Cultural tourism and heritage digitization in a Linked Open Data environment: the Europeana case

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https://doi.org/10.54886/scire.v27i1.4730

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Cultural tourism, Cultural heritage, Digitization, Open data, Europeana

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The paper reviews the projects developed by Euro-peana to show the role that digitization, linked open data and cultural heritage can play in strengthening the cultural tourism sector. A series of basic statis-tical data about tourism and cultural tourism is provided to frame it as an economic sector. The fundamental strategies of the European institutions on cultural tourism are reviewed, as well as the preponderant role they assign to Europeana. These strategies have been disrupted and accelerated in response to the economic debacle caused by the COVID-19 pandemic. The main strategic plans of the Government of Spain for the development of the economy, research and innovation and for the digital transformation of Public Administrations are mentioned, having in mind the role that these plans assign to cultural tourism and memory institutions

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2021-06-22

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Hernández Carrascal, F., & Agenjo Bullón, X. (2021). Cultural tourism and heritage digitization in a Linked Open Data environment: the Europeana case. Scire: Knowledge Representation and Organization (ISSNe 2340-7042; ISSN 1135-3716), 27(1), 13–22. https://doi.org/10.54886/scire.v27i1.4730

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