Fondazione Rinascimento Digitale – Nuove Tecnologie per i Beni Culturali (Digital Renaissance Foundation – New Technologies for Cultural Heritage) came into existence to combine the resources, experience and know-how matured in this ambit in our country. It seeks to promote, on a high quality standard, the application of the new information and communication technologies in view of valorising cultural heritage, intended in the vast sense, assuming initiatives in research, consultancy, documentation, promotion, education and dissemination, also in collaboration with other institutions.
The use of digital technologies to preserve and valorise the cultural heritage is a growingly widespread phenomenon that responds to the demand to conserve the integrity of cultural heritage and facilitate their use and access by a growing public.
These past years have witnessed the onset of many initiatives, some of them ambitious, to digitalise and manage cultural heritage via computer. But for several meaningful exceptions, the results obtained have not been up to expectations and invested resources. The practitioners involved in these initiatives were not able to assume a core role in the innovation processes, nor was it possible to affirm the awareness of the Web’s potentials in study and research.
Few actions targeted arousing awareness of the fragility of digital memories, which require adequate maintenance and conservation processes in order for informatics and digital technologies to be systematically adopted in preserving, managing and valorising cultural heritages and activities.
