A consultative process, involving 21 Working Groups with over 200 expert members, has succeeded in building a consensual framework directly involving Europe’s leading decision-makers and practitioners in DCH defining and resolving existing issues spread across 7 interlinked Thematic Areas (‘the 7 Ds’): Definitions – Directions – Documentation – Dimensions – Demand- Discovery - Decisions.
The ViMM Manifesto was produced following a milestone meeting in Berlin in April 2019 where the results of over 40 Propositions emerging from the Working Groups were discussed and ranked.
The Manifesto has since been evolved into a Roadmap and Action Plan (RM/AP) for the five years following Horizon2020, covering 4 main Aspects:
I. Research and innovation under Horizon Europe;
II.A European Competence Centre network in Digital Cultural Heritage;
III. Human Resources, education and training;
IV. Policy and international cooperation.
The RM/AP has been widely discussed among stakeholders and validated by the expert community at several meetings, held in Nicosia, Vienna and Paris, during the final six months of the project.
The ViMM Communication Platform at 31 March 2019 had 1153 registered members and 1,274,172 visits/page hits from 316,456 unique visitors. The vi-mm.eu domain has reached the top ranking of the domain search on Google, Yahoo and Bing showing a visibility of 100%. Through the engagements of partners, users and experts, the site hosts 1546 posts, 61 pages and 50 case studies. ViMM has an active social media presence on Facebook, Twitter and Linked-In. During the final three months of the project Twitter impressions had reached well over 1000 per day.
ViMM has presented its work and sought the engagement of DCH stakeholder communities at over 30 external conferences and events. The project has also organised an influential internal event on advances in DCH at the European Commission in March 2017; and an additional high-level strategic stakeholder workshop on ‘How digital technologies can contribute to the preservation and restoration of Europe's most important and endangered cultural heritage sites ’, in conjunction with the European Commission and Parliament on 29/30 October 2018, in the framework of the EuroMed 2018 conference in Cyprus.
The final version of the ViMM “Decision Making Tool” (DMT) has been designed and launched on the ViMM Platform. VIMM Experts had been made accessible on the site and classified in order to connect them to the appropriate parts of the Decision Making Process (DMP) for Cultural Heritage projects.
