Information systems for digital heritage management and their integration into legal processes

Abstract

Important and relevant for ensuring the protection and preservation of digital heritage is the legal support for the use of information systems for digital heritage management. The purpose of the scientific research is to reveal the practice of using information systems for digital heritage management, determine the regulatory and legal regulation of their activities and highlight proposals for the integration of digital heritage management information systems into legal processes. To achieve the set goal, the following scientific research methods were used: the empirical method provided an opportunity to collect the necessary data to study the essence and content of the concept of digital heritage and its management, the observation method provided an opportunity to process the necessary data to determine the information systems used for digital heritage management, to derive one's own legal position on the integration of digital heritage management information systems into legal processes, a special legal method was applied. Three approaches to defining the concepts of «digital heritage» and «digital cultural heritage» were identified, with an emphasis on the dual understanding of the concept of «digital heritage management». It is demonstrated that the information and telecommunication systems for digital heritage management available in Ukraine are primarily utilized in the context of preserving digital cultural heritage, as well as other types of digital heritage, such as scientific and technical. The legal basis for the use of information systems for digital heritage management is both the provisions of national legislation, which determine the directions of creation, protection and preservation of digital resources that constitute the content of digital heritage, the provisions of international law recognized by Ukraine as mandatory, and the decisions of entities on optimizing the processes of managing digital heritage under their management. It is noted that the concepts of «digital heritage», «digital heritage management», «digital cultural heritage» require regulatory regulation, and the importance of defining in the legislation a list of digital heritage objects subject to protection by the state, territorial communities, individuals and legal entities is also indicated. To improve legislation in the field of digital heritage management, it is proposed to: establish uniform requirements for software and technical complexes and information and telecommunications systems used for the digitization of cultural heritage, since currently each of the areas uses its own software solutions; to legislatively regulate the range of users of information systems used for digital heritage management, their powers regarding the management of digital heritage created as a result of digitization; to legislatively regulate the issue of open access to digital heritage contained in the electronic systems of Ukraine and the EU with the restriction of such access for entities originating from the aggressor state; to regulate the issue of property rights to digital heritage and information and telecommunications systems for digital heritage management created by individuals, legal entities, the state or territorial communities.