Articles by Anna Conticello

Law no. 221 of December 17, 2012 amended the Digital Government Code (CAD), and imposed a change in the Public Administration’s approach to transparency towards the citizen. The General Secretariat of MiBACT directs the policy of the Ministry concerning transparency, publication of data and open data and develops new official positions on this subject. Regulatory updates on cultural heritage are indeed necessary in order to consistently regulate the sharing of digital cultural resources and knowledge, and replace current approaches, such as the principle of open-by-default, which are still insufficient to define a suitable legal framework for new forms of copyright/copyleft.

Francesco Gnecchi was one of the most important Roman coin collectors between the XIX and XX Century. His collection, consisting of about 20,000 pieces, was purchased in 1923 without any related document. In 1933 the epistular archive owned by one of the Gnecchi heires was found. The study of the archive allows us to have important information concerning the purchase of pieces and, consequently, their origin. To make possible a systematic analysis, the archive has been stored with a scanner on a computer system and an appropriate retrieval program has been developed.