Open heritage is the application of open culture solutions and open source software for the academic research, safeguard, and open education of cultural heritage and natural heritage,[1][2] including religious heritage[3] and sacred natural sites, in compliance with the United Nations Education Science Culture Organization (UNESCO) recommendations on open education[4] that regulate the Blue Shield International World Heritage Convention for world heritage sites and the International Council of Museums (ICOM).
The movement has just developed the Open Heritage Statement.[5]
Institutions
Some of the most prominent networks in the field today, which produce resources and events with collaborators from all around the world, are the:
- European Union (EU) OpenHeritage Platform[6]
- Creative Commons (CC) Open Culture Platform.
- ICOM Movement for the International New Museology (MINOM) Digital Resources for Online Public Services (DROPS) Ecomuseology Platform.
Open source software
The movement has developed a series of free libre and open source software (FLOSS) that are the open standard in the field,[7] like:
- Protégé
- Getty Research Institute Arches[8][9]
- Google Arts & Culture Open Heritage[10]
- Open Heritage 3D[11]
- Future for Religious Heritage (FRH)
- International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) Sacred Natural Sites (SNS) International[12]
References
- ↑ van Knippenberg, Karim (2020), "Opening up heritage : beyond a conceptualization as object or process", Opening up the planning landscape : 15 years of actor-relational approaches to spatial planning in Flanders, the Netherlands and beyon, InPlanning, pp. 343–350, hdl:1854/LU-8674694, ISBN 978-94-91937-44-6, retrieved 2025-10-02
{{citation}}: CS1 maint: work parameter with ISBN (link) - ↑ Iaione, Christian; De Nictolis, Elena; Santagati, Maria Elena (2022-05-26). "Participatory Governance of Culture and Cultural Heritage: Policy, Legal, Economic Insights From Italy". Frontiers in Sustainable Cities. 4 777708. Bibcode:2022FrSC....4.7708I. doi:10.3389/frsc.2022.777708. hdl:11385/224621. ISSN 2624-9634.
- ↑ "Future for Religious Heritage". Future for Religious Heritage. Retrieved 2025-10-02.
- ↑ "UNESCO Open Educational Resources (OER) Dynamic Coalition". UNESCO OER Dynamic Coalition Portal. Retrieved 2025-10-02.
- ↑ "Open Heritage Statement". Open Heritage Statement. Retrieved 2025-10-02.
- ↑ "OpenHeritage – People. Places. Potential".
- ↑ Harris, Dee (2025-09-18). "The Benefits of Open Heritage in the Digital Environment". Creative Commons. Retrieved 2025-10-02.
- ↑ "Arches Project Open Source Data Management Platform". November 24, 2015.
- ↑ "Standards and Interoperability". Getty Arches Project. 2012-11-25. Retrieved 2025-10-02.
- ↑ "Open Heritage". Google Arts & Culture.
- ↑ "Open Heritage 3D". openheritage3d.org.
- ↑ "Sacred Natural Sites - Conserving Nature and Culture".