Dissemination

Contributions to the research community and the broader society

Good Impact Ability - The involvement of citizens in academic projects is fundamental for several reasons. First, universities need to get closer to society. On the other hand, the project applies to generate knowledge for transparency and understanding of the investment. The possability of  participation of citizens transforms the cohesion of society by producing information collaboratively and actively, transforms them into citizen historians with more information and, as a result, enables greater recognition of the work of researchers. With this challenge, we educate citizens and empower them to make better decisions. 

The participation of citizens also makes it possible to increase the scale of research processes and speed them up and do so from any part of Europe based on observations and photographic records. Not only does the researcher, by involving the citizen, bring scientific practices to the citizens, a kind of scientific education, but the researcher also offers a source of information that would otherwise not be accessible and will be a way to increment citizen participation.

After being treated and transformed into data, the information collected will be disclosed per the FAIR principles (Findable, Accessible, Interoperable, Reusable). The dimensioning of the data available to be searched, the size of the images and the identification of virtual public cloud databases to be connected will be the result of the work of the research team, as well as the care in qualifying the metadata by other public and private databases that will be used.  The proposed work in terms of maturity is in the spectrum from 'idea to application', but we intend that, in the end, a range from 'lab to market' is achieved. 

The studies to be developed will initially be based on laboratory research to build a new historical perspective of the collections under analysis, but above all, to scientifically assess issues such as technological advances, knowledge transfer.

The research competes in parallel to obtain more scientific and historical data, a significant non-visible characteristic of the heritage under study.  Much of the work related to material analysis and data processing must be completed, the degree of interaction with society begins, where it is intended, together with museums, to implement a dynamic of interaction with local economics agents (tourism) and citizens (protection of heritage). 

New information and cultural awareness will be the engines so that, through museums as centres of local economic dynamism, the project will have an expressive result among the public and will be recognised as innovative.