The policy on Digital Cultural Heritage sets out methodological principles in line with openness and knowledge sharing practices for:
- Managing digitisation projects.
- Establishing and preserving digital cultural heritage collections.
- Developing services for the use and enhancement of digital cultural heritage.
Cultural Heritage, when properly managed and preserved, is a fundamental resource for individual and collective growth, sustainable development, and quality of life in a peaceful, democratic society, respectful of diversities. This is underlined in the Council of Europe Framework Convention on the value of cultural heritage for society, signed in Faro on 27 October 2005.
Digital technology can enhance interactions between communities and cultural heritage and can intensify interpretation processes. This encourages openness to new audiences, enables the emergence of new relationships and interconnections, promotes participation and creation of new knowledge even outside academic communities.
The University Policy specifically addresses University structures in charge of the preservation and enhancement of cultural heritage, as well as those responsible for digitisation projects and the establishment of digital collections of cultural heritage. These initiatives are typically developed in the framework of activities of research or cultural interest promoted by the University Departments and Research Centres.