Abstract:

The digital arena offers artists and cultural organizations the opportunity to broaden, diversify, and deepen their relationship with new and existing audiences and to increase their engagement with the digital cultural heritage. In this context, digital cultural ecosystems virtually assemble various digital collections, archives, virtual museums, digital libraries, and cultural heritage sites to facilitate the access to their resources, bringing cultural content to new audiences in novel ways. They appears to respond to the growing willingness to share the wealth of cultural resources and continuous research and study of cultural treasures by new technological tools. This paper presents the activities for development of approaches for effective use and continuing development of digital cultural ecosystems for learning purposes following the grand vision, good practices and achievements of the Digital Research Infrastructure for the Arts and Humanities (DARIAH), the biggest European Infrastructure connecting people, information, tools, and methodologies for investigating, exploring, and supporting work across the broad spectrum of the digital humanities. The paper also presents key national priorities of Bulgaria in terms of harmonizing research work with the DARIAH vision following the society desire for better study of humanities in the contemporary digital world.

Keywords:

Digital Cultural Ecosystem, Efficient Usage and Continuing Development, DARIAH.