n-Dame_Heritage

n-Dimensional analysis and memorisation ecosystem  
for building cathedrals of knowledge in Heritage Science

Heritage research transforms the interaction between material objects and multidisciplinary studies into a dynamic arena for producing collective knowledge. In the digital age, this interaction becomes a privileged framework for the collective analysis and interpretation of facts, objects, and phenomena, gathering a new generation of data towards the construction of tomorrow’s scientific and cultural resources – our future heritage. A critical question arises: how can we capture and analyze the convergence of diverse individual perspectives on the same object of study? How can we examine their processes of construction, overlap, and fusion to reveal new knowledge?


Our innovative approach to computational modeling and digitization leverages the exceptional experimental framework of the scientific worksite on Notre-Dame de Paris Open In New, currently involving 175 researchers across diverse disciplines (archaeology, anthropology, architecture, history, chemistry, physics, computer science). This initiative is building an emblematic corpus of digitally born data, capturing and reflecting contemporary scientific practices in heritage science. Our objective transcends the mere digitization of physical objects, extending instead to a profound understanding of these objects and the knowledge associated with them. This project not only shifts the focus from the object to the knowledge needed to understand it, but also explores how the complex features of the material object and the scholarly knowledge built around it interdependently enrich each other through research practices.


The n-Dame_Heritage project, funded by the European Research Council (ERC Open In New), follows the research activities of the "digital data" working group of the Notre-Dame scientific action, started since 2019 and supported by the Mission pour les Initiatives Transverses et Interdisciplinaires (MITI Open In New) of the Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS Open In New), the Ministry of Culture (MC Open In New), the Fondation des Sciences du Patrimoine (FSP Open In New), the Établissement public chargé de la conservation et de la restauration de la cathédrale Notre-Dame de Paris (RNDP Open In New).

ERC Advanced Grant 2022-2027

Host Institution: CNRS Open In New    
Host Laboratory : MAP (UPR CNRS 2002)  Open In New    
Principal Investigator: Livio De Luca Open In New

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Workshop

Mon, 20 May 2024

A cathedral of digital data and multidisciplinary knowledge for heritage science

Workshop organised by the "digital data" working group of Notre-Dame de Paris Scientific Project

19-21 June 2024, Auditorium Pierre Desnuelle, CNRS Joseph Aiguier Campus, Marseilles

As part of the Notre-Dame de Paris research project, interaction between different disciplines has been crucial to enriching our understanding of a complex heritage object, while renewing our thinking on collaborative methods in the digital age.

The 'digital data' working group's approach to computational modelling and digitisation takes advantage of this wide-ranging scientific project, bringing together specialists from a variety of fields (archaeology, anthropology, architecture, history, chemistry, physics, computing) to develop a body of data that reflects current scientific practice in the study of heritage.

Following thematic paths from the material object to its digitisation, and then from data to multidisciplinary knowledge, these study days are structured around sessions presenting the advances made by the members of the 'digital data' working group and round tables to discuss the issues relating to these advances with the representatives of the other working groups of the scientific site (wood, stone, structure, acoustics, decoration, heritage emotions, etc.). The aim of this structure is to encourage a rich, interdisciplinary exchange of ideas, enabling in-depth discussions on the methodologies, results obtained and prospects to be developed in the coming years as part of the nDame_Heritage ERC project.

Although focused on data from Notre-Dame de Paris, this event aims to extend its reflections and methodologies to the wider field of heritage science. Our aim is to lay the foundations for understanding and managing scientific data for the purposes of heritage knowledge, conservation and restoration.

The workshop is open to the public, with registration necessary to attend in person or by videoconference.


https://ndame2024.sciencesconf.org

Wed, 1 Jun 2022   Job opportunities

Position 1

The ERC n-Dame_Heritage Project and its host institution CNRS are inviting applications for seven open positions:

Click on each position below for further details and instructions on how to apply.

Two years (renewable up to four years) researcher position in Digital Humanities

Knowledge formalisation, data curation and analysis in cultural heritage

Two-years (renewable up to four years) researcher position in Computer Science. 

Knowledge engineering, machine learning, multimedia content classification and retrieval

Two-years (renewable up to four years) research engineer position in Computer Science. 

Full stack development, Cloud computing, Web services

Three-Years PhD student position in Data Science for Cultural Heritage

n-Dimensional analysis and exploration of heritage science data in mixed reality

Two-years (renewable up to four years) study engineer position on multimodal 3D digitisation

Laser scanning,photogrammetry, RTI, geometric and visual processing applied to architecture and remains

Two-years (renewable up to 4 years) study engineer position on digital curation of heritage science data

Data collection, Data curation, FAIR principles, heritage science.

Two-years (renewable up to 4 years) study engineer position on semantic annotation of heritage data

Semantic annotation of heterogeneous data (text, images, videos, 3D models, …)

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Position 7

Application deadline: June 22, 2022. Extended deadline : June 30, 2022. Interviews (only for selected candidates) : July2022 

Contracts are expected to start between October and December 2022. 


Candidates can apply for several positions, depending on their education and skills. Nevertheless, each application should be considered as a unique context and the cover letter should be targeted according to the specific activities of each job offer.

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