ECHOES Integration Strategy for datasets, tools and workflows with potential for reuse in ECHOES (D3.1)

The aim of the ECHOES Integration Strategy (D3.1) is to facilitate the development of the Cultural Heritage Cloud as a shared platform offering access to data, advanced digital tools and state-of-the-art workflows for the creation and analysis of a new generation of semantically rich and collectively produced heritage assets. The strategy will help ensure that the Cultural Heritage Cloud becomes a coherent, sustainable and user-friendly infrastructure, optimising the reuse of the outcomes of EU and national cultural heritage projects, to meet the needs of the cultural heritage and research communities. Building on a series of principles the Integration Strategy determines integration priorities by considering community needs, technical readiness and reusability criteria enabling informed, collective and transparent decisions, through the ECHOES Integration Taskforce (EITF). Complementing the integration strategy, the ECHOES Integration Roadmap (D3.2) operationalises the integration principles outlined in the strategy. Through the implementation of the roadmap, ECHOES will be able to demonstrate the breadth, depth, diversity, and granularity of integrations realised through a series of integration metrics complemented by integration examples.