ECCCH (Cultural Heritage Cloud / ECHOES)
Published May 29, 2026 | Version v1
Project deliverable Open

ECHOES The Digital Commons (D7.1)

Authors/Creators

  • 1. ROR icon Cyprus Institute
  • 2. Foundation for Research and Technology - Hellas (FORTH)
  • 3. FORTH/ ICS - Foundation of Research and Technology
  • 4. ROR icon FORTH Institute of Computer Science
  • 5. ROR icon Université de Tours
  • 6. Maison des Sciences de l'Homme Val de Loire
  • 7. Europeana

Contributors

  • 1. ROR icon National Research Council
  • 2. ROR icon Italian Institute of Technology
  • 3. ROR icon Cyprus Institute
  • 4. The Cyprus Institute
  • 5. Fraunhofer Institute of Optronics, System Technologies and Image Exploitation (IOSB)

Description

The deliverable describes the rationale for creating the Heritage Digital Twin (HDT) and  its Ontology (HDTO), as the core ontology for organizing the data forming the ECCCH’s  Knowledge Base and provides a detailed description of its classes and properties, along  with concrete examples and references to CIDOC-CRM extensions the HDTO refers to.   

Currently, at this page - https://isl.ics.forth.gr/ontology/echoes/html/HDT_v1.1.html you can navigate through the HDTO’s classes and properties.

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Additional details

Funding

European Commission
ECHOES - European Cloud for Heritage OpEn Science 101157364

Dates

Submitted
2026-05-29

References

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