Project Real Versus Digital awarded

National libraries, such as the KB, National Library of the Netherlands, have been working on digitising their collections for years. Due to rising energy use and the cost of digital infrastructures, libraries are under increasing pressure to reduce their energy use and emissions whilst ensuring maximum usability and accessibility.

It is necessary to find an optimal mix of infrastructures that is economically viable, meets legal, academic and cultural requirements, simplifies user access, and minimises energy use and emissions. The ReVerDi project applies the Life Cycle Sustainability Assessment approach to assess these infrastructures from an environmental, social-cultural and economic perspective. It provides the scientific basis required for national libraries and other GLAM institutions (Galleries, Libraries, Archives and Museums) to create future-proof infrastructures. The project is a collaboration with the KB, the National Library of the Netherlands.

NOW call Climate and Cultural Heritage

NWO has awarded three Dutch projects in the call ‘Climate & Cultural Heritage: Collaborative research to address urgent challenges’. It involves Transnational and transdisciplinary consortia at the intersection of climate change and cultural heritage.  This international call is a collaboration between the JPI Climate, JPI Cultural Heritage and the Belmont Forum. A budget of €283,300 is available for each of the projects awarded by NWO. A total of 16 research projects were awarded, three of which are led by a Dutch researcher.

More information

• Uta Pottgiesser is professor Heritage & Technology of the department Architectural Engineering + Technology.
• Have a look for more information about this NWO call here.