Report presenting the results of investigations into how digital practices are transforming the traditional cultural heritage interactions and practices. It explores the current challenges and potential opportunities for CH that lie ahead and reflects the context of change related to following fields: CH held by cultural institutions; mediated and unmediated CH; traditional hand-making skills; transformations of physical spaces, places and territories; digitization on performance-based CH.
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This project has received funding from the European Union’s Seventh Framework Programme for research, technological development and demonstration under grant agreement n° 612789.
Research Documents
D5.3 Fiscal and Economic Issues in the Digital Age
Report providing an economic analysis of the impact of taxation, public support and private contribution to the production, distribution and consumption of cultural heritage and to improve understanding of the geography of cultural activities and ways in which fiscal policy can become more efficient in the age of digitization.
Read More →D8.3 International Conference Proceedings – Pisa
Proceedings of the First RICHES International Conference, “Cultural Heritage: Recalibrating Relationships”, which took place in Pisa, at the Museum of Graphics of Palazzo Lanfranchi, on 4 and 5 December 2014.
Read More →D5.1 The Use of Craft Skills in New Contexts
Report outlining the results of a qualitative study that examined how craft skills can generate value and competitive advantage for the European creative economy, particularly with respect to employment and the creation of new jobs.
Read More →D4.1 European identity, belonging and the role for digital CH
Report outlining the results of a qualitative study that examined the importance of (digital) Cultural Heritage for identity-building processes within European communities and its role for the development of a European identity.
Read More →D2.2 Digital copyrights framework
Common framework of understanding for the RICHES project in relation to the law of copyright (and performer’s rights) and its importance for digital CH, cultural working practices that embrace co-creation as the norm and CH that is transformed from analogue to digital.
Read More →D2.1 CH Definitions and Taxonomy
RICHES theoretical framework of interrelated terms and definitions, within which further research may be conducted and shared and CH-related practices may be further developed.
Read More →The Digitization Age. Mass Culture is Quality Culture
The amount of digitized cultural heritage in Europe continues to grow: the digitization activities have a positive impact on the society, by making the cultural heritage more accessible for the citizens, and by generating benefits to the content owners. Several questions arise about digitized cultural heritage: how can digital cultural data be re-used at best, what is the impact on society and how to preserve it in the long term?
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