Knowledge Sharing for Cultural Heritage 2.0: Prosumers in a Digital Agora

Abstract

The word “prosumer†indicates the mixture of the terms “producer†and “consumer†: even if the term is almost recent, prosumers were already present in the historical period of ancient Greece and Magna GrA¦cia (between the VII century b.C. and the I century A.D.). In this view, the platform Cultural Heritage 2.0 can be considered a digital “agora†: like the Greek square-marketplace, where there was exchange of goods and ideas, the system allows the gathering of an extensive amount of digital data and an interesting exchange of culture. The aim of this paper is to present Cultural Heritage 2.0, that offers the opportunity to mix heterogeneous contents in unusual amalgams, according to the imagination and design of the users-prosumers in the Web community.