AI-Innovative digitization and management processes for Digital Libraries and Archives cultural heritage: toward an inclusive and sustainable phygital ecosystem

In its most recent interpretation, the concept of ‘cultural heritage’ goes beyond any physical, chronological or identity classification, taking the form of a network of relationships based on the dialectic between heritage and possible communities. An archaeological site, an archive, a library, a collection or a museum cannot be fully understood or studied without relating them to the context in which they were produced and to the consequences they generated. Without a human context of reference, no cultural heritage can be managed, protected, safeguarded and enhanced. This paper describes a project, funded by the Italian National Recovery and Resilience Plan (NRRP), aimed at developing a truly inclusive and sustainable phygital ecosystem, which can combine not only digital with cultural heritage, but also the tangible and intangible components of the latter. AI plays a key role in the project.