IPERION HS D5.7 Procedures for the advanced description of paleontological and paleoanthropological specimens
Creators: name: Zayas Charle, Nieves
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2023
Subjects: Procedures for advanced description
Paleontological and paleoanthropological community
heritage science
computed microtomography
action protocl
palaeontological
preventive conservation
environmental control

description: The overall goal of WP5 is to develop key methods to address innovative and interoperable research on legacy systems as a unified process while better building and expanding the decentralized facilities of IPERION HS. This will raise the knowledge and skills of the consortium to a higher level of excellence and contribute to RI's long-term competitiveness. The Joint Research Actions (JRA) described in this work program aim to provide new research resources to all TNA platforms to provide better access services for researchers and heritage professionals across Europe. The proposed development directions follow the key research questions and scientific challenges identified in a consultation process with a wide range of heritage researchers. Such a structure allows a significant leap towards the integration of the various access rights provisions of the RI. The results will increase the sustainability of research results through cross-platform comparison, critically involving the development of interoperability between physical and digital tools, enabling the move towards a fully integrated European research infrastructure. The proposed actions take into account the expansion of the current user community. The aim is to exploit the full potential of the instrumental capabilities and documentation expertise of IPERION HS to provide innovative methods in archaeology and palaeontology, benefiting from the further adoption and development of new methods. One example is speciation using spectral imaging, a technique that was widely developed for the study of art, although it continues to appear in palaeontology and paleoanthropology.
Specific goals
WP5 implements five JRAs aimed at improving current and future access rights services. The developed solutions are available on the ARCHLAB, FIXLAB and MOLAB operating platforms and will be deployed on the future E-RIHS DIGILAB platform. The specific objectives of these five measures are:

Develop methods and optimized tools so that RI can effectively meet the needs of preventive protection;
Development of archaeological documentation both in the field and in the laboratory on existing data and collections;
Optimizing and implementing analytical tracking strategies to avoid possible damage to objects during measurement under strong beams;
Improving the heritage knowledge capabilities of platform access providers - description, accessibility, preservation, sharing, reuse - by supporting the heritage knowledge FAIR process and exploring the optimal uses of EOSC in the heritage community;
Develop methods and optimize RI instruments to bring new imaging strategies to paleontological and paleoanthropological specimens in natural science collections.
Most of the techniques are offered via the IPERION HS catalogue of services.