| Abstract |
The Art. 2 of the UECouncil conclusions of21May2014on cultural heritage as a strategic resource for a sustainable Europe(2014/C 183/08) states: "Cultural heritage consists of the resources inherited from the past in all forms and aspects-tangible, intangible and digital (born digital and digitized), including monuments, sites, landscapes, skills, practices, knowledge and expressions of human creativity, as well as collections conserved and managed by public and private bodies such as museums, libraries and archives". Starting from this assumption, we have to rethink digital and digitization as social and cultural expressions of the contemporary age. We need to rethink digital libraries produced by digitization as cultural entities and no longer as mere dataset for enhancing fruition of cultural heritage, by defining clear and homogeneous criteria to validate and certify them as memory and sources of knowledge for future generations. By expandingR:Re-usableof theFAIR Guiding Principles for scientific data management and stewardshipintoR(4):Re-usable,Relevant,ReliableandResilient, this paper aims to propose a more reflective approach to creation of descriptive metadata for managing digital resource of cultural heritage, which can guarantee their long term preservation. |
