The Handbook for professionals produced within the international Erasmus+ project entitled iNTANGIBLE – Digitizing Intangible Cultural Heritage Amidst the Digital Shift has been launched online in the form of a PDF book.
The Project “iNTANGIBLE: Digitizing Intangible Cultural Heritage amidst the digital shift” (2021-1-RO01- KA220-VET-000034794) is a strategic partnership in the field of vocational education and training, funded through the Erasmus+ Programme, spanning over a two year-timeframe: January 2022 – December 2023. The project consortium includes one cultural organization as project leader (“Moldova” National Museum Complex of Iași, Romania), one research partner (The Romanian Academy, Iași Branch through the ”Alexandru Philippide” Institute of Romanian Philology – the Ethnology Department), one tech organization (Innovation Hive, from Larissa, Greece), one STEAM and digital communication focused partner (RADIONA, from Zagreb, Croatia) and a VET provider (Stando, from Nicossia, Cyprus).
The partnership has been brought together to bridge the gap between digital and cultural experts through their input and expertise and the consequent development of relevant Project Results and Training, encompassing innovative elements needed to match the digital shift in the cultural realm.
The handbook consists of an introduction into the field of ICH, a review of the literature regarding the concepts of digitization and digitalization, then it provides examples at national and at local levels of ICH digitization initiatives. It also includes a synthetic presentation of the answers to the questionnaires that were distributed and interpreted by partners as part of the methodological research, as well as examples of good practices gathered at partnership level.
We are convinced that this handbook will serve as a both ICH and IC&T empowerment tool for the professionals of the concerned fields, involving transfer of knowledge and skills from one domain to another, thus providing a global view of the preservation of cultural heritage as immersed into technological advances and contributing to the development of confidence in the own competences.
This handbook is designed to offer clear and accessible steps towards understanding the existing practices and strategies of using the digital technologies for storing, preserving and disseminating of intangible cultural heritage data. Presently, digital technologies are everywhere in our lives, from digital public services to entertainment and daily communication.
In the educational sector, the digital approach is more and more used and it generates innumerable possibilities for distance learning and global connections; among the digital educational tools, we can now enjoy MOOCs (Massive open online courses) or e-learning platforms, and expand our knowledge in many fields, no matter where we are.
The Handbook iNTANGIBLE is available here for download: https://intangible-project.eu/wp-content/uploads/2023/11/INTANGIBLE_HANDBOOK-FOR-CULTURE-PROFESSIONALS_EN_compressed.pdf
Authors: Ioana Baskerville, Adina Hulubaș
Introduction: Coralia Costaș
Text contributions: Deborah Hustić, Victor Munteanu, Ana-Maria Rață, Thrasos Tilemachou, Chrysi-Maria Triantafyllou
Editor: Coralia Costaș
DTP: Thrasos Tilemachou
Cover: Cătălin Hriban
Publisher PALATUL CULTURII, 2023
Complexul Muzeal Național „Moldova” Iași
ISBN 978-606-8547-62-6