United Kingdom

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E-RIHS.uk contributes to the connection of world-class facilities and expertise across Europe driving scientific excellence in the field of Heritage Science. The UK has been an active member of the E-RIHS project since its inception and offers advanced methods and services from world leading institutions.

Our Ambition

Catalysing new cross-disciplinary research by mobilizing expertise and researchers in the humanities and natural sciences
Building state-of-the-art tools and services for research communities and the heritage industry
Leading the way in the development of digital platforms for the improved understanding, visualisation and use of heritage
Integrating world-class facilities across Europe to connect the global community of heritage science
Driving scientific excellence and innovation through visionary research projects
Developing skills and capabilities to build strong cross-disciplinary science and foster collaboration

Services

E-RIHS is a distributed infrastructure comprising facilities, resources and services from major scientific equipment (ranging from synchrotrons to portable kit), collections, archives and scientific data, as well as e-infrastructures (from archaeological fieldwork data to conservation documentation) and open science cloud.
We provide advanced services to the heritage science community and heritage industry by bringing together cutting-edge tools and expertise through four access platforms:

E-RIHS FIXLAB: access to large-scale and medium-scale fixed facilities – e.g. particle accelerators and synchrotrons, neutron and laser sources and other essentially immovable research facilities including the associated unique expertise
E-RIHS MOLAB: access to a comprehensive selection of mobile analytical instrumentation for non-invasive measurements on objects, buildings, and sites, allowing the implementation of complex multi-technique diagnostic projects for in situ investigations
E-RIHS ARCHLAB: access to physical heritage science collections, such as technical images, samples and reference materials, analytical data and conservation documentation, as stored in museums, galleries and research institutions
E-RIHS DIGILAB: online access to data concerning heritage, with the aim to make it findable, accessible, interoperable and re-usable, based on the FAIR principles. This includes and enables access to searchable registries of datasets, reference collections, thesauri, ontologies etc., and supports data interoperability through the creation of shared knowledge organization systems.