Project description
Technology brings history to life
Technology can turn history and cultural heritage into a living resource. The EU-funded Time Machine project will digitise an enormous volume of historical, geographical, museum and library archives. Digitisation and computing infrastructure will push artificial intelligence and ICT to a new level with revolutionary interpretative models. Open access to innumerable sources and ongoing research will greatly boost education, businesses, tourism and many more fields creating new jobs.
Objective
Europe urgently needs to restore and intensify its engagement with its past. Time Machine will give Europe the technology to strengthen its identity against globalisation, populism and increased social exclusion, by turning its history and cultural heritage into a living resource for co-creating its future.
The Large Scale Research Initiative (LSRI) will develop a large-scale digitisation and computing infrastructure mapping millennia of European historical and geographical evolution, transforming kilometres of archives, large collections from museums and libraries, and geohistorical datasets into a distributed digital information system. To succeed, a series of fundamental breakthroughs are targeted in Artificial Intelligence and ICT, making Europe the leader in the extraction and analysis of Big Data of the Past. Time Machine will drive Social Sciences and Humanities toward larger problems, allowing new interpretative models to be built on a superior scale. It will bring a new era of open access to sources, where past and on-going research are open science. This constant flux of knowledge will have a profound effect on education, encouraging reflection on long trends and sharpening critical thinking, and will act as an economic motor for new professions, services and products, impacting key sectors of European economy, including ICT, creative industries and tourism, the development of Smart Cities and land use.
The CSA will develop a full LSRI proposal around the Time Machine vision. Detailed roadmaps will be prepared, organised around science and technology, operational principles and infrastructure, exploitation avenues and framework conditions. A dissemination programme aims to further strengthen the rapidly growing ecosystem, currently counting 95 research institutions, most prestigious European cultural heritage associations, large enterprises and innovative SMEs, influential business and civil society associations, and international and national institutional bodies.
Fields of science
- natural sciencescomputer and information sciencesdata sciencebig data
- natural sciencescomputer and information sciencesartificial intelligencecomputer vision
- social sciencessociologysocial issuessocial inequalities
- social sciencespolitical sciencespolitical policiescivil society
- social sciencessociologyglobalization
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1015 Lausanne
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Participants (35)
1040 Wien
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1100 Vienna
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1011 JV AMSTERDAM
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75002 Paris
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3584 CS Utrecht
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91054 Erlangen
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75002 Paris
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40126 Bologna
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94160 Saint Mande
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1012WX Amsterdam
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00-927 WARSZAWA
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4365 ESCH-SUR-ALZETTE
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52900 Ramat Gan
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30123 Venezia
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2000 Antwerpen
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10559 BERLIN
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2628 CN Delft
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75794 Paris
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1200 BB Hilversum
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76344 Eggenstein-Leopoldshafen
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80686 Munchen
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9000 Gent
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01069 Dresden
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44227 Dortmund
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1015 Wien
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75010 Paris
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61 704 Poznan
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1703 DH Heerhugowaard
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08193 BELLATERRA CERDANYOLA DEL VALLES
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2595 BE Den Haag
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The organization defined itself as SME (small and medium-sized enterprise) at the time the Grant Agreement was signed.
Participation ended
28108 Alcobendas Madrid
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56910 Carentoir
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Legal entity other than a subcontractor which is affiliated or legally linked to a participant. The entity carries out work under the conditions laid down in the Grant Agreement, supplies goods or provides services for the action, but did not sign the Grant Agreement. A third party abides by the rules applicable to its related participant under the Grant Agreement with regard to eligibility of costs and control of expenditure.
94160 Saint-Mandé
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Legal entity other than a subcontractor which is affiliated or legally linked to a participant. The entity carries out work under the conditions laid down in the Grant Agreement, supplies goods or provides services for the action, but did not sign the Grant Agreement. A third party abides by the rules applicable to its related participant under the Grant Agreement with regard to eligibility of costs and control of expenditure.
94160 Saint Mandé
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28108 Alcobendas - (Madrid)
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