Reimagining Digital Heritage: The REEVALUATE Project’s Vision for Inclusive and Creative Reuse

At its core, REEVALUATE envisions a future where the reuse and management of digital cultural heritage is collaborative, transparent, and open to innovation. The project brings together advanced AI tools, secure digital infrastructures, and a human-centred design approach to help institutions manage every phase of an artefact’s digital life cycle — from selection and digitisation to contextualisation, collaboration, and creative reuse.

Through this integrated framework, cultural heritage institutions will be empowered to make better decisions about how to manage, contextualise, and encourage the reuse of their digital collections — all while respecting intellectual property rights and ensuring long-term sustainability. REEVALUATE pioneers AI-assisted contextualisation, AI-driven creative reuse, content validation, and smart contracts for digital rights management, and digital tokenisation to ensure transparent and traceable reuse of cultural assets.

Importantly, all tools developed under REEVALUATE are designed to be interoperable with and integrable into the future European Collaborative Cloud for Cultural Heritage (ECCCH), supporting Europe’s ambition for a more connected, interoperable, and innovative digital heritage ecosystem.

Synergies with the ARGUS Project: Building a Shared Digital Heritage Ecosystem

REEVALUATE and ARGUS share a common vision — to safeguard Europe’s cultural heritage using technology, data, and collaboration. While ARGUS focuses on advanced monitoring, risk assessment, and preventive conservation of tangible heritage through AI, drones, and multimodal data, REEVALUATE complements this work by addressing the management, contextualisation, and creative reuse of the digital assets generated through such processes.

The potential synergies between REEVALUATE and ARGUS are significant:

• Shared Data and Interoperability: ARGUS’ rich collection of digital data — including 3D models, environmental measurements, and deterioration maps — could feed directly into the REEVALUATE framework, enhancing the contextualisation and prioritisation of cultural artefacts. In addition, they could be later published or visualized through the REEVALUATE Marketplace for reuse in educational or creative contexts.
• Enhanced Decision-Making: By combining ARGUS’ predictive models on environmental risks with REEVALUATE’s lifecycle management tools, institutions could make more informed decisions about both conservation and digitisation priorities.
• Creative Reuse of ARGUS Digital Assets: The high-quality digital models produced by ARGUS could be reused and reinterpreted through REEVALUATE’s creative platforms, opening new avenues for education, tourism, and artistic engagement. Such assets could be showcased or made discoverable via the REEVALUATE Marketplace, linking monitoring outcomes to public engagement and creative storytelling.
• Shared Vision for the ECCCH: Both projects contribute to the European Collaborative Cloud for Cultural Heritage, supporting an interoperable, data-driven ecosystem that connects preventive conservation with sustainable digital reuse.