This annual conference is organized by the Professional Association of Archives and Document Management of Catalonia. The 2024 theme of the conference is: New heritages, new feudalisms: the servitudes of digital documentation. The programme of 2024 edition discussed importance and challenges of establishing policies, strategies, processes, instruments and collaborations for the preservation of digital assets, and focuses on three main themes:

• [DIGITAL ASSETS] What do we guard? This line reflects on the object itself (concept of digital heritage) and the archival challenges we face. (axis 1)
• PROCESSES, TECHNOLOGY] How and where do we guard it? This line aims to reflect on the different technological models and the custody of digital heritage, as well as the technological challenges that arise from them. (axis 2)
• [PEOPLE] Who guards? This line revolves around the aspects linked to the Catalan digital heritage strategy, such as the organizational structure, competences and the democratization of access. (axis 3)

As invited speaker, Antonella Fresa, vice president of Photoconsortium and project coordinator of EUreka3D, delivered a presentation entitled Digital transformation of cultural heritage: challenges and opportunities, policies and good practices, also presenting the new initiative of the EC for the creation of a common European data space for cultural heritage. The data space aims to improve availability of high-quality cultural contents in the digital world, foster its reuse, increase the offer of 3D and extended reality (XR) cultural content sand scenarios, and offert training, support and capacity building opportunities to cultural heritage institutions.

The presentation also showed the work being done in EUreka3D as a supporting project for the data space, with the aim of creating services and tools for cultural institutions in implementing high quality and reusable 3D digitization processes to share their cultural collections.

• Download Antonella’s presentation (PDF, 1.8 Mb)

Programme of the conference: https://arxivers.com/congressos-i-jornades/jornades-destudi-i-debat/xiv-jornada-2022-2/programa-de-la-xv-jornada-destudi-i-debat/

This effort and blog are part of the project on a common European data space for cultural heritage, for supporting reuse of digital resources and capacity building in the area of digital transformation of the education and cultural sector.