ARTEMIS is a three-year research project involving a consortium of 22 European partners (and two affiliates) led by the National Research Council of Italy (CNR).

At the heart of ARTEMIS is the Heritage Digital Twin. This concept consists of the physical heritage object (such as a small artefact or a large monument) along with all the digital information associated with it and the system which connects all the information together. The digital data may include many different types, from the history and related documents, physical measurements and test results, 3D and VR models, environmental data and records which all provide a context for the original object.

A further development of this concept that ARTEMIS will address is the Reactive Heritage Digital Twin (RHDT) which will enable heritage professionals to forecast the consequences of real-life events via sensors and other information collected automatically from other systems, or resulting from computer modelled experiments.