Research, Intelligence and Technology for Heritage and Market Security

Project Information

RITHMS

Grant agreement ID: 101073932

DOI

10.3030/101073932

Project closed

EC signature date 18 July 2022

Start date 1 October 2022

End date 30 September 2025

Funded under

• Civil Security for Society

Total cost

€ 4 996 972,50

EU contribution

€ 4 996 972,50

Coordinated by

FONDAZIONE ISTITUTO ITALIANO DI TECNOLOGIA
Italy

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Deliverables

Documents, reports (4)

Report on RITHMS social benefits and risks

Report providing an analysis of societal expectations benefits and risks of the developed RITHMS technologies including process automation fusion of datasets and communication of early crime solving search results to investigators

Report on initial legal requirements

Report collecting the legal framework underlying the project’s activities

RITHMS impact analysis v.1

Report providing the assessment of the projects progress towards the achievement of the expected outcomes and the identified longterm impacts initial phase

Report on the legal framework

Report on integrated analysis of the legal aspects concerning the technologies developed by the project.

Ethics Requirements (1)

H - Requirement No. 1

The informed consent procedures that will be implemented for the research participants must be submitted as a deliverable before the start of the relevant activities

Publications

Peer reviewed articles (4)

Overcoming data siloes in cultural heritage crime research: a consolidated OSINT-derived dataset on art, antiquities, and the trade in cultural goods

Author(s): Madison Leeson; Riccardo Giovanelli; Sara Ferro; Michela De Bernardin; Arianna Traviglia
Published in: Archival Science, 2025, ISSN 1573-7500
Publisher: Springer
DOI: 10.1007/S10502-025-09485-X

A novel NLP-driven approach for enriching artefact descriptions, provenance, and entities in cultural heritage

Author(s): Sara Ferro; Riccardo Giovanelli; Madison Leeson; Michela De Bernardin; Arianna Traviglia
Published in: Neural Computing and Applications, 2025, ISSN 1433-3058
Publisher: Springer
DOI: 10.1007/S00521-025-11449-2

Exploring Overlaps of Cultural Property Crime with Organised Crime in EU Policy Documents

Author(s): Patricia Faraldo Cabana
Published in: European Journal on Criminal Policy and Research, 2024, ISSN 1572-9869
Publisher: Springer
DOI: 10.1007/S10610-024-09595-9

War, art, and sanctions: social network analysis on the NACP’s databases of sanctioned Russian individuals and art collectors

Author(s): Madison Leeson; Riccardo Giovanelli; Michela De Bernardin; Arianna Traviglia
Published in: International Journal of Digital Humanities, 2024, ISSN 2524-7840
Publisher: Springer
DOI: 10.1007/S42803-024-00089-Y

Conference proceedings (3)

Art Crime Does not pay: Multiplexed Social Network Analysis in Cultural Heritage Trafficking Forensics

Author(s): Salonen, Jarno; Guarino, Alessandro
Published in: International Conference on Cyber Warfare and Security, 2024, ISSN 2048-9889
Publisher: Academic Conferences International Limited
DOI: 10.34190/ICCWS.19.1.2066

Ethical and Legal Risks of Algorithmic and AI Tools Developed to Fight Against Trafficking in Cultural Property in the RITHMS Project

Author(s): García Adán, Amara; Fuentes-Loureiro, María-Ángeles
Published in: Congreso XoveTIC: impulsando el talento científico (6º. 2023. A Coruña), 2023
Publisher: Universidade da Coruna
DOI: 10.17979/SPUDC.000024.51

Developing a Call Detail Record Generator for Cultural Heritage Preservation and Theft Mitigation: Applications and Implications

Author(s): Robert Ionut Vatasoiu, Alexandru Vulpe, Robert Florescu, Mari-Anais Sachian, George Suciu
Published in: Proceedings of the 19th International Conference on Availability, Reliability and Security, 2024
Publisher: ACM
DOI: 10.1145/3664476.3669915

Book chapters (1)

RITHMS Digital Platform: Social Network Analysis for Intelligence-Led Policing of Cultural Heritage Crime

Author(s): Madison Leeson, Michela De Bernardin, Riccardo Giovanelli, Sara Ferro, Arianna Traviglia
Published in: Studies in Art, Heritage, Law and the Market, Researching a Rigged Game: Digital Approaches to Tracing the Illicit Trade in Cultural Objects, 2025, ISBN 978-3-032-02014-7
Publisher: Springer Nature Switzerland
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-032-02014-7_5