Sciences and humanities intersections: good practices

Abstract

In modern times interdisciplinarity has become the leading trend, therefore, bringing together sciences and humanities: “digital humanities” is already a term widely recognized, while the term of “applied sciences” is being rendered definite. When focusing in the scientific field of cultural heritage and collective memory preservation, it becomes clear that a big-data-handling issue becomes more and more visible, calling for the urgent need of a holistic documentation model, under the basic perspective of data (re)use, accessibility and interoperability, as expressed by data standardization, that is documentation schemas and controlled vocabularies. Consequently, various directives have been already drawn up, such as the European Commission's Directorate-General for Communications Networks, Content and Technology (CNECT) or the FAIR Guiding Principles for scientific data management and stewardship.

Additional perspective, people’s community inclusion and active participation in matters of culture, as is reflected in charters, more precisely, with particular clarity, in the Faro Convention, enhancing open access-open data, free software, as well as crowdsourcing procedures.

The specific paper constitutes an epigrammatic overview of the afore-mentioned trends, aiming to highlight the most appropriate good practices in the scientific field of cultural heritage documentation.