Project: Digital Heritage in Cultural Conflicts

Acronym	DigiCONFLICT (Reference Number: JPICH.DH.17.009)
Duration	01/06/2018 - 31/05/2021
Project Topic	DigiCONFLICT will explore the impact of digital heritage on contemporary engagements with the past in specific national frameworks in Poland, Sweden and Israel. Focusing on oral history, photography and multimedia museums as some of the most common media used to digitalise cultural heritage, the project endeavors to challenge widespread claims about the universality and democratising abilities of digital heritage. Even though digital heritage maintains the potential to increase cohesion across nations and social groups, it is equally used to cement elite power structures, define what counts as cultural heritage, and determine whose cultural heritage is worthy of preservation. While acknowledging the role digital heritage plays in shaping and distributing cultural heritage, the project’s point of departure is that digital heritage cannot be considered in separation from historical, cultural and national contexts. The project has three main aims: 1) to explore how national politics affect digital definitions of cultural heritage, 2) to investigate who creates and engages with digital heritage, and how, and 3) to study how the scope and value of cultural heritage are being negotiated and reformulated in a digital context. The consortium elaborates innovative research approaches to digital heritage through analysis of policy documents related to the case studies, to understand how specific institutions, governments and communities define, mark, and share cultural heritage. To achieve its aims, the consortium employs interviews with professionals and members of communities who participate in the digitalisation of cultural heritage. It studies what parameters affect the creation of digital heritage products, inquire what is gained and lost when cultural heritage becomes digital, and explore who the main beneficiaries are.
Network	JPI Cultural Heritage
Call	JPI Cultural Heritage - Digital Heritage Joint Call

Project partner

Number	Name	Role	Country
1	De Montfort University	Coordinator	United Kingdom
3	Liber pro Arte	Partner	Poland
4	Linköping University	Partner	Sweden