Driving digital transformation in Cultural Heritage Institutions - Session 1

Описание: Heritage Policies and strategies for the digital transformation of practices - Antonella Fresa

Digital transformation implies several complementary actions that the cultural heritage institutions are demanded to cope with.
Digitisation of cultural heritage is just the beginning of a longer process that is expected to land the cultural heritage sector in a new dimension made of shared data, adoption of new standards, understanding of the technological challenges, awareness of the the social implications, engagement of human resources, financial investments and much more.
In this endeavour, the knowledge of the landscape of European policies and strategic visions is very relevant to orientate the efforts of the public and private sectors.
The main programmes, recommendations, reports and action plans published by the institutions of the European Union will be illustrated in the keynote speech delivered in the webinar.
The topics of Horizon Europe and Digital Europe programmes will be presented with a focus on cultural contents, namely the pillar 2 of Horizon Europe, the development of the collaborative cultural cloud for cultural heritage (ECCCH) and the common European data space for cultural heritage.
The Recommendation of the European Commission to the Member States of November 2021 will also be considered with regard to the whole dimension of the production and management of 3D cultural contents.
Also the research infrastructures for cultural heritage, specifically DARIAH and ERHIS, will be considered as part of the whole scenario of policies and strategies for the digital transformation of cultural heritage.

About the speaker

Antonella Fresa is an ICT expert, Vice President of Photoconsortium and Director of Implementations at Promoter Srl. She has been working on European cooperation projects since 1994 as Technical Coordinator and Communication Manager in the domains of digitisation of cultural heritage, access and creative re-use of digital content, long-term digital preservation, smart cities, citizen science, cultural tourism, eInfrastructures and cloud technologies. From 2002 to 2012, she was advisor of the Italian Ministry of Cultural Heritage and Activities and from 1999 to 2002, Project Officer at the European Commission. She regularly serves as an independent expert for the European Commission and national and regional research programmes. Since 2022 she is contracted professor at the University of Pisa.