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Scientific Papers & Posters

Exploring Overlaps of Cultural Property Crime with Organised Crime in EU Policy Documents

European Journal on Criminal Policy and Research (2024)

By Patricia Faraldo Cabana

Developing a Call Detail Record Generator for Cultural Heritage Preservation and Theft Mitigation: Applications and Implications

ARES '24: Proceedings of the 19th International Conference on Availability, Reliability and Security (2024)

By Robert-Ionut Vătăsoiu, Alexandru Vulpe, Robert Florescu, Mari-Ana Issachian, and George Suciu

Ethical and Legal Risks of Algorithmic and AI Tools Developed to Fight Against Trafficking in Cultural Property in the RITHMS Project

Proceedings XoveTIC (2023)

By Amara García Adán and María-Ángeles Fuentes-Loureiro (University of A Coruña)

Art Crime Does not pay: Multiplexed Social Network Analysis in Cultural Heritage Trafficking Forensics

Proceedings of the 19th International Conference on Cyber Warfare and Security, ICCWS (2024)

By Jarno Salonen and Alessandro Guarino

Art Crime Does not pay

Proceedings of the 19th International Conference on Cyber Warfare and Security, ICCWS (2024)

Poster by Jarno Salon and Alessandro Guarino

RITHMS Project: How Digital Technology Can Help Protect Cultural Heritage from Illicit Trafficking

European Archeologists Association Annual Event (2024)

Poster by Michela De Bernardin, Riccardo Giovanelli, Madison Leeson, Arianna Traviglia (CCHT-IIT)

War, art, and sanctions: social network analysis on the NACP’s databases of sanctioned Russian individuals and art collectors

International Journal of Digital Humanities (October 2024)

By Madison Leeson, Riccardo Giovanelli, Michela De Bernardin, Arianna Traviglia (IIT)

RITHMS Digital Platform. How Social Network Analysis Can Be Leveraged To Fight High-RIsk Criminal Networks Trafficking in Cultural Goods

CEPOL Research and Science Conference 2024/2025

Poster by Michela De Bernardin, Madison Leeson, Riccardo Giovanelli, Sara Ferro, Arianna Traviglia (CCHT-IIT)

Overcoming data siloes in cultural heritage crime research: a consolidated OSINT-derived dataset on art, antiquities, and the trade in cultural goods

Archival Science, Volume 25, article number 16, (2025)

By Madison Leeson, Riccardo Giovanelli, Sara Ferro, Michela De Bernardin, Arianna Traviglia

A novel NLP-driven approach for enriching artefact descriptions, provenance, and entities in cultural heritage

Neural Computing and Applications, June 2025

Sara Ferro, Riccardo Giovanelli, Madison Leeson, Michela De Bernardin, Arianna Traviglia

RITHMS Digital Platform: Social Network Analysis for Intelligence-Led Policing of Cultural Heritage Crime

Smith, E., Austin, S. (eds) Researching a Rigged Game: Digital Approaches to Tracing the Illicit Trade in Cultural Objects. Studies in Art, Heritage, Law and the Market, vol 11. Springer 2025

Madison Leeson, Michela De Bernardin, Riccardo Giovanelli, Sara Ferro, Arianna Traviglia

Public Deliverables

Initial Legal Requirements

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Impact Analysis Report v.1

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Legal Framework

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Social benefits and risks

Deliverable 7.3

Informed Consent Procedures

Deliverable 9.1

Impact Analysis Report v.2

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Final Report on Communication and Dissemination

Deliverable 6.7

Open Science Final Summary

Deliverable 8.3

Film & Videos

Threads of Heritage

Down The Rabbit Hole of Art Crimes

Film / Documentary (2025)

The Krater

Film / Documentary (2025)

The Concert

Film / Documentary (2025)

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