Publications – ENIGMA EU

JRC Publication – The Role of artificial Intelligence in Scientific Research

enigma_admin — Wed, 08 Oct 2025 09:19:25 +0000

Joint Research Centre - The Role of Artificial Intelligence in Scientific Research

A Science for Policy, European Perspective

Artificial Intelligence (AI) is fundamentally transforming the scientific process across all stages, from hypothesis generation and experimental design to data analysis, peer review and dissemination of results. In many research fields, such as the examined protein structure prediction, materials discovery and computational humanities, AI accelerates discovery, fosters interdisciplinary collaboration and enhances reproducibility while improving access to advanced analytical and computational capabilities.

These developments align with the European Union (EU)’s vision to make AI tools and infrastructure more accessible, strengthening research in areas of strategic importance such as climate change, health, and clean technologies.

However, this progress introduces new challenges, including concerns about algorithmic bias, the proliferation of hallucinations and fabricated data, and the potential erosion of critical thinking skills. AI Adoption remains uneven across scientific domains, and addressing these risks requires robust governance, transparency and alignment with open-science principles

This report, accompanying the publication of the European Strategy for AI in Science, provides scientific evidence to support policymakers in maximising AI’s benefits for EU’s research excellence, innovation and competitiveness, while ensuring its deployment in science remains ethical, inclusive and aligned with European values.

More details: https://publications.jrc.ec.europa.eu/repository/handle/JRC143482

ERCIM Special Issue – AI for Cultural Heritage

enigma_admin — Mon, 14 Apr 2025 09:45:44 +0000

ERCIM News Journal Special Issue: The ENIGMA Project and Informed Decision-Making on Illicit Trafficking of Cultural Objects

ENIGMA

The EUROPEAN RESEARCH CONSORTIUM FOR INFORMATICS AND MATHEMATICS (ERCIM) has mentioned the ENIGMA project in its Number 141 online “AI for Cultural Heritage – Introduction to the Special Theme”

More details:

https://ercim-news.ercim.eu/images/stories/EN141/EN141-web.pdfhttps://tmm-ch.com/

TMM-CH 2025

enigma_admin — Mon, 07 Apr 2025 07:15:19 +0000

4th International Conference TMM-CH - Transdisciplinary Multispectral Modelling and Cooperation for the Preservation of Cultural Heritage

ENIGMA

Dates: 7-9 April 2025
Location: Eugenides Foundation in hybrid format / Athens, Greece, Hydrid
Website: https://tmm-ch.com/

The TMM CH 25 4^th International conference on Transdisciplinary Multispectral Modelling and Cooperation for the Preservation of Cultural Heritage, addressing world challenges, was held in Athens, Greece, between 7-9 April 2025.

TMM CH 2025 focuses on presenting innovative scientific methodologies and projects to mark future trends in the protection of cultural heritage following a holistic approach merging competences from various scientific and research fields, like architecture, surveying engineering, information technologies, etc.

The creation of a transdisciplinary multispectral modelling towards the sustainable preservation of cultural heritage is supported by combining digital documentation technologies with innovative analytical and non-destructive techniques, 3D modelling, etc.

The ENIGMA project promoted its current research achievements focused on developing a standardized database schema, graph databases, web crawlers and a fast on-site cultural goods documentation application to support the fight against illicit trafficking of cultural goods through the TMM CH 25 Conference.

ENIGMA presented the following publications at TMM 25:

A unified approach for fast Cultural Goods on-site documentation and support multidisciplinary stakeholders fighting illicit trafficking
Graph Databases and Web Crawlers for Combating Illicit Trafficking of Cultural Goods

More details:

https://tmm-ch.com/

ICOM Call for Papers: Museum International: Provenance Research in Museums

enigma_admin — Tue, 03 Dec 2024 07:38:29 +0000

ICOM Call for Papers: Museum International: Provenance Research in Museums

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Museum International Vol. 77 Nº 307-308 ‘Provenance Research in Museums: Principles, Practices, and Possibilities’

Call for Papers

ICOM is preparing an issue of Museum International on Provenance Research in Museums: Principles, Practices, and Possibilities (Vol. 77 Nº 307-308). All proposals submitted will be assessed for suitability, and if chosen, the subsequent articles will go through a double-blind peer review process. The issue is expected to be published, in collaboration with Taylor &Francis/Routledge, at the end of 2025.

The abstract submission deadline is 20 January 2025.

ICOM welcomes submissions and proposals that highlight practical examples of initiatives that include multiple perspectives in undertaking provenance and object biography research in museums, both in the Global North and South.

This issue seeks to unpack provenance research beyond its common conception as the tracing of ownership and legal history of objects, towards a nuanced understanding of underlying collecting histories and historical contexts of acquisitions.

ICOM interprets ‘objects’ and ‘collections’ in a broad sense to refer to both cultural and natural history collections as a way of challenging the existing binary division between nature and culture in museums.

More details:

https://icom.museum/en/news/call-for-papers-museum-international-provenance-research-in-museums/

Semi-automatic identification of cultural heritage looting activities through Earth Observation

enigma_admin — Thu, 14 Nov 2024 08:06:06 +0000

Semi-automatic identification of cultural heritage looting activities through Earth Observation

SPIE.DIGITAL LIBRARY

EcOE – Authors: D. Abate, M. Tzouvaras, D. Hadjimitsis

Proceedings Volume 13212, Tenth International Conference on Remote Sensing and Geoinformation of the Environment (RSCy2024); 132120I (2024)

https://doi.org/10.1117/12.3037070

Event: Tenth International Conference on Remote Sensing and Geoinformation of the Environment (RSCy2024), 2024, Paphos, Cyprus

Fighting illicit trafficking of maps – The Methodology of the Enigma Project

enigma_admin — Tue, 29 Oct 2024 08:17:28 +0000

Fighting illicit trafficking of maps – The Methodology of the Enigma Project

18th ICA Conference Digital Approaches to Cartographic Heritage

AUTH – KIKLO – Authors:

Patias Petros, Georgiadis Charalampos, Roustanis Themistoklis, Chalkidou Sevasti, Georgoula Olga

Conference Proceedings (ISSN-2459-3893)

18th Conference Digital Approaches to Cartographic Heritage

https://cartography.web.auth.gr/ICA-Heritage/Bologna2024/

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ENIGMA presented in the Journal on Cultural Heritage Crime

enigma_admin — Sun, 24 Dec 2023 06:37:00 +0000

The Journal of Cultural Heritage Crime

ENIGMA

Online Publication

The Journal of Cultural Heritage Crime is a peer-reviewed journal focusing on the illicit trade and trafficking of cultural artefacts and the protection and preservation of cultural heritage. It covers art theft, archaeological looting, forgery, and ways to combat these crimes.
In the latest edition, the ENIGMA project is presented.

Horizon Europe Booklet

enigma_admin — Thu, 02 Nov 2023 13:48:00 +0000

Driving a green, digital & innovative European cultural heritage

Publication office of the euroepan union

Booklet

The ENIGMA Project is presented in this booklet, which gathers short descriptions of the projects selected for funding under the Horizon Europe Cluster 2 calls, under the Destination ‘Innovative Research on European Cultural Heritage and Cultural and Creative Industries – Building Our Future From the Past’.

European Commission, Directorate-General for Research and Innovation, Driving a green, digital & innovative European cultural heritage, Publications Office of the European Union, 2023, https://data.europa.eu/doi/10.2777/600577

Heritage Research Hub

enigma_admin — Sat, 03 Jun 2023 10:48:00 +0000

Heritage Research Hub

ENIGMA

Online Publication

Heritage Research Hub, an online community for Heritage Science, Heritage Studies, and Heritage Research, has presented ENIGMA project on its website.
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Horizon – The EU Research and Innovation Magazine

enigma_admin — Tue, 23 May 2023 13:21:00 +0000

Museums and police in Europe join forces to fight illicit trade in artefacts

HORIZON MAGAZINE

European projects are developing new ways to clamp down on international trafficking of cultural goods.

Charalampos Georgiadis, ENIGMA’s coordinator, says the technologies will be more effective if all museums use the same methods to describe at-risk items.

‘We want to create a unique identifier for objects,’ said Georgiadis, an associate professor at the School of Civil Engineering of the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki in Greece.

He said this means developing standardised descriptions – including colour, material, shape and size – that museums can use with minimum effort and cost.

ENIGMA, which runs through 2025, also wants to make it possible to use artificial intelligence to crawl the internet for images and information on objects that could be looted or stolen.