ECHOLOT project

🤩 Meet the ECHOLOT partners!

ECHOLOT is a multidisciplinary project that brings together 15 partners from 12 countries who are experts inthe fields of arts and culture, media studies, information and library science, knowledge engineering, computer science, design and prototyping, management and communication.

🤝 We will all work together to achieve ECHOLOT's main objective: to enable the creation, provision and reuse of high-quality, semantically rich, interoperable cultural data.

✨ ECHOLOT at the Transformation Digital Art 2026!

On 27 March, ECHOLOT coordinator @lozross@post.lurk.org presented the project at the annual international symposium dedicated to the preservation of digital art by our case study participant LI-MA – Living Media Art.

The panel, titled 'Connecting Archives, Collections and Data', discussed topics ranging from infrastructure and data modelling to terminology use in the organisation of media art and festival archives.

More information: https://www.linkedin.com/feed/update/urn:li:activity:7444673682465034240

✨ ECHOLOT at the ECHOES second annual event.

Yesterday, @lozross@post.lurk.org from @tibhannover@openbiblio.social, the project coordinator, took part in a round-table discussion at the annual ECHOES event. There, she presented the project's key features, including its objectives and the case studies through which ECHOLOT will be validated.

This was a great opportunity to connect with our sister projects and cultural heritage's professionals.
🤩 Thank you for having us!

💫 ECHOLOT meeting in Bilbao.

Today was devoted to teamwork!

All the partners, third partners and service providers working on each case study were brought together so that they could brainstorm fundamental aspects such as:
🔹Goals.
🔹Needs.
🔹Tasks.
🔹Scenarios.
🔹Pain points.
🔹Requirements.

🤝 The different topics discussed today have allowed everyone involved in each case study to gain an in-depth understanding of their colleagues' tasks.

📢 BIG NEWS: The ECHOLOT website is now available!

🌐 https://echolot-eccch.eu/
ECHOLOT has reached an important milestone: launching our official website. Here you will find information about:
🔹 Who we are.
🔹 What our vision is.
🔹 Our Foundation.
🔹 The impact we hope to have through our case studies.
🔹 The resources and news we will produce.

Visit the site and discover how ECHOLOT will enable the the creation, provision and reuse of high-quality, semantically rich, interoperable cultural data.

💫 ECHOLOT at the MediaWiki Users and Developers Conference Spring 2026.

On 25 March, ECHOLOT partners Jeroen De Dauw from @ProfessionalWiki@mastodon.social and Bernhard Krabina from KM-A Knowledge Management gave a presentation at the #MediaWiki Users and Developers Conference called 'Introducing NeoWiki: Modern structured data for MediaWiki'.
🎯 During their talk, they introduced #NeoWiki, an open-source structured data system baked by ECHOLOT.

You can view their presentation here: https://lnkd.in/e-6_rWvc

📢 GREAT NEWS: ECHOLOT will be at the ECHOES second annual event, and you can follow it online!

The event will feature representatives from the European Commission, and the roundtable discussion titled 'Cultural Heritage Cloud Ecosystem: Discussion with sister projects', where ECHOLOT will participate.

Key details:
📆 Wednesday 18 March, 16:15–17:15.
📍 In person at the National Museum in Poznań.
🌐 Online registration is available via this link: https://lnkd.in/e92eEXSN

Do not miss it!

ECHOLOT kick-off meeting 💫!

The ECHOLOT consortium is meeting for the first time today and tomorrow to analyse each work package, establish the roadmap, and review all the necessary details to ensure that everyone is ready to start work.

The first day of the meeting began with a warm welcome from the project coordinator, @rossenoval from @tibhannover@openbiblio.social, followed by a detailed presentation from the Project Officer, Alexandros Koutsimpelas.

Stay tuned for the rest of the kick-off meeting!

ECHOLOT kick-off meeting 💫!

The ECHOLOT consortium is meeting for the first time today and tomorrow to analyse each work package, establish the roadmap, and review all the necessary details to ensure that everyone is ready to start work.

The first day of the meeting began with a warm welcome from the project coordinator, @rossenoval from @tibhannover@openbiblio.social, followed by a detailed presentation from the Project Officer, Alexandros Koutsimpelas.

Stay tuned for the rest of the kick-off meeting!

𝗣𝗿𝗲𝘀𝘀 𝗿𝗲𝗹𝗲𝗮𝘀𝗲 #𝟭 𝗳𝗿𝗼𝗺 𝗘𝗖𝗛𝗢𝗟𝗢𝗧: 𝗘𝗻𝗮𝗯𝗹𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗰𝗿𝗲𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻, 𝗽𝗿𝗼𝘃𝗶𝘀𝗶𝗼𝗻 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗿𝗲𝘂𝘀𝗲 𝗼𝗳 𝗵𝗶𝗴𝗵-𝗾𝘂𝗮𝗹𝗶𝘁𝘆, 𝘀𝗲𝗺𝗮𝗻𝘁𝗶𝗰𝗮𝗹𝗹𝘆 𝗿𝗶𝗰𝗵, 𝗶𝗻𝘁𝗲𝗿𝗼𝗽𝗲𝗿𝗮𝗯𝗹𝗲 𝗰𝘂𝗹𝘁𝘂𝗿𝗮𝗹 𝗱𝗮𝘁𝗮.

📜https://zenodo.org/records/19354269

The ECHOLOT consortium is pleased to announce the publication of its first press release. In this release, the consortium outlines its mission and the principles on which it is founded, and presents the five real-world case studies through which its work will be validated.

🔗 Download the press release here: https://lnkd.in/ef9UM-nA

🤩 Meet the ECHOLOT partners!

@dariaheu@mastodon.social enhances and supports digitally-enabled research and teaching in the arts and humanities.

🎯As the leader of the 'Evaluation and Further Development' work package in ECHOLOT, DARIA and its affiliated entity, OEAW, provide key digital humanities and heritage data expertise.

Find out more about ECHOLOT and its partners: https://echolot-eccch.eu/

🤩 Meet the ECHOLOT partners!

@tibhannover@openbiblio.social is a member of the Leibniz Association, a prestigious, interdisciplinary organisation comprising 96 independent research institutions.

🎯 As coordinator of ECHOLOT, TIB ensures the long-term impact and usability of ECHOLOT.
🎨 TIB also coordinates the 'Connecting Media Art Collections' case study, leading efforts to harmonise and interlink dispersed media art collections.

Find out more about ECHOLOT and its partners: https://echolot-eccch.eu/