With too few conservation experts and too few specialists and students to cope with the vast amount of conservation work, a satellite bandwidth pool technology has been utilised as a cost effective means to overcome telecom infrastructure difficulties in distance learning. More....

Videoconferencing and the Internet have been used by the Euro Mediterranean partners within the Ikonos consortium to provide both specialised training to trainers in the field of cultural heritage, as well as to provide training to a new generation of conservators. More....

Through shared common inventories and distributed information between the Ikonos partners, methodologies operating with new technologies have been used to design a digital cataloguing system for conservators. This included research into a commonly accepted thesaurus in the field of cultural heritage. More ....

A common database framework based on standard criteria and applicability issues has been designed and compiled using a collection of unique artefacts, buildings and monuments belonging to each partner's culture, within the Ikonos Euro-Mediterranean network. More ....