WP2, ESTABLISHING THE CONCEPTUAL FRAMEWORK.
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As CH institutions are rethinking and remarking themselves, shifting from traditional to renewed practices of CH representation and promotion using new technologies and digital facilities, new meanings associated with terms such as “preservation”, “digital library”, “Virtual Performance” emerge every day.

A variety of definitions of these CH-related concepts are shared and used interchangeably, making difficult the task of research and recognition.

In addition, the advent of digital technologies has brought new creative practices and transformed the traditional intellectual property related to CH in the digital era.

WP2 represents the foundation of RICHES research, with 3 basic objectives:

​Objective 1: establishing a framework of basic definitions which will define the RICHES fields of research during the first 3 month of the project.
Definitions such as “preservation”, “digital library”, “Virtual Performance” will be defined jointly through to the partners’ contributions.
The final result of this phase 1 will be presented and discussed at a first Workshop to be held in Barcelona on May 2014, where the project’s agreement on a Taxonomy of Terms and Definitions will be established.

​Objective 2: establishing and nurturing a sustainable Network of Common Interest consisting of experts and researchers in the relevant fields.
The Network, to be set up during this first phase of the project, will share experience, knowledge and promote standards and guidelines in order to enrich debate throughout RICHES project and its groups, continuing the task after the project finishes.

​Objective 3: developing a framework of understanding of copyright and Intellectual Property Rights laws as they relate to CH practice in the digital age.
As the processes of creation of CH are becoming more and more collaborative, existing copyright laws developed in the analogue era are causing challenges in the era of the digital.
This task will explore and identify new practices in CH creation and consumption, research and develop new visions for copyright and Intellectual Property issues and elaborate new exploitation strategies.

CONTACTS FOR WP2

​Marc Aguilar, marc.aguilar@i2cat.net

TASK 2.1, CH PROJECT/RICHES DEFINITIONS

​Marc Aguilar, marc.aguilar@i2cat.net

TASK 2.2, NETWORK OF COMMON INTEREST

​Antonella Fresa, fresa@promoter.it

TASK 2.3, THE MOVE FROM ANALOGUE TO DIGITAL AND NEW FORMS OF IP

​Charlotte Waelde, c.e.waelde@exeter.ac.uk