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Integrated Project for the European Research Infrastructure ON Cultural Heritage

IPERION CH

Towards the European Research Infrastructure for Cultural Heritage

Luca Pezzati

Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche

[email protected]

Giornata sui Beni Culturali

Roma, 24 gennaio 2013

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Summary

• Introduction
• The project IPERION CH
• IPERION CH in Italy
• Conclusions

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Introduction

Towards the European research infrastructure for cultural
heritage technologies

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FP5: LabS TECH 2001-2004

 LabS TECH (FP5 – HPRI-2000-40029), EU
contribution 0.6 MEuro)

 Thematic Network of 11 institutions
developing together networking activities
where, through the interchanging of
knowledge and joining of know-how,
laying out the bases to start joint
programmes of transnational access for
cultural heritage users.

 Coordinated by B. Brunetti, UniPG

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FP6: Eu-ARTECH 2004-2009

 Integrated Infrastructure Initiative (I3) funded by
the EU with 4.36 MEuro (FP6 – RII3-CT-2004-
506171)

 12 European research institutions for the study
and conservation of artworks

 opened access to the laboratory AGLAE (C2RMF,
Palais du Louvre)

 included access to an innovative mobile facility
MOLAB, composed of a set of advanced portable
instruments that were moved to the artworks to
be examined with non-invasive techniques.

 Coordinated by B. Brunetti, UniPG

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FP7: CHARISMA 2009-2014

 On-going I3 project, funded by the EU
with 7.6 MEuro

 http://www.charismaproject.eu
 22 European research institutions for the

study and conservation of artworks from
11 Member States
 more than 300 users (scientists,
conservators, restorers, art historians,
archaeologists,…) in 3 years of operation
 offers three different types of transnational
access.
 Coordinated by B. Brunetti, UniPG

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CHARISMA MOBILE LABORATORYimaging

XRF
X-ray diffraction
UV-vis absorption
UV-vis emission
UV-vis time decay
micro-Raman
mid-FTIR
near-FTIR
NMR-relaxometer

AFM
video microscopy
UV-vis fluo imaging
multi-NIR-scanning
…….

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Follow-up in Horizon 2020

 More than 12 years of successful I3
projects demonstrate the need for the
creation of a stable European distributed
research infrastructure for cultural heritage
research and technology.

 Exploiting the consolidated experience of
CHARISMA consortium, composed of
world-class research facilities in research
centres, universities and prestigious
culture institutions of several countries, we
aim to establish a unique permanent pan-
European research infrastructure.

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IPERION CH

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ON Cultural Heritage

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IPERION CH 2014-2018

 I3 project to be submitted at first call
of DG Research Infrastructures in
Horizon 2020 (expected Dec. 2013)

 Pre-proposal submitted on Oct. 22nd,
2012 at the EU consultation on
research infrastrucutre topics

http://ec.europa.eu/research/infrastructures/index_en.cfm?pg=consultation

 Expected pre-evaluation: Feb. 2013

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IPERION CH:  Koninklijk Instituut Voor Het Kunstpatrimonium (KIK-IRPA) – Belgium
key  Centre de recherche et de restauration des musées de France (C2RMF) –
partners
France
 CNRS Laboratoire de Recherche des Monuments Historiques - Centre de

recherche sur la conservation des collections (LRMH-CRCC) – France
 CNRS Institut photonique d’analyse non-destructive européen des matériaux

anciens and Société Civile Synchrotron Soleil (IPANEMA-SOLEIL) – France
 Doerner Institut, Bayerische Staatsgemäldesammlungen (DI-BS) – Germany
 Rheinisch-Westfaelische Technische Hochschule Aachen (RWTH) – Germany
 Foundation for Research and Technology Hellas (IESL-FORTH) – Greece
 Idryma Ormylia (OF-ADC) – Greece
 Magyar Tudomanyos Akademia Atommagkutato Intezete (ATOMKI-HAS) –

Hungary
 Magyar Tudomanyos Akademia Wigner Fizikai Kutatközpont (BNC-Wigner) –

Hungary
 Italian Joint Research Unit, led by the National Research Council of Italy (IJRU-

CNR) associating participants from research institutes, universities and from the
Ministry of Cultural Heritage (MIBAC) – Italy
 Cultural Heritage Agency of the Netherlands (OCW-RCE) – Netherlands
 Uniwersytet Mikolaja Kopernika w Toruniu (UMK) – Poland
 Laboratorio Nacional de Engenharia Civil (LNEC) – Portugal
 Museo Nacional del Prado (Prado) – Spain
 British Museum (BM) – United Kingdom
 The National Gallery (NGL) – United Kingdom

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Strategic lines

 Access to the most advanced facilities and competences
(top EU research opened to users)

 Joint research to improve the offer to users
(bring EU research beyond the state of the art)

 Knowledge exchanges and sharing of resources
(communication)

 Common practices for diagnostics and conservation
(interoperability)

 Transfer of knowledge and of technologies to industry
(foster innovation and help growth)

 Collaborations with other infrastructures and EC initiatives
(openness)

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Transnational access programmes

 ARCHLAB: access to a huge number of datasets on the study
of a wide variety of cultural heritage objects held in the files,
archives and databases of prestigious European museums and
conservation institutions.

 MOLAB: access to advanced mobile analytical equipment for
in situ measurements on precious, fragile or immovable
objects that cannot be analysed in laboratories.

 FIXLAB: access to European world-class large-scale facilities
(synchrotrons, neutron sources, accelerators) for cutting-edge
scientific investigations on samples, or full objects.

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Selected joint research targets

 Integration of analytical techniques in a new generation of portable
instruments, and of new imaging devices, for optimising mobile diagnostics.

 Development of new methods for improving the analysis of organic
components in historical and archaeological samples (e.g. biomolecular
techniques).

 Development of special instruments and methods for measuring in places
where the harsh environmental conditions hinder efficient in-situ diagnostics
(e.g. caves, hypogea, vaults, etc.).

 Exploitation and assessment of dating by optical spectroscopy, a technique
that is promising to make C14 dating instruments portable and less
expensive.

…

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Networking activities

 Strategies for exploitation and knowledge transfer of the innovative project results to industry.
Organisation of promotional events and opening of collaborations to establish marketplaces for the
transfer of technical solutions for diagnostics.

 Regional dissemination of IPERION-CH access opportunities by organisation of periodical “on-site
training camps” in selected locations, like historical centres or sites, or the premises of large museums or
graduate schools for conservation. Here best practises and methodological approaches in-the-field using
innovative mobile instruments can be transferred directly to new potential users, to students and to
enterprises. These events will be complemented by wide dissemination and promotion actions in the
regions where they will be located.

 Definition of best practices and protocols for measurements with the infrastructure’s fixed and mobile
instruments. Optimisation of the access offer by proposing to users customised lists of integrated
techniques and measurement workflows for different projects, tuned to the object to be diagnosed and
the scopes of the research.

 Foresight study on strategies for reducing object sampling through the development of more efficient
non-invasive techniques and instruments for examination of stratigraphy.

 Strategies for accessing, processing, exchanging and preserving complex datasets obtained by combining
diagnostics (collaboration with DARIAH).

…
 Development of strategies for co-funding and long-term sustainability of the consortium, including the

preparation of a proposal to establish an ERIC on cultural heritage.

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IPERION CH Mission

 To continue the work of its successful predecessors I3s,
exploiting their results, extending the current European
network and preparing it to operate as a stable RI.

 To host the legal preparatory phase of the proposal for a
European Research Infrastructure Consortium (ERIC) on
CH

 Duration: 4 years
 Type of activity: networking
 ERIC proposal submission: 2018

 IPERION CH, if successful, will be the last I3 in the line!

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IPERION CH in Italy

Building the Italian Research Infrastructure on Cultural
Heritage

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IPERION CH Italian partnership

 The coordinator of the Italian Joint Research
Unit (and of the project) will be the CNR

 Partners now in CHARISMA:

 University of Perugia (Coordinator)
 University of Bologna
 Opificio delle Pietre Dure
 CNR ICVBC
 CNR IFAC
 CNR INO
 APRE

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IPERION CH and the Italian RI

 Use IPERION CH Joint Research Unit to build the
nucleus of the Italian RI on Cultural Heritage
technologies (thus extending what was called IRICH
in the 2010 Roadmap of RIs by MIUR)

 Extend the partnership to include all Italian
stakeholders (2013-2018), building the Italian RI

 Use the Italian RI as the Italian partner of the ERIC
proposal in 2018

 Proposal for the Italian RI submitted to the MIUR by the
CNR in Oct. 2012

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IPERION CH and Tuscany

 IPERION CH network centre will be Florence

(CNR-OPD collaboration, subject of a specific
framework agreement between Regione, CNR and
MiBAC)

 The Italian RI (assembled as described) will
have as its central node this OPD-CNR joint
research centre

 The ERIC on CH, if successful, could possibly
be hosted in Florence too

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Conclusions

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Conclusions

 The establishment of the European research infrastructure
for Cultural Heritage Technologies is a target within reach
in a few years

 Its centre can be located in Florence
 Within this infrastructure, Italy can play a major role, in

collaboration with the JPI Cultural Heritage.

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Contacts

www.charismaproject.eu
www.coirich.it
arte.ino.it
[email protected]

…thank you for your attention!