4Science workshop at the Stelline Conference: Last week during our workshop “Interoperability, relationships and digital ecosystems between cultural heritage and scientific research” at the Stelline Conference we explored fundamental issues for the future of cultural heritage and scientific research.
Here are some highlights:
Relationships: an effective digital ecosystem must be able to manage the relationships between digital objects, providing tools to design, describe and communicate them in order to fully enhance our heritage.
Interoperability: a crucial feature of digital ecosystems, understood both in terms of interoperability between different domains and with external systems, which makes it possible to avoid the duplication of digital information and objects, and also becomes an enabling tool with respect to the possibilities given by artificial intelligence, which plays an increasingly central role in the development of new functionalities.
From theory to practice: with an increasingly varied heritage, which includes book, archival, artistic and naturalistic assets, it is essential to be able to extend the data model so as to be able to define multiple relationships between digital objects, ensuring strict adherence to specific standards.
The solutions
With DSpace-GLAM and DSpace-CRIS all this is possible: both platforms already provide extensive interoperability with external digital services and ecosystems within their reference domain, such as interoperability with IIIF or with the COAR Notify protocol, and further developments are in the roadmap.
A great success
Thank you to all the participants for making this meeting possible! We are excited to build an increasingly interconnected digital future that allows us to maximize the dissemination of knowledge and cultural heritage!
For further information or to receive the material presented during the workshop, contact us at info@4science.com
