Enhancing Not-outstanding Cultural Landscapes in a European Perspective: a Challenge for Digitization

Italy, like Europe, is marked by the presence of areas, placed in different geographical zones, but with similar characteristics in abandonment or trends in the housing surplus, and in a state of incipient decay. These areas are often characterized by a rich history of anthropic elements of widespread cultural heritage, although intangible, which developed the many local identities. In order to regenerate such areas, the paper asks which possibility is now providing digitization, considering not only translating analog information into digital copies (texts, images, drawings, maps, data sets, funds audio/video, etc.) but above all looking carefully at manifold solutions able to cope a growing demand for social inclusion expressed through cultural heritage.