A Few Observation on Some Current Issues in the Digital Revolution of Cultural Heritage

The paper, tackling the highly topical issue of the digitalization of cultural heritage, dwells on the articulated reform process aiming at the digitalization of cultural heritage and emphasises the true social function of cultural property, whose universal availability is the ultimate goal pursued by Article 9 of the Constitution. The observations are based on the recent orientations of the Recovery and Resilience Plan, focusing on the analysis of the impact of artificial intelligence in the digital revolution of cultural heritage. In this perspective, the focus is on how the use of emerging technologies can act as a driver of new ways of valorising cultural property which exploit both the attractiveness potential of the property and innovative models of content presentation. The option to implement new technologies to cultural heritage is part of a more general vision focused on the possible “birth” of a digitalized cultural property that draws its cultural “value” from the intangible dimension of the basic asset. The idea behind the reflections that follow aims to overcome the “cosità” of things that are part of digitalized cultural property to dwell on the intangible value of the property to give it greater relevance and protection.