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OHCH is developing a digital transformation plan based on smart-city concepts. The digital collections management system is presented, a virtual space where digital objects are shared to give universal and collaborative access to Cuban cultural wealth. Innovation and collaboration have been the keys for the development of digital collections.

The Visual Archive Southeastern Europe (VASE), established in 2012, collects historical and contemporary visual material from Southeastern Europe and currently comprises four collections. The article presents the comprehensive redesign of VASE, which affects both the interface and the underlying data model.

This paper discusses interdisciplinary collaborative practices based on the AdA project (meaning “Affektrhetoriken des Audiovisuellen” https://projectada.github.io/) in which institutionally situated research groups from computational sciences and film studies developed approaches for the analysis of the temporal dynamics of audiovisual expressivity by bringing together a theoretically informed methodology of film analysis and computational video analysis and semantic video annotation. In an earlier publication, we already presented how co-building a Digital Humanities tool could be seen as instrumental genesis. In it we concentrated on the iterative development of a visualisation framework to highlight the need for a common language and for the consideration of time needed for collaboration.We would like to pursue the reflection on the instrumental genesis (Rabardel, 1995) of collaboration tools along the time dimension. We saw that every step of tool development for such qualitative and exploratory research requires time: may it be for tool sketching, development, testing, or documenting its usage for manual annotation.

[CA] En el present treball es pretén explicar l’estat de conservació que presenta en l’actualitat la pintura mural de Joaquín Michavila, en quines condicions ambientals es troba i les seves fluctuacions durant el dia, fer una proposta d’intervenció per tornar la integritat i llegibilitat d’aquesta, així com un plan de conservació prevenYva per a la perdurabilitat de l’obra. La pintura està situada a la parròquia de la Passió del Senyor, la qual es trola a l’avinguda del Cid, Carrer Miguel Paredes, 1 i pertany a la congregació del germans Passionistes. Es traca d’una obra de l’and 1961, realitzada ama una tècnica contemporània i en l’actualitat presenta deterioraments relazionato amb les condicions ambientals en què es troba, [EN] The present work aims to explain the state of conservaYon that the mural painYng by Joaquín Michavila currently presents, in what environmental condiYons it is found and its integrity and legibility, as well as a prevenYve conservaYon plan for the durability of the work. The painYng is located in the Passion of the Lord parish, which is located on Avenida del Cid, Calle Miguel Paredes, 1 and belongs to the congregaYon of the Passionist brothers. It is a work from 1961, made with a contemporary technique and currently shows deterioraYon related to the environmental condiYons in which it is found., [ES] En el presente trabajo se expone el estado de conservación que presenta en la actualidad la pintura mural de Joaquín Michavila La Pasión del Señor, en qué condiciones ambientales se encuentra y sus fluctuaciones durante el día. Con los datos obtenidos se plantea elaborar una ficha de catalogación y realizar un propuesta de intervención para devolver la integridad y legibilidad de esta, así como un plan de conservación prevenYva para la perdurabilidad de la obra, en la que se incluya una transferencia social de las medidas adecuadas. La pintura está situada en la parroquia de la Pasión del Señor, la cual se encuentra en la avenida del Cid, Calle Miguel Paredes, 1 y pertenece a la congregación de los hermanos Pasionistas. Se trata de una obra del año 1961, realizada con una técnica contemporánea y en la actualidad presenta deterioros relacionados con las condiciones ambientales en las que se encuentra.

[ES] El estudio de los bienes culturales requiere examinar sus características materiales y estado de conservación. Solo un análisis adecuado de sus necesidades permitirá determinar la conveniencia de adoptar medidas de prevención o de restauración para conseguir asegurar su permanencia en el tiempo. Este análisis no puede realizarse sin contemplar los acontecimientos que han incidido en los bienes culturales a lo largo de su historia, entre los que cabe destacar la modificación de las condiciones de uso, los cambios de ubicaciones experimentados, el historial de condiciones ambientales soportadas o los posibles siniestros sufridos. En este trabajo estudiaremos los registros que un notario valenciano, Artús Colent, confeccionó entre 1349 y 1388 y analizaremos las circunstancias en las que se conservaron desde su origen como instrumentos de derecho hasta su conversión en bienes de valor cultural, así como otras cuestiones relacionadas con la descripción archivística y las condiciones actuales de uso de documentos deteriorados en los archivos históricos donde se aplican programas de digitalización para su acceso y conservación., [EN] The study of any cultural heritage requires examining its material features and state of conservation. Only a proper analysis of their needs will make it possible to determine whether (and which) preventive or restoration actions should be carried out to ensure their permanence over time. This analysis should not be made without considering the events that have affected objects throughout its life, use or location changes and the environment conditions or disasters that they had endured. In this paper we will study the records that the Valencian notary, Artús Colent made between 1349 and 1388, and we will analyze the circumstances in which they were preserved from their origin as law instruments until their conversion into cultural heritage, as well as other issues related to archival description and current use conditions of deteriorated documents in historical archives where digitization projects are applied for their access and preservation.

This dissertation explores the early digitalization in Sweden. As host to the first summit on the environment in Stockholm 1972 (UNCHE), as leading procurer of computer equipment as well as initiator to the world's first national Data Act of 1973, Sweden pioneered domains that have since emerged as critical to our age: environmental challenges and digital technology. Both products of the 1970s, environmental monitoring and population surveillance have typically been studied as separate phenomena. This thesis insists that they belong to the same lineage of procedures. In an effort to move beyond both celebratory and repressive discourses of technology, it turns to the infrastructural and operational aspects of histories of data. Crucially, the investigation traces a series of changes within the cultural techniques of modelling, linking and reuse. In so doing, it positions itself at the intersection of environmental and digital humanities, and contributes to both research fields. The aim of the investigation is to demonstrate how the handling of data shaped the environment and the population as objects of knowledge and to examine its consequences for state administration. By "following data" – noting how they were collected, transformed, played with, transferred, encrypted, stored and erased – the material and procedural elements of historical undertakings are emphasized. The investigation is organized in three parts: environment, population, and administration. Seeking the system dynamics origins of the 1972 Stockholm conference and the cybernetic principles of the systems ecology within the International Biological Program (IBP), the first part attempts to look past the politics of environmental movements and turns, instead, to modelling as a critical operation. The second part questions the generic surveillance studies approach to the 1970 census taking (FoB 70) and privacy debate in Sweden by considering these as part of the longer history of linking. Centering on an archival statistics system (ARKSY), a newspaper coupon campaign and the "deep map" of early computer cartography, the thesis here locates a shift from privacy as a vulnerable trait protected by law to a matter of database administration with citizens as managers of their own data. The third and final part is framed by operations of reuse. Such operations, the dissertation maintains, materialized as instrumental not only to household waste management but also to the handling of data in offices and archives. Scrutinizing test environments for word processing in the Swedish Parliament and the work of the Data Archiving Committee (DAK), the investigation argues that they should be understood as sites of reuse and recycling rather than as locations of paperless exchange. With early digitalization, the environment and the population started to emerge as "problems of data". Data were typically demanded in "raw" format and routinely portrayed as a new type of natural resource. In this setting, infrastructures of reuse proved more fundamental than imperatives of surveillance. Markedly, the manual aspects of "automatic" data processing (ADB) were downplayed even as they remained indispensable. Cycles of data appeared in many guises: in the natural environment, in models, in mapping systems, in archives. Guided by the analytical power of cultural techniques and drawing on a wide range of materials, this investigation is a prehistory of our data-driven world. QC 20230125

This dissertation explores the early digitalization in Sweden. As host to the first summit on the environment in Stockholm 1972 (UNCHE), as leading procurer of computer equipment as well as initiator to the world's first national Data Act of 1973, Sweden pioneered domains that have since emerged as critical to our age: environmental challenges and digital technology. Both products of the 1970s, environmental monitoring and population surveillance have typically been studied as separate phenomena. This thesis insists that they belong to the same lineage of procedures. In an effort to move beyond both celebratory and repressive discourses of technology, it turns to the infrastructural and operational aspects of histories of data. Crucially, the investigation traces a series of changes within the cultural techniques of modelling, linking and reuse. In so doing, it positions itself at the intersection of environmental and digital humanities, and contributes to both research fields. The aim of the investigation is to demonstrate how the handling of data shaped the environment and the population as objects of knowledge and to examine its consequences for state administration. By "following data" – noting how they were collected, transformed, played with, transferred, encrypted, stored and erased – the material and procedural elements of historical undertakings are emphasized. The investigation is organized in three parts: environment, population, and administration. Seeking the system dynamics origins of the 1972 Stockholm conference and the cybernetic principles of the systems ecology within the International Biological Program (IBP), the first part attempts to look past the politics of environmental movements and turns, instead, to modelling as a critical operation. The second part questions the generic surveillance studies approach to the 1970 census taking (FoB 70) and privacy debate in Sweden by considering these as part of the longer history of linking. Centering on an archival statistics system (ARKSY), a newspaper coupon campaign and the "deep map" of early computer cartography, the thesis here locates a shift from privacy as a vulnerable trait protected by law to a matter of database administration with citizens as managers of their own data. The third and final part is framed by operations of reuse. Such operations, the dissertation maintains, materialized as instrumental not only to household waste management but also to the handling of data in offices and archives. Scrutinizing test environments for word processing in the Swedish Parliament and the work of the Data Archiving Committee (DAK), the investigation argues that they should be understood as sites of reuse and recycling rather than as locations of paperless exchange. With early digitalization, the environment and the population started to emerge as "problems of data". Data were typically demanded in "raw" format and routinely portrayed as a new type of natural resource. In this setting, infrastructures of reuse proved more fundamental than imperatives of surveillance. Markedly, the manual aspects of "automatic" data processing (ADB) were downplayed even as they remained indispensable. Cycles of data appeared in many guises: in the natural environment, in models, in mapping systems, in archives. Guided by the analytical power of cultural techniques and drawing on a wide range of materials, this investigation is a prehistory of our data-driven world.

Ageing of historical documents often results in changes in the optical properties of the constituent materials. Imaging spectroscopy (IS) can be a valuable tool for monitoring of such changes, if the method fulfils two important conditions. Firstly, compared to natural ageing, the accumulated light dose from repeated measurements of the monitored document must not induce any significant degradation. Secondly, the monitoring instrumentation and procedures should be sensitive enough to detect changes in the materials before they become visible. We present experimental methods to evaluate the suitability of IS instrumentation for monitoring purposes. In the first set of experiments, the impact of repeated monitoring measurements was determined using a set of Blue Wool Standard materials. In the second set of experiments, the capability of the instrument to detect spectral changes was tested using ISO standard materials and several documents representative of European archive collections. It is concluded that the tested hyperspectral instrument is suitable for monitoring of the colour change of documents during display. The described experimental approach can be recommended to test the suitability of other imaging spectroscopy instruments for monitoring applications.

vol.16(4) (2017) 035-047, The paper discusses the open, inclusive, dynamic, proactive notion of cultural heritage that is emerging in the international scientific debate. Some significant innovations are examined first: the overcoming of the dualism between tangible and intangible cultural heritage, the increasing role of local communities in the processes of heritage recognition, safeguarding and enhancement and the need for valorisation as a democratic mandate. Aiming at developing this approach, the second step of the research focuses on industrial heritage, investigating its specific features and values. A case study is provided in order to understand some crucial issues concerning industrial heritage management and value creation. Focusing on the City of Paper (Fabriano, Italy), the activities carried out by the Museum of Paper and Watermark and by the Institute of Paper History Gianfranco Fedrigoni (ISTOCARTA) are analysed in-depth, highlighting the role of collaboration among the different actors involved in industrial heritage management in order to promote sustainable local development.