GIOVANNI CURIONI’S DIGITAL MUSEUM (2/2): POSSIBLE STRATEGIES FOR A DATA MANAGEMENT PLAN

Abstract

In recent years, the Politecnico di Torino (Italy) is undertaking actions to promote and disseminate its historical archival and material heritage, both with onsite events and with digital tools and platforms dedicated to its digital museum. One of its most important collections is the Curioni’s one (1860–1887). It preserves reproductions of building structures used as teaching aids in the teaching of Construction Science. We are now working on the digitisation project of those artefacts, and we propose a study on the data management protocol structured to satisfy the FAIR principles (Findable, Accessible, Interoperable, Re-Usable). In fact, with the purpose of sharing and enhancing its materials, the Politecnico promotes the digitisation of its entire collection of Curioni’s models, to create a new section of its virtual museum. To this extent, one goal of our research is to foster the accessibility of this tangible heritage in the digital domain. In accordance with the Italian national digitisation plan, PND, we defined a Digital Management Plan for the cultural heritage products, DMP, to guarantee FAIR principles in sharing 3D digital artefacts of the Curioni’s collection. The DMP originated as public administration data management, but the result of this study demonstrates its usefulness also for digital cultural data management.