"Digital transitions in the Cultural Heritage Sector"

The CHI sector is today embracing the urgency to transform the threat of COVID-19 into an opportunity to make cultural and creative content accessible through digitization. By looking at the on-line Open Platforms’ features and interactions ( a complex mix of market and non-market elements, a mutable space in perpetual evolution and increasingly interactive with traditional sectors through forms of direct engagement )  the CHI sector can find brand new instruments to tackle the challenge and orchestrate its development plan.

In this view, some museums are already implementing best practices of value (co)creation in terms of serving as innovation and welfare hotspots, sustainability facilitators, social cohesion gateways, etc. by digitizing and opening their collections and activities to the possibility of creative appropriation and remix of its contents by users. Looking at the entire CHI sector and at its interactions, which are the practices that can today be considered well- established and which are the emerging trends in terms of involving users in the production, re-production and preservation of digitized culture? When cultural digitized contents engage in dialogue with the Digital Single Market, which forms can take and in which sectors are mainly re-used?

The WP1 session of the 2nd Consultation workshop, named “Emergent forms of digital cultural production/reproduction, participation and re-use of CHI contents in DSM”, is divided in two main parts: a roundtable discussion and a workshop, characterized by in depth discussions.