Outputs of the project titled “A FAIR-enabling citation model for Cultural Heritage Objects”, which has received funding from the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under grant agreement No 101017536 and which is supported by the EOSC Future through the RDA Open Call mechanism, based on evaluations of external, independent experts.

The aim of this project is to design an interoperable and FAIR-enabler citation model applicable to digital objects in the Cultural Heritage sector. By definition, the digital cultural heritage object (CHO) represents a complex aggregation of information whose integrative level is established by the fusion of dual physical and digital valence, where the information resource and media type inform the vehicle of the represented cultural artefact.

Starting from this seminal definition, the project intends to demonstrate the multi-dimensionality of the citation property of the cultural heritage object by defining a citation model whose reliability and trustworthiness are established according to the application, purposes, and relevance assumed by the reference citation context while preserving, at the same time, the cross-domain inheritance of the citation instance of cultural data.

The project belongs to the group of open-call projects "RDA Open Call for cross disciplinary science adoption grants" supported by EOSC Future.