About

The Northern Heritage Network and archive provides a resource for promoting and preserving heritage. Borne from the work of a number of large-scale projects such as the Northern Periphery Arctic Programme, North Sea Region and Horizon 2020. The network aims to bring communities together using technologies to engage and promote heritage. These projects include: · The CINE project which brought together heritage organisations, digital enterprises and knowledge organisations to develop interactive maps, galleries, reconstructions and archives. · The ongoing STRATUS project which is pushing the boundaries of Virtual Reality, creating linked virtual reality tours, and collective experiences. · The CUPIDO project spread across the North Sea Region, and provides Workshop and VR materials for development. · TechSolns COVID-response technology project. · EU-LAC Museums project

The network provides infrastructure which supports the goal of forming a transnational network that will bring together knowledge institutions, heritage organisations, and SMEs to explore how digital technologies can be used to preserve and promote heritage within and beyond the NPA-area.

The geographical focus of the network is: Finland, Sweden, Norway, Denmark, Scotland, Island of Ireland, Faroe Islands, Iceland, Greenland and the Baltic countries.

The network has been designed to:

• establish creative collaboration between members with differing capacities but share the interest in digital promotion and preservation of heritage
• sustain this sector in a post-COVID world.
• emphasise on emergent technologies such as digitisation, online galleries, virtual tours, virtual reality, and augmented reality exhibiting.
• promote the use of digital heritage technologies to empower communities to achieve positive outcomes with respect to social inclusion, social cohesion, wellbeing and prosperity.

The network will hold seminars, create a forum, and provide access to the virtual museum framework to be used by the network members. Augmented heritage dissemination systems such as the Centre of Excellence, Virtual Time Travel framework, and online galleries will reside within a virtual museum infrastructure. These will be available through the North and connect to larger repositories such as Europeana and Zenodo.

The network will contribute to the continuous knowledge exchange platform expanding on the work of the NPA-project PHIVE (Promoting Heritage in Virtual Environments) to promote digital heritage skills. For more information contact: info@northernheritage.org Sign-up to the network here.