A session within the Solid Symposium 2026
📅 Date: 1 May 2026
🏁 Start: 10.35 h
🎤 Working Language: English
This session examines how Solid-inspired technology can transform the stewardship of and accessibility to digital cultural heritage, particularly at a time when decentralised digital infrastructures are becoming increasingly crucial. The session will bring together pioneers developing Solid-inspired and Solid-based solutions for digital heritage, alongside stakeholders representing researchers, heritage institutions that provide access to digital content, educators and technologists.
Participants will discover ongoing pilot projects that use Solid or are inspired by it to connect digital heritage collections, enable communities to curate their own narratives, develop new governance architectures and foster cross-border and cross-institutional collaborations. The session will start the development of the first white paper on the use of Solid in the digital heritage domain, to be completed after the event.
Organisers
This session is co-organised by:
- Dr Milena Dobreva (Senior Lecturer in Information Behaviour, University of Strathclyde and founding ERA Chair in Fostering Digital Cultural Heritage via Open Innovation and Open Science, Institute of Mathematics and Informatics – Bulgarian Academy of Sciences)
- Pavel Kats (Jewish Heritage Network's Co-founder, Coordinator of the European Memory Data Space (EMDS) - Blueprint project
- Dr Gustavo Candela (University of Alicante)
Preliminary Agenda
10.35-10.45
Introduction
Pavel Kats, Milena Dobreva, Gustavo Candela
10.45-11:25
Experiences with solid and distributed architectures
- Insights on distributed architectures from ECCCH
Dimitris Kotzinos (ETIS Lab, CY Cergy Paris University, France, and ECHOES) - Experiences with the Solid-CRS pilot and the current work on the Dutch Digital Heritage Network
Enno Meijers (Dutch Digital Heritage Network, KB National Library ofthe Netherlands) - European Memory Data Space for Holocaust-Related Data: Modelling a data space for European responsibility
Pavel Kats (JHN, The Netherlands) - Potential for the use of solid in GLAMs
Sally Chambers (The British Library, UK) - Experimenting with Solid and Wikidata
Gustavo Candela (University of Alicante) - LODox: A Web-Based Platform for Cultural Heritage Linked Data Discovery
Puyu Wang (Oxford e-Research Centre, University of Oxford,UK) - Solid and blockchain
Ivan Lambov (Institute of Mathematics and Informatics, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, Sofia, Bulgaria)
11:25-11:50
Panel discussion moderated by Sally Chambers:
Solid, distributed, trustworthy, user-friendly and FAIR – how to create digital infrastructures for cultural heritage which tick all the boxes?
11:50-12:05
White paper and further steps