Rinascimento Digitale - EN - ASC

Fondazione Rinascimento Digitale – Nuove tecnologie per i beni culturali (Digital Renaissance Foundation – New Technologies for Cultural Heritage) is a no profit organization set up in 2004 and recognized at the national level in 2005. Its purpose consists in the study and promotion of the best theories and practices for the use of new technologies and communications in the diffusion and conservation of the cultural heritage.

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Name:

Fondazione Rinascimento Digitale - Nuove tecnologie per i beni culturali

Founding year:

2004

Location:

Via Bufalini, 6 50122 Firenze

Staff:

Board of Governors of the Fondazione Rinascimento Digitale 

2012 members:

Professor Paolo GALLUZZI (President)
Professor of Science History and Director of the Institute and Museum of the History of Science in Florence
Dr. Giuseppe ROGANTINI PICCO (Vice-president)
Member of the board of directors of Ente Cassa di Risparmio di Firenze
Antonio GHERDOVICH, Layer
President of Ente Cassa di Risparmio di Firenze
Dr. Cristina ACIDINI
Superintendent of Polo Museale of Florence.
Professor Alberto DEL BIMBO
Vice Chancellor for Innovation in the Università degli Studi di Firenze, and professor of the Engineering faculty – Department of Computer Science

Scientific Committee of the Fondazione, named by the funder.   2012 members:

Professor Paolo GALLUZZI, Fondazione Rinascimento Digitale, Museum Galileo
Professor Paolo BLASI (Coordinator), Università degli Studi di Firenze
Professor Vito CAPPELLINI, Università degli Studi di Firenze
Dr. Andrea GRANELLI, Kansosrl - Tecnologie per l'uomo
Professor Andrea BOZZI, Istituto di Linguistica Computazionale - CNR Pisa
Dr. Giovanni BERGAMIN, National Central Library of Florence
Dr. Maria SFRAMELI, Superintendent of Polo Museale of Florence
Professor Anna Maria TAMMARO, Università degli Studi di Parma
Professor Maria GUERCIO, Università degli Studi di Urbino

 Board of Auditors

In 2012 it is made of three acting auditors:

Dr. Lorenzo GALEOTTI FLORI
Dr. Giuseppe URSO
Dr. Corrado GALLI

Deputy auditors:

Dr. Riccardo PASSERI
Dr. Marco TANINI

  Staff: 2012 members:

Secretary of the Fondazione: Marco Rufino
Scientific Director of the Fondazione: Maurizio Lunghi
IIT and training manager: Matteo Paternò

Venues:

Venues where the Fondazione has organized events:

Auditorium di Santa Apollonia, Via San Gallo 25 - Firenze
Auditorium dell'Ente Cassa di Risparmio di Firenze, Via Folco Portinari 5/rosso - Firenze
SalaFerri in Palazzo Strozzi - Firenze
Sala Galileo Biblioteca Nazionale Centrale di Firenze (National Central Library of Florence), piazza Cavalleggeri 1 - Firenze
Salonedei Cinquecento in Palazzo Vecchio - Firenze
Piazza della Signoria - Firenze
Teatrod ella Pergola, Via della Pergola 30 - Firenze
Institute and Museum of the History of Science, Piazza dei Giudici 1 – Firenze

Contacts:

Tel. 0039 (0)55/2613904 Fax 0039 (0)55/2613906

Website:

Fondazione Rinascimento Digitale

Objectives:

The Fondazione believes that “the application of the new information and communication technologies for the valorization of cultural heritage is a diffused practice which responds both to the need of preserving the integrity of cultural heritage and to the demand of facilitating their use and accessfor a wider public”... And it is also of the opinion that there are too few initiatives of cultural heritage digitization and management able to meet the challenge. For this reason the Fondazione wants to define standards, methodologies and instruments able to preserve digital memories and to guarantee the adequate conservation of the original supports and digital technologies. In order to achieve these goals the Fondazione plans to form partnerships with centers of excellence on the local, national and international level that, sharing the same purposes, will co-finance events, courses, analyses, studies and research projects.

Sectors of intervention:

Conservation and valorization of cultural heritage

Activities:

'Training'  The Fondazione organizes seminars, workshops and courses to teach topublic and private practitioners the appropriate way of using the new technologies to preserve and fully valorize cultural heritage. The educational activities can be in class or on-line, with or without charge, and address the staff of agencies, institutions and organizations working in the field of cultural heritage. On the official website it is possible to find a page with all the education and training activities.

Events The Fondazione organizes conferences, workshops, round tables and seminars on the following issues:

preservation and enhancement of digital memory
metadata and standards
copyright and digital rights management applications and e technology for digital libraries.

A specific page of the website is dedicated to all the events in which the Fondazione is engaged.

Research A special page of the official web site recollects different documents linked to the activities of the Fondazione: articles, records of congresses, books, slides, tutorials, etc. (Part of the material is in English).

 Origin and History:

The Ente Cassa di Risparmio di Firenze set up the Fondazione Rinascimento Digitale on the 16th of December 2004. On May 16th 2005 the Fondazione was recognized as a legal entity at a national level.

Projects (fulfilled/ongoing/to be realized):

The Fondazione Rinascimento Digitale takes part in a wide-range of national and international projects. The themes confronted range from the production of digital contents to the management and accessibility of digital resources, from the preservation of digital memories to the study of e-services for cultural and scientific applications.

National projects

 Ongoing national projects (November 2012):

Magazzini Digitali
National Bibliography Number
ARTAT - Archives Ready To the AIPs Transmission
Pinakes3 - archivio integrato
PinakesText

 Fulfilled European Projects

Ongoing European Projects (November 2012):

 A page of the official website recollects all the projects and the achieved results.

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