The multimedia technologies and the new realities for knowledge networking and valorisation of scientific cultural heritage. The role of the Italian University Museums network

The framework program about multimedia technologies for the networking and the valorization of scientific cultural heritage in the Italian University Museums among thirteen Italian Universities (Bari, Cagliari, Chieti-Pescara, Ferrara, Florence, Modena and Reggio Emilia, Parma, Perugia, Rome “La Sapienza”, Salento, Naple II, Siena, Tuscia), with the coordination of the University of Modena, has been recently approved and financed by the Italian Ministry of Education, University and Research. It aims at activating a network that by multimedia technologies wish contribute to knowledge and valorization of cultural heritage through the collaboration of UMAC University Museums and Collections International Committee of ICOM. The final target will be a bilingual web portal realized, on purpose for the project, in an innovative perspective considering the peculiar features of the different University Museums collections, the experience of each, their interdisciplinary characterization and the possible uses in a contemporary historical, social and cultural context. The first step is to monitor the cultural heritage of the thirteen University Museums, in order to complete the already existing databases and align them to catalogue standards released by the Central Institute for Cataloguing and Documentation of the Italian Ministry of the Culture within the General Informative System for Cataloguing SIGECWeb.