Digital Community Heritage and Open Access

What is our current understanding of community? A community is a fluid, broad and multi-faceted concept, bound by a i. sense of identity, ii. sense of belonging and iii. interconnections among community members (<a href="https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/international-journal-of-cultural-property/article/abs/lifting-the-lid-on-the-community-who-has-the-right-to-control-access-to-traditional-knowledge-and-expressions-of-culture/200FA038096EC286BFBC8DDB4D0ABC08" rel="noopener ugc nofollow" target="_blank">Forsyth, 2012</a>). Τhe UNESCO Convention for the Safeguarding of the Intangible Cultural Heritage (<a href="https://ich.unesco.org/en/convention" rel="noopener ugc nofollow" target="_blank">2003</a>), which foregrounds communities in the heritage context, does not specify “community” permitting freedom over its definition. Communities can be self-determined, recognising their representational belonging at grassroots level, or not self-identified (historicised communities). In digital settings, communities can be enabled in more “passive” modes, through user contribution, peer-to-peer or Human-Computer Interaction (HCI). Of course, communities can display overlapping factors and a complex web of relations that are often not easily identifiable (<a href="https://webarchive.unesco.org/20151105171733/http:/www.unesco.lacult.org/lacult_en/docc/CyD_12_en.pdf" rel="noopener ugc nofollow" target="_blank">Pérez López, 2014</a>). <a href="https://medium.com/creative-commons-we-like-to-share/digital-community-heritage-and-open-access-7e3477ef2131">Read More</a>