ITSERR (Italian Strengthening of the ESFRI RI RESILIENCE) is a interdisciplinary and distributed Research Infrastructure for Religious Studies, designed to support the existing national infrastructure and bring it to a higher level of maturity. Led by Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche (CNR), ITSERR aims to transform the scientific community of Religious Studies from being a mere actor in the implementation of established technologies to the driver of a new match with the new assets of AI/BD/HPC.The purpose of the ITSERR project is to strengthen the RESILIENCE RI in its preparatory phase, through its national institutional dimension, scientific positioning, technical development, and public perception. The ITSERR project will offer a range of services and tools to enhance operativity, including access to a central hub as an entrance point to distributed resources such as manuscripts, experts, and devices, as well as the provision of training activities and the support of the digital transformation of the community. We also aim to attract scholarship, research, and industry to leverage the Italian scientific community of Religious Studies towards a more innovation-oriented research methodology. Main activities include: Providing access to a wide and ever-enlarging data sets for the study of religions. Strengthening scientific excellence and improving research conditions. Leveraging the quality of research conducted in the European Research Area and beyond. Functioning as a pole of attraction for users all over the world. Encouraging researchers to move towards the institutions composing the RI. Reducing the obstacles in the transnational access to the resources for Religious Studies. Enhancing onsite and online access to digitized resources. Increasing the mobility of scholars who need to conduct research on the resources consulted onsite. Providing long-term data preservation for future generations. Supporting the availability of multilingual (meta)data. Promoting the participation of underrepresented groups*
