Content:

◊ Introduction. Cultural Heritage as the Genetic Code of Societies and the Role of Digital Technologies in its Preservation

◊ The Influence of Digitization on the Transformation of the Heritage Institutions

◊ La memoire d`un patrimoine culturel au prisme d`une plateforme numerique : le cas de la Fete des Vignerons sur notre Histoire.ch

◊ The Technical Infrastructure of Cultural Initiatives on Wikimedia: Three Case Studies from Brazil

◊ Le risque argileux : un problème sans controverses?

By looking to the past, this special issue aims not only to contribute to the understanding of cultural heritage, but also to reflect on the potential that communication systems can have for its dissemination and preservation. By looking to the future, it aims to contribute so that present and future generations understand the importance of what, later on, will also be cultural heritage, be aware of it and perceive it as a space where they can find ways to combine communication systems and cultural heritage preservation. Assuming, here, a logic of looking to the future.

Contributori:

Eder Porto Alves, Ana Carla Amaro, Cecilia Brassier-Rodrigues, Thomas Bihay, Mariane Bourcheix-Laporte, Paul R. Burley, Fateh Chemerik, Etienne Damome, Solange Ferraz De Lima, Elodie Fisher, Evgeniia Krichever, Mary Elizabeth Luka, Jason Maurer, Ana Melro, Lídia Oliveira, Michael William Peel, Joao Alexandre Peschanski, Sebastien Rouquette, Ugo Roux, Debbie Ebanks Schlums, Claudia Sicondolfo, Tatiana Smirnova, Raegan Swanson, Mylene Tanferri, Lubov A. Tsyganova, Dominique Vinck