An Integrated Strategy for Cultural Heritage

The Information Communication Technologies are transforming our way to work and to live. Their social and economical impact represents a key opportunity for new development in every field of knowledge. Another event is the awareness of the importance of cultural heritage, and the needs of exploit and manage it: the number of visitors to museums, historical monuments and archaeological sites, grows day by day. The extension of the concept of cultural heritage of various nature, the relationship between their conservation and the relative fruition issues new challenges such as the combined utilisation of various databases online, the creation of supranational and multilingual dictionaries. The rapid obsolescence of technologies furthermore imposes the attention to data storage. However, the aspects, which most involve the online user, are both the interface and easy access to different subjects and contents. The contribution is focussed on advanced technologies and ICT tools addressed to monument conservation and management. It will provide a general overview on different approaches world-wide and will consider in detail a set of projects that address these issues. From these bases an additional objective is to merge the phenomena and give students and young researchers the opportunity to explore the use of advanced technologies for access to, understanding, preservation and economic promotion of cultural heritage.