REEVALUATE is a Horizon Europe project addressing the complex challenges of managing digitised Cultural Heritage (CH). We aim to provide a holistic solution that fosters collaboration, boosts creative reuse, and promotes democratic, inclusive processes for prioritising and contextualising CH.

The project begins by assessing current digitisation challenges and opportunities. It will then develop a modular framework supporting the entire lifecycle of digitised artefacts – encompassing prioritisation, contextualisation, secure storage, collaboration, and reuse. Key technological enablers developed within REEVALUATE will be made freely available for integration into the European Collaborative Cloud for Cultural Heritage (ECCCH).

Stakeholder participation is central to the framework. It provides tools enabling diverse stakeholders to both contribute their perspectives on CH artefacts and reuse them effectively. AI techniques will be integrated throughout to assist manual contextualisation, enhance prioritisation via public input, visualise creative reuse ideas, propose collaborations and reuse cases, and validate the context of reused artefacts.

The framework comprehensively addresses secure storage of digitised artefacts and Intellectual Property Rights (IPR) management through CH object tokenisation and smart contracts governing reuse. It also establishes a standardised semantic representation of artefact metadata to significantly improve accessibility and discoverability, while enabling automated detection of misuse.

Crucially, CH institutions can adopt the REEVALUATE enablers modularly or as a complete suite, according to their specific needs. Ultimately, REEVALUATE equips the European CH sector with a powerful toolset to manage digitised collections more effectively, open processes to society, and unlock societal value through the creative reuse of digital CH.

EFHA lead the research related tasks on CH digitisation and coordinate the execution of all pilot cases. Moreover it will be responsible of coordinating the preparation of evidence-based recommendations and policy scenarios for managing more effectively digitisation and reuse of digitised cultural heritage.