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These slides were presented at the HS Academy workshop titled "Working Group on Research Infrastructures and Heritage Science Career Paths," organized jointly by the IPERION HS and E-RIHS projects. The presentation was held in Bologna on January 25, 2024.

This study aims to awaken the consciousness of Christians worldwide, called the global church, about the menaces of heresies posed by this present age of globalisation and how to combat them. The age of globalisation is known as the age of information technology, communication systems, transportation networks, and religious marketing. In this age, the world is brought into one tiny unit known as the global village, and the global church cannot pretend to be unaware. Today, practically every aspect of life is affected by globalisation. The globe has successfully become a global village where information and technology are available to everyone every day, hour, minute, and second. The emergence of this trend has increased the number of heretical teachings, both in the church and on social media platforms. This descriptive study relied mainly on secondary data collected from various journals, magazines, books, and websites. Therefore, the paper examines the meaning and conceptions of globalisation, kingdom Christian education, and the global church; the menaces of globalisation on the global church; the historical conception and overview of heresy; how to identify heresies in the church; and recommendations on how to combat heresies.

This report describes the dental calculus sampling conducted during the MEDICAL project (Medical Treatments in Medieval Leprosaria. Exploring Healing Remedies through Dental Calculus Analysis). The research is funded by the European Union's Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under the Marie Sklodowska-Curie grant agreement No 844364. The samples were collected from the human skeletal remains excavated from the St Leonard leprosy hospital in Peterborough (UK). The skeletal collection is stored at Durham University. This file is not publicly accessible but is available upon request.

POGO (Philology-Oriented Graphematics Ontology, https://github.com/vedph/graphematics) is an ontology including key concepts of graphematics (such as Grapheme, Allograph, Glyph, Brevigraph). It is oriented towards digital philology: it includes the concepts/objects that a philologist needs to create a digital diplomatic transcription of a textual document (such as European and Near Eastern medieval manuscripts, inscriptions, papyri) written with pre-modern handwritten writing systems.

This is an interactive live modelling system which can automatically convert simple tab separated triples or JSON-LD into graphical models using the mermaid library. General updates and improvements have been carried out, with the addition of improved options for formatting and the conversion of JSON-LD, specifically in relation to those created by the Linked.Art project. The compression of data within bookmark URLs has been updated and the option for the direct creation of png version of models has been improved. Instructions: Several worked examples, including some simple instructions relating to how this system works are included in the interactive web site: dynamic modelling, with all of the related code presented in GitHub. A live version of this tool can be found at: https://research.ng-london.org.uk/modelling/

The scientific understanding of the degradation of cultural heritage objects, caused by external and internal factors, is increasing. However, we are still far from having a comprehensive material–object–environment–building model that would enable us to predict the outcomes of preventive conservation scenarios. This deliverable represents a step forward in detecting, understanding, and monitoring changes, crucial for preventive conservation. It targets oil paintings and addresses various internal and external factors. The deliverable is organized into three topics, each containing subprojects, and covers protocols development for chemical and structural painting changes (Topic 1), monitoring indoor environmental conditions (Topic 2), and a digital platform with decision support tools (Topic 3). Twenty-five partners from 13 countries contributed to the deliverable, and each subproject is coordinated by a project leader. Topic 1, the first project focuses on the development of a protocol for assessing light-induced color changes in specific pigments within oil binder, utilizing non-invasive imaging and single-point techniques as well as micro-destructive molecular and elemental methods. Objectives include evaluating different white-light sources' impact on mock-ups and defining critical parameters for monitoring paint film color changes. The second project introduces the monitoring of lead soap protrusion formation. It combines non-invasive imaging and spot-point techniques, resulting in a ten-step protocol for long-term condition monitoring. For varnish analysis (project 3), a toolkit of non-invasive chemical and structural techniques is applied, showing promising advances in sensitive equipment, but necessary development for effective museum implementation. The fourth project aids in interpreting multimodal methodology results for sensitive modern oil paint surfaces. While some techniques provide initial insights, conclusive findings require cross-referencing with additional non-invasive methods. The topic's final project explores non-invasive imaging for determining and monitoring delaminating and flaking paint layers. Most of the techniques discussed in Topic 1 are offered via the IPERION HS catalogue of services. Topic 2, the first project in this topic, aims at developing a toolkit for simple environmental monitoring techniques. It specifically examines formic and acetic acid, known risks to collections during storage or display, and validated them with samplers for SO2 and NO2. The developed method is offered as an IPERION HS service. The second project carried out an interlaboratory comparison of the Oddy Test to assess its reproducibility and progress toward standardization. In addition, it compared protocol variations and shares more objective assessment approaches and best practices. The third project offers a concise protocol and overview of instrumental techniques available through IPERION HS for analyzing the chemical composition of collected airborne particles. This analysis aids in identifying pollutants, understanding their sources, evaluating their impact on artworks, and devising protection strategies for cultural artefacts. The last project demonstrates the value of incorporating different mass spectrometry approaches for the detection of organic compounds harmful to oil paintings and optimized their protocols. Topic 3 focuses on enhancing and openly sharing a digital platform of specialized apps for preventive conservation, including HERIe, DISCOLL, IMPACT, and Collection Demography apps. In addition, it describes the requirements of ideal apps for the end-user and includes a validation of the dust deposition model for the case study of the cloister of the Monastery of Santa María del Paular (Rascafría, Spain). The digital apps are presented on a single website, the E-RIHS - Digital Tools, Services and Resources, https://e-rihs.io/resources.html, planned to be merged in E-RIHS - ERIC DIGILAB open services. To conclude, topic 1 protocols are based on mock-ups, and serve as the foundation, and starting point for actual implementation in authentic paintings. The various protocols developed under topics 1 and 2 serve as a 'monitoring toolkit' which can be offered to E-RIHS users in the future and the concept of the digital platform presented here will be fused in E-RIHS - ERIC DIGILAB open services. 

This presentation is focused on radar down-streaming applications designed for cultural heritage as part of previous or ongoing research activities of the Cyprus University of Technology. The study initially presents the broader context regarding systematic monitoring and the need for earth observation products for heritage applications. Then, a short overview of the space programme and recent trends are highlighted, especially the use of big data. The presentation is then focused on specific examples and studies of SAR applications for cultural heritage using down-streaming services such as the use of integrated Sentinel-1 and Sentinel- 2 for the detection of archaeological proxies, the use of the Hybrid Pluggable Processing Pipeline (HyP3) cloud-based system of NASA Alaska Satellite Facility (ASF) for detecting displacements within archaeological sites in Cyprus after a 5.6 Magnitude scale earthquake event. Furthermore, results from a study dealing with monitoring vertical sprawl in Cyprus using Google Earth Engine and Sentinel-1 are demonstrated. Further results are shown for rapid mapping after technological accidents near heritage sites and exploiting the recently released European Ground Motion Service (EGMS). The presentation ends with a general discussion and future steps.

This is a presentation given at the European Archaeology Association Conference 2023 in session 603 - Replicable Archaeology: looking for workflows and data management strategies fostering data reuse and methological transferability in archaeological science.