Applying Reactive Twins to Enhance Monument Information Systems (ARTEMIS) is a European commission funded project that seeks to utilize a Digital Twin approach to better research and practice within conservation and safeguarding of cultural heritage. The project begins in January 2025 and will run for three years.
Reactive digital twins are a digital representation of a physical resource combined with analytics that track changes associated with that resource. ARTEMIS will use reactive digital twins to forecast the consequences of real life events, such as deterioration, on cultural heritage. This will allow these events to be addressed and identify and remedy potential damage to cultural heritage before it occurs. The creation of digital twins can also improve visitor experience through immersive encounters with cultural heritage, as well as advancing research and education.
ARTEMIS’ main objectives are:
- To offer “advanced modelling and prediction capabilities for scientific and policy users” and a method to “to replace physical experiments and interventions by using digital twins”.
- To enhance competitiveness and improve effectiveness of European RIs.
- To enable the development of better informed and more effective decision support systems.
The HSDS is participating in this project as part of its management by the Archaeology Data Service (ADS).
The ADS is involved in multiple work packages within the project, leading work on: Setting up the ARTEMIS digital infrastructure (WP10), Infrastructure implementation (WP11) and infrastructure release (WP12).
This project is a collaboration between, PIN SOC.CONS. A R.L. – Servizi Didattici E Scientifici Per l’Università Di Firenze, the ARIADNE Research Infrastructure, Digital Research Infrastructure for the Arts and Humanities (DARIAH), Istituto Nationale di Fisica Nucleare, Koninklijk Instituut voor het Kunstpatrimonium, University of York, Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche, Athina-Erevnitiko Kainotomias Stis Technologies Tis Pliroforias Ton Epikoinonion Kai Tis Gnosis, Znanstvenoraziskovalni Center Slovenske Akademija Znanosti in Umetnosti, Laboratório Nacional de Engenharia Civil, Hochschule für Angewandte Wissenschaften Hof, Università Degli Studi Di Firenze, Athens University of Economics and Business – Research Centre, Alma Mater Studiorum – Università di Bologna, Smarteducationlab, Prisma Cultura S.R.L., Pixelated realities PO, Soluciones Inmersivas SL, Numena GmbH, Phasmatic Private Company, Aedeka SRL, Inception SRL, Centro per la Conservazione ed il Restauro dei Beni Cultura la Venaria Reale Fondazione, and Opificio delle Pietre Dure.
