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Projects in the Library

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Project: Polish infrastructure for cultural heritage research - ERIHS.PL

The project's primary and immediate objective is to create a national infrastructure for physicochemical research on cultural heritage that will meet the identified needs of a broad audience and complement the existing research base and R&D infrastructure in Poland. The project will be implemented in Poland, beyond the Warsaw metropolitan region, in four voivodeships (Greater Poland Voivodeship, Kuyavian-Pomeranian Voivodeship, Lesser Poland Voivodeship, Lower Silesian Voivodeship) that are transitional and less developed regions. The project's target groups will include members of the Project Consortium, research institutions, public entities (particularly institutions involved in the protection and conservation of monuments of material cultural heritage), non-governmental organizations, and businesses. This applies to both domestic and international entities.

Polish infrastructure for cultural heritage research - ERIHS.PL will consist of the following key distributed laboratories:

  1. A laboratory for obtaining physicochemical data supporting the analysis of cultural heritage objects in mobile or stationary mode.

  2. A raw and derived data space laboratory offering secure and private data storage spaces in line with FAIR principles.

  3. A data contextualization, modeling and presentation laboratory offering access to derived data (processed raw data) and contextual data in the HDT digital twin model along with presentation and visualization modules.

  4. A data analytics laboratory comprising specialized infrastructure components for processing data from other laboratories, e.g. mechanisms for monitoring threats to heritage sites and planning remedial actions.

The infrastructure, which is the main result of the project, will be used both at the level of national and international research and scientific projects, as well as in projects implemented in collaboration with commercial partners. Project outcomes, such as services for acquiring and managing physicochemical data, support for restoration/conservation and preventive conservation activities, and visualization of physicochemical data, will significantly contribute to accelerating the process of removing barriers to heritage science, increasing access to scientific data for people with disabilities, and positively impacting the implementation of equal opportunities policies.

The "ERIHS.PL" project will therefore contribute to:

  • Strengthening research potential: Providing access to the latest technologies and expertise in the field of cultural heritage research.

  • Supporting innovation: Enabling interdisciplinary research, which will translate into new solutions in the field of conservation, restoration and promotion of heritage.

  • Development of international cooperation: Integration of Polish infrastructure with the European ERIHS network (European Research Infrastructure for Heritage Science), which will open up new opportunities for cooperation and knowledge exchange.

The E-RIHS.pl Project Consortium consists of:

  • Institute of Bioorganic Chemistry of the Polish Academy of Sciences Poznan Supercomputing and Networking Center - team led by Tomasz Parkola and Maciej Głowiak) – as the leader,

  • University of Science and Technology in Krakow (the teams of Prof. Aldona Garbacz-Klempka and Prof. Tomasz Łojewski),

  • Jagiellonian University the teams of Prof. Krzysztof Kruczała and Dr. Ewelina Miśta-Jakubowska,

  • Nicolaus Copernicus University in Torun (team of Prof. Piotr Targowski),

  • University of Wroclaw (represented by the Faculty of Chemistry, University of Wrocław – Cultural Heritage Research Laboratory and the Wroclaw University Library in Wrocław). The project manager at the UoW is Prof. Dr. Barbara Łydżba-Kopczyńska, while Tomasz Kalota is the leader of the WUL's team.

Funding: European Union under the European Funds for Modern Economy programme no. FENG.02.04-IP.04-0006/24-00.

Project value: 37 698 110,31 PLN.

Co-financing from European Funds under the FENG program: 29 295 708,40 zł


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Start date: 2025.01.01

End date: 2027.12.31

Role: Consortium member


CEE MASTER

Coordinator of CEE MASTER project is National Library in Prague. WUL has participated in that project since September 2003. Aim of that project is to create manuscript catalog database that is accessible via internet and includes descriptions of manuscripts from countries from Central and East Europe, processed on basis of MASTER standard in XML language (eXtensible Markup Language). Wroclaw University Library pledged to enter to the database at least five manuscripts descriptions weekly.


RISM

On the basis of cooperation with RISM Central in Frankfurt am Main, started in 1997, Wroclaw University Library participates in creation of computer database of music manuscripts from European libraries. That database is accessible via internet (from Sales Nisc portal) and on CD-ROMs.


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