Co-production in Digital Cultural Heritage: Bridging communication, Community, and Sustainability
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Date
2025
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The Eurographics Association
Abstract
Co-production has become crucial for Digital Cultural Heritage (Whitehead et al., 2021), based on stakeholder participation and redesign of traditional approaches (Cooper et al., 2021). The study aims to understand the use of digital strategies to foster co-production in the management of cultural heritage. Furthermore, it explores the consistency of such a management of cultural heritage with sustainability standards and the associated impact from citizens' and public decision-makers' perspectives. To that end, a multiple case study analysis on three Italian case studies was conducted: Via Francigena, Via degli Dei, and ''I Borghi piĆ¹ Belli d'Italia''. Findings highlight a strong alignment between co-production and public value theories. The cases show how collaboration is not incidental but rather the foundation of these projects' success: citizens and local stakeholders perceive themselves as partners in the heritage initiatives. All cases also developed governance arrangements that facilitate collaboration across organizational and jurisdictional boundaries, enabling the co-production.
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@inproceedings{10.2312:dh.20253171,
booktitle = {Digital Heritage},
editor = {Campana, Stefano and Ferdani, Daniele and Graf, Holger and Guidi, Gabriele and Hegarty, Zackary and Pescarin, Sofia and Remondino, Fabio},
title = {{Co-production in Digital Cultural Heritage: Bridging communication, Community, and Sustainability}},
author = {Meo, Beatrice and Falivena, Camilla and Giosi, Alessandro and Mondello, Virginia},
year = {2025},
publisher = {The Eurographics Association},
ISBN = {978-3-03868-277-6},
DOI = {10.2312/dh.20253171}
}