As part of its Digital Humanities research strand, and in collaboration with KU Leuven (Belgium), University of Helsinki and Aalto University (Finland), MeRit participates in the ARCH-ON (Archaeological Ontologies) project. ARCH-ON is piloting and testing a new semantic Linked Open Data and FAIR data compatible model for recording, managing, harmonising and reusing archaeological information. The data and test analyses for the pilot concern medieval pilgrim ampullae and are provided by the PAS and MeRit. View the ARCH-ON project website and publications here.
As part of MeRit research strand on the production and use of medieval ritual objects, the project also collaborates with the UKRI-funded REMADE (Roman and Early Medieval Alloys Defined) project at the University of Reading. The projects organised a Citizen Science field recording event at the Lynn Museum at King’s Lynn for photographing and taking pXRF chemical element readings of pilgrim badges in the museum collections as well as objects brought in by metal detectorists. The results reveal new information about medieval metal-work craft traditions and will be published as part of the MeRit project monograph and a forthcoming article. See blogposts describing the field day here and here, and visit the REMADE project webpage here.