The changing role of cultural heritage institutions in the digital realm

In response to the research findings about the value of active cultural participation through digital heritage and the potential role for CHIs in the digital landscape, inDICEs formulated a policy brief “Towards community-driven digital cultural heritage with a purpose”. It introduces a set of policy recommendations designed to assist CHIs in fulfilling their public mission in the digital realm through democratic and community-focused digital transformation.

The Change Impact Assessment Framework aims at enriching and supporting the inDICEs Policy Brief, providing you with a simple and practical tool that can help your transition toward a community-driven CHI. The framework especially sustains the following points of the inDICEs policy brief:

2. Empower democratic and community-focused CHIs

2.1 Review and enhance CHIs’ operational principles and practices to support participation, co-creation and community focus

2.2 Develop frameworks for digital community engagement

4. Make the heritage sector a pillar of the European digital public space

4.3 Encourage Cultural Heritage Institutions to play an active role in exploring the creation of participatory platforms which support reuse

Building on these proposed recommendations, the sections that follow aim to equip you with a better understanding of how to design cultural participatory activities to achieve this community-driven CHI vision. You will be able not only to review your work while going through the “8 Impact Areas” proposed in the framework, but you will also be able to develop your proper personalised framework using different metrics and measurements.

The additional presence of best practices in the digital world of successful CHIs participatory activities are also parts of the framework, as a source of encouragement for CHIs to play an active role while exploring the creation of participatory platforms which support reuse.