Rethinking Scholarly Digital Objects as Cultural Heritage: the KNOT Project

The KNOT project is a three-year pilot tasked with investigating ways to integrate the digital cultural heritage (DCH) of Italian universities within the national infrastructure being developed by the Ministry of Culture. To do this, KNOT argues for rethinking the digital objects produced by academi...

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Main Authors: Laurent Fintoni, Marilena Daquino, Francesca Tomasi
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Published: University of Bologna 2025-07-01
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Online Access:https://umanisticadigitale.unibo.it/article/view/21188
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description The KNOT project is a three-year pilot tasked with investigating ways to integrate the digital cultural heritage (DCH) of Italian universities within the national infrastructure being developed by the Ministry of Culture. To do this, KNOT argues for rethinking the digital objects produced by academic research projects as interesting and, so far, unexplored examples of this DCH deserving of more attention and worthy of integration into the national infrastructure. This article discusses the key steps in the development of a conceptual framework in support of this argument starting with 1) the definition of these objects and identification of the potential heritage values they hold, 2) the selection of the humanities, and in particular the digital humanities, as the academic field from which to select them, 3) the development and publication of a data model and catalogue, and 4) some of the key issues that arose during this work around the classification, documentation, and visibility of these objects.
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spelling doaj-art-02f754ed22824b65b05532041d479ed42025-08-20T02:39:41ZengUniversity of BolognaUmanistica Digitale2532-88162025-07-012038140310.6092/issn.2532-8816/2118819565Rethinking Scholarly Digital Objects as Cultural Heritage: the KNOT ProjectLaurent Fintoni0Marilena Daquino1Francesca Tomasi2Università di Bologna, ItaliaUniversità di Bologna, ItaliaUniversità di Bologna, ItaliaThe KNOT project is a three-year pilot tasked with investigating ways to integrate the digital cultural heritage (DCH) of Italian universities within the national infrastructure being developed by the Ministry of Culture. To do this, KNOT argues for rethinking the digital objects produced by academic research projects as interesting and, so far, unexplored examples of this DCH deserving of more attention and worthy of integration into the national infrastructure. This article discusses the key steps in the development of a conceptual framework in support of this argument starting with 1) the definition of these objects and identification of the potential heritage values they hold, 2) the selection of the humanities, and in particular the digital humanities, as the academic field from which to select them, 3) the development and publication of a data model and catalogue, and 4) some of the key issues that arose during this work around the classification, documentation, and visibility of these objects.https://umanisticadigitale.unibo.it/article/view/21188digital humanitiesdigital cultural heritageitalian universitiesdocumentationaiucd2024
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