🚨 Last couple days to take part in the ECHOLOT survey! 🔗 lnkd.in/dbxQkJ2D ⌛ Deadline: 30 June. Take part in our survey and help us understand how you use MediaWiki outside of Wikimedia projects!

🚀 ECHOLOT participates at the GOBLIN Hackathon. The GOBLIN Hackathon on #Metadata and Provenance for #KnowledgeGraphs aimed to improve the quality, context and traceability of knowledge graphs. As this topic is closely linked to ECHOLOT, David Lindemann, from @ehu.eus represented the project.

📢 ECHOLOT Insights #1 is now available! Despite its short duration, the project has already made significant progress, with various activities, collaborations, events attended and developments underway. 🔗 Don't miss it: www.linkedin.com/pulse/shapin...

🤩 ECHOLOT has been presented to the AI Factory Austria AI:AT. Daniel Dobriy, a partner of the ECHOLOT consortium from KM-A, was invited to present our project during a visit by the @eurohpc-ju.bsky.social partners, including @acdh-oeaw.bsky.social who are also ECHOLOT partners.

📩 Subscribe to the ECHOLOT newsletter! 🔗 Email newsletter: lnkd.in/ech-vk8c 🔗 LinkedIn newsletter: lnkd.in/eUfFkewT Gain insights into how ECHOLOT is revolutionising the provision and reuse of high-quality, interoperable #CulturalHeritageData through AI-powered enrichment.

🚀 ECHOLOT at the Oulu Löyly Open culture think & do fest! Jouni Tuominen, from the University of Helsinki, represented ECHOLOT with a roll-up banner & a fair stand. It's been a pleasure to participate in the workshop, sharing ideas and knowledge about cultural heritage. Thank you for inviting us!

🤩 Meet the ECHOLOT partners! @australo.bsky.social is a marketing and innovation consultancy focused on bridging the gap between research and the market. 🎯In ECHOLOT, AUSTRALO leads the dissemination, communication and capacity building. Find out more about ECHOLOT & its partners echolot-eccch.eu

🤩 Meet the ECHOLOT partners! Takin.solutions is a consultancy specializing in #CulturalHeritageData solutions worldwide. 🎯 In ECHOLOT, they lead the semantic interoperability task, defining mechanisms to address #dataset heterogeneity, mapping data models & creating pathways for data integration.

🤩 Meet the ECHOLOT partners! @meemoo-be.bsky.social collaborates with organisations to support the care and use of their digital archives. 🎯 In ECHOLOT, they coordinate the 'Flemish fine art and performing arts collections' case study. +INFO: echolot-eccch.eu

🤩 Meet the ECHOLOT partners! The University of Helsinki is the oldest and largest institution of academic education in Finland. 🎯 In ECHOLOT, they work on semantic interoperability of data and creation of hybrid curation workflows, especially on entity reconciliation, linking, and deduplication.

🚀 ECHOLOT at the the AI-Bridges Symposium. ECHOLOT project coordinator addressed knowledge organisation on the web and #AI applications. Partners from @hitz-zentroa.bsky.social & @wikimediase.bsky.social discussed roadmaps for structured data wiki applications, such as #Wikibase and #Wikidata

💫 ECHOLOT at #DigitalHeritageSummit 2026! The Digital Heritage Summit 2026 brings together world-renowned experts, institutions and industry leaders in Limassol, Cyprus. ECHOLOT is there, for sure! 🤩 Rony Vissers from @meemoo-be.bsky.social is representing us with an ECHOLOT poster.

📢 ECHOLOT SURVEY | Help us understand how you use MediaWiki outside of Wikimedia projects! 🔗https://survey.knowledge.wiki/index.php/716248?newtest=Y&lang=en We want to know how #MediaWiki is used outside @wikimediafoundation.org projects, such as @wikipedia.org, #Wikibooks, etc. Thank you!

📢 GREAT NEWS: The new ECHOLOT website is now live! 🌐https://echolot-eccch.eu/ We are proud to present a completely revamped version of our website, which is packed with content covering all aspects of the project and explaining what makes ECHOLOT such a special and exciting initiative.

A week ago today, ECHOLOT joined the event: Engineering Truth - #AIGovernance, Data Safety and the Architecture of Trust, organised by the ECHOES of Memory project. The ECHOLOT team presented some of the challenges and the strategies we are developing when designing the AI-supported workflows.

🤩 Meet the ECHOLOT partners! KM-A is a leading provider for knowledge management consulting, training and research. 🎯 In ECHOLOT, KM-A will contribute to the development of the core system as well as in the business and sustainability aspects. Find out more: echolot-eccch.eu

🤩Meet the ECHOLOT partners! Professional Wiki helps organizations with knowledge management and #OpenData by leveraging MediaWiki. @wikipedia.org 🎯In ECHOLOT, it develops a new MediaWiki extension that turns the platform into a hub for collaborative curation and enrichment of #CulturalHeritageData.

🤩 Meet the ECHOLOT partners! EHU is the largest academic institution in the Basque Country. 🎯@ehu.eus leads the WP involving multiple case studies spanning a variety of #CulturalHeritage contexts. Within it, EHU leads the 'Basque Cultural Heritage Data' case study. +INFO: echolot-eccch.eu

🤩 Meet the ECHOLOT partners! Jožef Stefan Institute (JSI) is the leading Slovenian scientific research institute. 🎯By leveraging its cutting-edge AI tools and methodologies, JSI supports ECHOLOT, driving improvements in #CulturalHeritageData accessibility, interoperability, and machine-readability.

🤩 Meet the ECHOLOT partners! PCSS is an important R&D center in the field of ICT. 🎯 In ECHOLOT, PCSS is leading the 'Infrastructure, Integration and Interoperability' work package, guiding the partners in conceptualising the technical aspects of the project and defining the overall system design.

🤩 Meet the ECHOLOT partners! Institute of Literary Research of the Polish Academy of Sciences (IBL PAN) is a highly recognized literary and cultural studies centre. 🎯IBL PAN is responsible for coordinating the 'European Literary Bibliography' case study, providing bibliographic data services.

🤩 Meet the ECHOLOT partners! @europeana.bsky.social is an independent, non-profit organisation that stewards the common European data space for #CulturalHeritage. 🎯In ECHOLOT, they will advise on integration with the #DataSpace and lead the exploitation and sustainability of the ECHOLOT system.

🤩 Meet the ECHOLOT partners! 🎯 The Institute of Czech Literature of the Czech Academy of Sciences is responsible for coordinating, together with the Institute of Literary Research, Polish Academy of Sciences, the 'European Literary Bibliography (ELB)' case study. Find out more: echolot-eccch.eu

Meet the ECHOLOT partners! 🎯As the leader of the 'Evaluation and Further Development' WP, in ECHOLOT @dariaheu.bsky.social provides key expertise in digital humanities and #HeritageData to ensure that the interoperability work meets the needs of cultural heritage practitioners and researchers.

Meet the ECHOLOT partners! 🎯 As coordinator of ECHOLOT, TIB ensures the long-term impact and usability of ECHOLOT. 🎨 TIB also coordinates the 'Connecting Media Art Collections' case study, leading efforts to harmonise and interlink dispersed media art collections. Find out more: echolot-eccch.eu

📢 The ECHOLOT press release is now available! The PR outlines ECHOLOT's mission and the principles on which it is founded, and presents the five real-world case studies through which its work will be validated. 🔗Read it here: zenodo.org/records/1935... 🔗Download it here: zenodo.org/records/1935...

💫 ECHOLOT at the #MediaWiki Users and Developers Conference Spring 2026. ECHOLOT partners Jeroen De Dauw from and Bernhard Krabina introduced #NeoWiki, an open-source structured data system baked by ECHOLOT. You can view their presentation here: professionalwiki.github.io/MUDCon2026-N...

Dr. Lozano Rossenova introduces the @echolot-eu.bsky.social project, whose open-source software suite enables the curation and enrichment of cultural heritage data.

✨️ ECHOLOT at the @echoes-eu.bsky.social second annual event. The project coordinator took part in a round-table discussion, where she presented the project's key features, including its objectives and the case studies through which ECHOLOT will be validated. 🤩 Thank you for having us!

📢 GREAT NEWS: ECHOLOT will be attending the @echoes-eu.bsky.social second annual event, and you can follow it online! It will be open to the public, with the option to attend in person or online. Key details: 📆 Wednesday 18 March, 16:15–17:15. 🌐 Online registration via this link: lnkd.in/e92eEXSN

🤩 ECHOLOT meeting in Bilbao - Family picture. After this F2F meeting, we are eager and excited to get down to work to enable the creation, provision and reuse of high-quality, semantically rich, interoperable cultural data. 💫 Thank you to all the members who made this such a successful meeting!

Today was devoted to teamwork! All partners and service providers working on each case study were brought together to brainstorm vital aspects such as: 🔹Goals 🔹Needs 🔹Tasks 🔹Scenarios 🔹Pain points 🔹Requirements 🤝This has allowed everyone to gain an in-depth understanding of their colleagues' tasks

💫 ECHOLOT meeting in Bilbao. From 9 to 11 March, the consortium is meeting in person for the first time since the project began in January. Hosted by @ehu.eus these three days are an excellent opportunity to set out the roadmap to be followed in the coming months to achieve ECHOLOT's main goals.

🤩 Meet the ECHOLOT partners! ECHOLOT is a multidisciplinary project that brings together 15 partners from 12 countries. 🤝 We will all work together to achieve ECHOLOT's main objective: to enable the creation, provision and reuse of high-quality, semantically rich, interoperable cultural data.

📢 BIG NEWS: The ECHOLOT website is now available! 🌐 echolot-eccch.eu ECHOLOT has reached an important milestone: launching our official website. Here you will find information about: 🔹 Who we are. 🔹 What our vision is. 🔹 The impact we hope to have through our case studies. @echoes-eu.bsky.social