The project aims to explore the legal, political, socio-economic and technological factors driving the digitisation of cultural heritage for minority groups.
The project will design a new and practical framework that promotes equity, inclusion and diversity in the representation of digital cultural content. The framework will be developed collaboratively with representatives from three minority groups: the Sámi, the Jewish people and the Ladin people. The process will incorporate user-focused techniques including design thinking and legal design. The framework will take into account the legal, political, socio-economic and technological aspects of cultural heritage digitisation.
Project partners will create knowledge-based recommendations for policy and decision-makers. These recommendations will focus on enhancing digitalisation efforts for cultural heritage collections with an emphasis on Improving equity, diversity and inclusion by placing minority groups at the centre of the digitalisation efforts.
The project is funded under the Horizon Europe programme of the European Union.
The project will run for 36 months and is led by Vilnius Gediminas Technical University from Lithuania. The other members of the consortium are:
Europeana Foundation, Netherlands
Friedrich-Schiller-Universitat Jena, Germany
Lapin Yliopisto, Finland
Istituto Italiano Di Studi Germanici, Italy
Kansallisarkisto, Finland
Jewish Heritage Network, Netherlands
Istituto Culturale Ladino, Italy
Viesoji Istaiga Lietuvos Inovaciju Centras, Lithuania
Associated partners:
Network to Promote Linguistic Diversity (NPLD), Belgium
Time Machine Organisation, Austria
Discover how the Nuohtti portal makes access to the Sámi heritage collected in archives across Europe easier, and how the DIGICHer project is developing Sámi engagement in their digitised cultural heritage.
The DIGICHer - Digitisation of the cultural heritage of minority communities for equity and renewed engagement - project is kicking off in Finland this week. We explore how the project plans to promote equity, inclusion and diversity in the representation of digital cultural content.
