Title Abstract "Digital Research Infrastructure for the Arts and Humanities" "DARIAH is a network. It connects several hundreds of scholars and dozens of research facilities in currently 17 european countries, the DARIAH member countries. In addition DARIAH has several cooperating partner institutions in countries not being a member of DARIAH, and strong ties to many research projects across Europe. People in DARIAH provide digital tools and share data as well as know-how. They organize learning opportunities for digital research methods, like workshops and summer schools, and offer training materials for Digital Humanities." "Digital Repository Infrastructure Vision for European Research - Phase Two - (DRIVER-II)" "Research Department" "DRIVER is a multi-phase effort whose vision and primary objective is to establish a cohesive, pan-European infrastructure of Digital Repositories, offering sophisticated functionality services to both researchers and the general public. The present proposal (DRIVER-II) aims to introduce key innovations compared to the original DRIVER project, while building on its results. The main novelties envisioned are: EStablishment of a European Confederation of Digital Repositoires as a strategic arm of DRIVER inclusion of Digital Repositories with non-textual or non-publication content, e.g., images, presentations, and possibly primary data construction of ""enhanced publications"", which combine interrelated information objects into a logical whole, e.g., publications coupled with relevant presentations and associated datasets provision of advanced functionality to address the requirements raised by the above innovations and to serve varied modes of scientists' research explorations. Additionally, DRIVER-II moves from a test-bed to a production-quality infrastructure, expands the geographical coverage of Digital Repositories included in it, intensifies state-of-the-art and future-direction studies, and escalates dissemination, training, and community building activities. DRIVER-II significantly broadens the horizons of the whole DRIVER endeavour regarding infrastructure operation, functionality innovation, and community relevance, and constitutes a major step on the way to the envisioned knowledge society." "KADOC-ODIS: Digital Research Infrastructure for Religion, Culture and Society" "Kim Christiaens" "KADOC - Documentation and Research Centre on Religion, Culture and Society, KADOC Research" "The interfaculty centre KADOC-KU Leuven (°1976)documents and studies the manifold cultural and societallegacies of religion in modern society. The corner stone ofits digital research infrastructure is the web database ODIS.Since 2000 it centralizes and discloses authoritative, thussource-validated and research-embedded data-series onthe history and heritage of civil society. In May 2021KADOC-ODIS was recognized as a core facility of KU Leuven.The database bridges the worlds of academic research andcultural heritage, and is one of the most intensely usedonline historical research instruments in Flanders. KADOCODISaims at versatility and cooperation. Our investmentprogram strategically answers the needs of the manydifferent KU Leuven research units that study the societaland cultural impact of religion. New tools will allow toinnovatively query, analyze and visualize KADOC’s wellstructureddata-sets. An interoperability and discovery layerwill establish more and better connections to other(international) research instruments, SSH researchplatforms and Linked Open Data resources. Scholars will beable to import and process data-sets in their ownapplications. A new, dedicated module in ODIS will offer aplatform for preserving and contextually disclosinghistorical statistical materials. A thorough technical updateof this research infrastructure will realign it to therequirements of current and future digital humanitiesresearch." "Digital Information Management in the Infrastructure Sector (DIMInfra)." "Wim Van den bergh" "Modelling for Sustainability (M4S), Sustainable Pavements and Asphalt Research (SuPAR), Hogeschool PXL" "The Flemish infrastructure sector faces a major challenge to implement new technologies such as IoT sensors, AI, VR, XR, digital 3D modelling packages, BIM software, 3D scanning technology, drones and business models based on internal and external, whether or not real-time not real-time data flow, to be implemented. Digital Information Management (DIM) in Infrastructure (DIMInfra) is an information management model that allows, through improved internal and external information flows, to optimise business processes and thus achieve efficiency gains. In addition, DIM opens the way to new business opportunities for companies throughout the value chain. Central in the ecosystem are the contractors class 4 to 8. They form the bridge between, on the one hand, the target group 'Execution' target group (Surveyors, Subcontractors and suppliers, including transport firms and software suppliers) and on the other hand the 'Construction Partner' target group (Building owners, including contracting cities/municipalities and Flemish infrastructure managers, Consultancy companies, Control and certification organisations). Concrete goals of the project are: Encourage companies to implement the DIM model through company-specific actions by providing insight and practical demonstrations of DIM and renewed business models, thereby increasing efficiency and reducing costs. With DIMInfra, companies gain insight through a technology matrix by subgroup into emerging and promising technologies that support DIM as well as the application of these technologies within the context of the infrastructure sector. This accelerates the sector's digital transition. A final goal is to provide tools through roadmaps and digital learning modules that facilitate the implementation of DIM, in order to accelerate the roll-out of DIM in the field. The project is a collaboration between University of Antwerp and PXL Hogeschool, supported by more than 35 partners from the infrastructure sector." "Deep Sewer Mapping: A deep learning approach to generate digital twins of sewer infrastructure using low-cost sensors" "Maarten Vergauwen" Geomatics "Maintenance of aging sewer infrastructure is a critical challenge for municipal administrations. The goal of this project is to combine low-cost 3D cameras and cutting-edge AI technology to create a Digital Twin model of sewer systems enabling both 3D mapping of structural elements (i.e. pipes network) and automatic defects detection (i.e. cracks, deformations, infiltration, deposits). Nowadays, sewer inspection is already carried out with the help of remote camera systems, which allows to inspect sewer infrastructure in an organized and safe way. These cameras are capable of inspecting even the tightest sewer pipe and broadcast the images to ground operators for visual interpretation. However, there are limitations to current approaches which this project will allow to overcome: (1) visual interpretation of the imagery is a time consuming task and prone to human error; (2) the imagery and its interpretations are not properly georeferenced; (3) there is no full 3D reconstruction and mapping of the sewer infrastructure. This project will develop an integrated solution to acquire images and point clouds data of sewer pipes and a fully automated software to process the raw data and generate a geocoded Digital Twin model of the infrastructure, useful for inventorying and visualizing the current state, and planning further maintenance/construction operations. " "Deep Sewer Mapping:A deep learning approach to generate digital twins of sewer infrastructure using low-cost sensors." "Maarten Vergauwen" Geomatics "Maintenance of aging sewer infrastructure is a critical challenge for municipal administrations. The goal of this project is to combine low-cost 3D cameras and cutting-edge AI technology to create a Digital Twin model of sewer systems enabling both 3D mapping of structural elements (i.e. pipes network) and automatic defect detection (i.e. cracks, deformations, infiltration, deposits). Nowadays, sewer inspection is already carried out with the help of remote camera systems, which allows to inspect sewer infrastructure in an organized and safe way. These cameras are capable of inspecting even the tightest sewer pipe and broadcast the images to ground operators for visual interpretation. However, there are limitations to current approaches which this project will allow to overcome: (1) visual interpretation of the imagery is a time consuming task and prone to human error; (2) the imagery and its interpretations are not properly georeferenced; (3) there is no full 3D reconstruction and mapping of the sewer infrastructure. This project will develop an integrated solution to acquire images and point clouds data of sewer pipes and a fully automated software to process the raw data and generate a geocoded Digital Twin model of the infrastructure, useful for inventorying and visualizing the current state, and planning further maintenance/construction operations." "Digital Support Infrastructure for Citizens in the Repair Economy" "Joost Duflou" "Manufacturing Processes and Systems (MaPS)" "The project’s main output will be an integrated approach to supporting citizen repair: a digital infrastructure that supports self-repair, repairing together (in repair cafés or repair centres), and repairing with professional support. To sustain this infrastructure beyond the project lifetime, business and policy models will be developed with a view to setting up a European Open Repair Data Platform." "EU Public Infrastructure for the European DIgital Twin Ocean" "Flanders Marine Institute" "The main aim of EDITO-Infra, the “EU Public Infrastructure for the European Digital Twin”, is to build the EU Public Infrastructure backbone for the European Digital Twin of the Ocean (DTO) by upgrading, combining and integrating key service components of the existing EU ocean observing, monitoring and data programmes Copernicus Marine Service (Copernicus Marine Service) and the European Marine Observation and Data Network (EMODnet) into a single digital framework." "Digital Information Management in the Infrastructure Sector" "Chris Leinders" "BE: Construction and Energy, Universiteit Antwerpen" "A groundbreaking initiative transforming the infrastructure sector through a new organizational model for efficient data and information exchange. This model promotes higher returns and opens new business opportunities, addressing challenges like labor shortages and declining expertise. Objective and Approach: DIMInfra integrates advanced technologies such as IoT, VR, BIM software, and drones, focusing on profitable application. The project encompasses 7 practical cases for direct sector involvement and emphasizes ROI in a realistic context. Challenges and Implementation: Aimed at overcoming digitalization challenges in the infrastructure sector, DIMInfra makes technologies accessible and practically applicable. The project fosters knowledge transfer and supports the implementation of the DIM model without developing new technologies. Impact and Progress: DIMInfra focuses on knowledge building and the implementation of the DIM model within the infrastructure sector's value chain, aiming to apply innovative practices and sustainable business models." "Distributed digital infrastructure for the management of scientific collections in Flanders" "Johan Van Huylenbroeck, Marc Heyndrickx, Kris Hostens" "Plant Sciences, Technology and Food Science, Animal Sciences" "Main research question/goal DiSSCo is a new world-class Research Infrastructure for the physical and digital curation of European natural science collections under common management and access policies. To make the collections more visible and better utilized, their associated data and media should become more Findable, Accessible, Interoperable and Reusable (FAIR).Research approach DiSSCo Flanders targets biological, anthropological and geological collections, comprising preserved, living, tissue and molecular collections. Smaller lab and orphan collections are fully included in this proposal to guarantee their proper conservation and re-usability. In the first instance, an up-to-date inventory will be made of the many collections spread across the various ILVO units, such as the marine collections on macrobenthos, fish (otoliths) and soil samples, but also the various collections on plants (breeding seeds, azalea cultivars) and micro-organisms (plant pathogens and other cultures from the agrifood production chain) and the related molecular collections (DNA, eDNA). The whole workflow, from specimen sampling in the field to their digitization and online publication enabling re-use of the data and media, will be addressed in terms of proper collection management.Relevance/Valorisation DiSSCo represents the largest ever formal agreement between natural history museums, botanical gardens, zoos, universities and other collection-holding institutions. This project enables the transformation of a fragmented landscape into an integrated knowledge base. DiSSCo Flanders contributes at the Flemish level to the bigger DiSSCo Europe consortium, already active since 2017. Within ILVO there are links to bio-banking, monitoring and follow-up of pathogens. Funding provider(s) FWO - Fonds Wetenschappelijk Onderzoek External partner(s) Agentschap Plantentuin Meise KULeuven"