a community-driven membership association, developing and maintaining a sustainable aggregation service and research infrastructure for archaeological and heritage data. In 2024 it has embarked on a new 4-year EU-funded project, ATRIUM, to ensure it is embedded within broader Arts and Humanities research infrastructures (DARIAH, CLARIN and OPERAS) and the EOSC marketplace. It also a member of the ECHOES consortium, which is establishing the ECCCH, to be launched in September 2024. This paper will seek to introduce the rapidly changing landscape from the perspective of an infrastructure provider, seeking input from researchers and heritage professionals on their needs and how these new European-level investments can best serve the archaeological community. Abstract taken from the EAA 2024 Abstract Book: 30th EAA Annual Meeting (Rome, Italy 2024) - Abstract Book Names, titles and affiliations are reproduced as submitted by the session organisers and/or authors. Language and wording of titles and abstracts were not revised. Technical editing: Sára Tylšová, Magda Karabáš (EAA) Design and layout: Sára Tylšová, Magda Karabáš (EAA) Design - cover: Symposia srl Design - logo: Caterina Amendola European Association of Archaeologists Rome, August 2024 © European Association of Archaeologists, 2024 ISBN 978-80-88441-08-3 30th EAA Annual Meeting (Rome, 2024) https://www.e-a-a.org/EAA2024/scientificprogramme