InTaVia – In/Tangible European Heritage: Visual Analysis, Curation, and Communication

The InTaVia project addresses barriers in accessing and utilizing European cultural heritage data by integrating tangible and intangible assets through advanced technological solutions. Key technical components of the project include:

1. Data Integration and Contextualization: InTaVia combines tangible cultural objects from museums, archives, and libraries with intangible assets like biographical databases, facilitating mutual contextualization and enriching the cultural narrative.
2. Innovative Data Creation and Curation: The project pioneers new methodologies for data creation, curation, and transnational integration, enhancing the quality and accessibility of cultural heritage information.
3. Visual Analytics Environment: A cutting-edge visual analytics environment is developed, enabling cultural heritage experts to access, analyze, and visually communicate collections and biographical knowledge effectively to the public.

The project comes up with innovative methods for integrating data using semantic web technologies and visual analytics methods. These methods are used to create an information portal that supports the integration, visual analysis, and communication of European cultural assets, fostering comprehensive storytelling and synoptic sensemaking. This portal alongside the methods used to create it will have significant implications for research, education, journalism, cultural tourism, creative industries, and heritage institutions.

The project brings together a transdisciplinary consortium of experts, including computer scientists in visualization, computational linguists, digital humanists, HCI researchers, historians, and cultural heritage entrepreneurs, building on existing European research infrastructures and national digital humanities projects.

Project partners

• University for Continuing Education Krems (Austria)
• Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam (Netherlands)
• Research Centre of the Slovenian Academy of Sciences and Arts (Slovenia)
• Aalto University (Finland)
• University of Southern Denmark (Denmark)
• University of Stuttgart (Germany)
• Fluxguide Ausstellungssysteme GmbH (Austria)
• University of Helsinki (Finland)