IL PROGETTO ICHERISH: ESPERIMENTI DI ACCESSO LIBERO AD UN SAPERE ATTENDIBILE, PER LO STUDIO E LA SALVAGUARDIA DEL PATRIMONIO CULTURALE DELL’ASIA MERIDIONALE

Abstract

iCHeriSH (the acronym for “inputting Cultural Heritage and Side Histories into the digital arena: Towards
a collaborative network for South Asia”) is a project funded by the MUR – Ministero dell’Università e della
Ricerca – in the frame of the special program FISR 2020, Special Integrative Funding for Research, FIRST
PHASE.
The project involves two universities, l’Orientale of Naples and Ca’ Foscari of Venice and was conceived
with the aim of creating an open access platform for the advertisement, study, and preservation of cultural
heritage, both material and immaterial, of South Asia. This rich patrimony – often neglected, scarcely
known, and misinterpreted – is at risk of destruction and dispersion, and only a better knowledge can contrast
this risk. iCHeriSH aims at integrating the purposes of scientific research with new working strategies,
even at distance, and at creating a digital space to support teaching and participative actions of crowdsourcing
under the supervisions of universities and research institutes, the only ones that can guarantee the high
scientific profile of contents.