What’s Digital Heritage?

A project born with a single obsession: to preserve cultural heritage for future generations. The world of digital innovation is called to fulfil a relevant and fundamental function as an active cultural element that contributes to the task that we all have been entrusted with: that Humanity can remember, recover and preserve everything that has shaped its material past, both artistic and historical. In 2003, UNESCO established the definition of Digital Heritage:

“Resources of human knowledge or expression, whether cultural, educational, scientific and administrative or embracing technical, legal, medical and other kinds of information, are increasingly created digitally or converted into digital form from existing analogue resources. Where resources are “born digital”, there is no other format but the digital original."

The fifteen years that have passed since this prophetic declaration was made have confirmed each and every one of its words: the technological revolution, nowadays, is a close and present reality, with such a dizzying development that it seems impossible to guess its limits.

More and more users and institutions are using this tool not only to document the archives and arrange the basements of the great museums but also to show, recapitulate and make accessible all the heritage of past, present and future generations. Past culture and technology go hand in hand in a natural and indivisible complementary way that enriches both and, by extension, ourselves.

The Digital Heritage Review endorses all those initiatives and good practices in digital format, wherever they come from, that contribute to the wonderful task of conservation in the artistic field. 

Never before has Humanity been able to enjoy the works of its creators in such a free and widespread way, and yet never before have they been subjected to so many and such dangers that constantly threaten them with the disappearance. To this double task, we direct our steps, under the conviction that only through the understanding and the international regulations it will be possible to achieve this dream that unites protection and freedom of access. 

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