Knowledge and Innovation in the Field of Cultural Heritage

Innovation is strongly linked to the knowledge system, particularly in the fields of research and cultural heritage where varied skills should be managed and coordinated. The acceleration of research processes, which has been recorded over the last few years, highlights the need for management systems that allow organizing and controlling complex situations by planning actions for the conservation, enhancement and promotion of cultural heritage. Advanced methods should be used to acquire knowledge, which occurs through processes of progressive working out and in relation to the capacity of managing and controlling the various components of the monuments to preserve. Knowledge implies a specialized learning process, i.e. the use of skills to understand phenomena and situations and to suggest innovative solutions to specific problems by proposing management and control procedures that may be replicated and easily applied. Therefore, there is a clear need for defining methodological procedures that enable to acquire and outline the knowledge framework of a monument as a necessary condition to identify its state of conservation and to detect the most suitable actions to take based on systematically collected information. Within this process, special digital case sheets may be used for the examined assets in order not only to store information and further data, which may be collected over time, but also to specifically process them combining sciences, history and humanities.