The aim of the Heritage Monitor is to make research and digitisation activities related to minority cultural heritage more visible and accessible, supporting communities in identifying relevant research, potential partners, opportunities, and gaps, and strengthening their participation in decisions about their cultural heritage.

Minority communities, community organisations, representatives, and professionals involved in the preservation, digitisation, representation, or promotion of minority cultural heritage.

The Heritage Monitor makes research and project activities related to minority communities more visible and easier to discover. It can help communities to:

• Find relevant research and projects and explore publications and initiatives related to their cultural heritage and community.
• Discover who is working on their heritage and identify institutions, researchers, and projects with relevant expertise.
• Explore connections and potential partners and find organisations and initiatives working on similar topics or with related communities.
• Understand funding and research activity and explore where research and funding are taking place and identify potential gaps or opportunities.
• Support community engagement and decision-making by using accessible evidence about the research landscape to participate in discussions about the digitisation, representation, and future of their cultural heritage.

You explore and filter aggregated data on projects, publications, organisations, research topics, institutions, experts, funding activity, and specific minority communities through lists and an interactive map. The Heritage Monitor brings together and consolidates data on institutions, projects, and publications. Its user-friendly interface allows you to filter, explore, and visualise the data in lists and on an interactive map. The platform currently includes around 3.7 million projects, 10 million publications, and 400,000 organisations. The data are aggregated from OpenAIRE and enriched with information from the Research Organization Registry (ROR) and CORDIS.

The tool highlights relevant research and projects, institutions and researchers working on specific communities, potential partners, funding patterns, and areas where activity may be limited or underrepresented.

A clearer basis for finding relevant initiatives, identifying collaboration opportunities, understanding research and funding activity, and participating in decisions about the digitisation and representation of your cultural heritage.

The Heritage Monitor supports DIGICHer’s goal of promoting equity, diversity, and inclusion in cultural heritage digitisation by helping cultural heritage institutions understand the wider research and project landscape in which they operate. Institutions can use the Heritage Monitor to discover relevant research, identify expertise and potential partners, explore funding landscapes, and follow emerging developments in digital cultural heritage. This can support the development of new projects and strategies for digitisation and collaboration. The dedicated focus on minority communities can help institutions identify existing activities, expertise, and potential gaps related to the digitisation of minority cultural heritage. In this way, the Heritage Monitor can support institutions in developing more inclusive and community-aware approaches to digitisation.

The Heritage Monitor aggregates and enriches data from several external sources: OpenAIRE, CORDIS, and the Research Organization Registry (ROR). The Heritage Monitor itself does not claim ownership of this underlying data. Data from CORDIS and OpenAIRE are provided under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International licence (CC BY 4.0), which permits reuse, redistribution, and adaptation for any purpose, including commercial use, provided that appropriate credit is given to the original source. Data from ROR are provided under the Creative Commons CC0 1.0 Universal Public Domain Dedication, which places the data in the public domain with no restrictions on use, though attribution is still appreciated as good practice. Reuse conditions may nonetheless vary between individual records or sub-datasets, so we recommend checking the license of the original source before reusing or redistributing data at scale. The Heritage Monitor provides source information and links where available to help users identify and verify the provenance of the data. If you use data or insights from the Heritage Monitor in your own research or publications, please acknowledge the Heritage Monitor and the original data providers (OpenAIRE, CORDIS, and ROR) as appropriate.