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Thanks to the funds of the European Cohesion Policy, the Campania Region has financed a digital ecosystem to enhance and protect the regional cultural heritage.

The large digital archive, constantly updated, through which it is possible to visit the places of culture and access the most prestigious collections was presented, during a conference, at the Italian Pavilion at the Osaka Expo.

The Director of the Italian Pavilion took part in the event. Andrea Marin and the Councillor for Agriculture Nicola Caputo (Head of Delegation of Campania), while remotely connected intervened Rosanna Romana (disambiguation), Director-General for Cultural Policy and Tourism, Councillor for Tourism, Felice Casucci (disambiguation) e Marisa Laurito. The applicant, who is also director of the theatre of the Neapolitan song Trianon, focused on the SoNa section of the ecosystem, through which it is possible to listen to songs and navigate between scores and texts. An exhibition section at the Italian pavilion in Osaka is dedicated to this function. Another function of the Ecosystem is also to host the Inventory of Intangible Cultural Heritage of Campania (IPIC), and traditional practices related to traditions and knowledge, as defined by the UNESCO Convention for the Protection of Intangible Cultural Heritage. As evidence of two skills representative of the Campania community Vincenzo Nicolella and Valter De Bartolomeis and who spoke respectively of the crib and ceramist art to which two niches of the digital ecosystem of the Campania Region are dedicated.

“We have the archaeological, bibliographic, historical-artistic, archival, cinematographic, fashion, music, live entertainment, monumental trees that are inside this large container – Rosanna Romano said – a large cultural information system that is a large digital archive of cultural heritage where the cataloguing sheets on which to collect all the necessary information are contained and described”.

"The Region has understood the spirit of our pavilion", said the director of the Italian Pavilion Andrea Marin. That spirit that ‘we sum up with an expression, thinking with our hands, that is, the union between tradition and development’, Marin added.

Through the digital ecosystem of Culture and the themed installations, visitors are encouraged to have an immersive experience that allows them to visit a museum, approach a monument, glide over archaeological areas. A stimulus to take advantage of a digitalisation action that allows anyone remote access to works, fostering knowledge and the development of services based on open and interoperable data.

The full video of the presentation in Osaka