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La grande trama. Il patrimonio culturale nell'era digitale
Over sixty years of technology and Italian cultural heritage, from 1960s computing to the Ecomic digital ecosystem, threaded together by a knowledge graph. Ministry of Culture show at Palazzo Massimo.
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Preview: written before the show opened
Every item you meet along the route becomes a dot, and every link from it a line to a work, a person, a place or an event. The organisers say you leave with a map of your own discoveries. Anyone who has opened Wikipedia for one emperor and surfaced an hour later on Etruscan plumbing knows the method.
The lines come from the Ministry of Culture's knowledge graph, which joins records from art, audiovisual, archive, library and archaeology collections. Around it the show runs from Italy's first computing experiments in the 1960s to Ecomic, the ministry's digital ecosystem, and 23 products built with it alongside 23 cultural institutions: accessible catalogues, games, immersive stories, and tools for study and restoration.
The ministry made the show to present what its PNRR recovery-fund money produced, so read it as a showcase by the people who did the work. Entry is included in the €15 Palazzo Massimo ticket, free on Sunday 6 December, and the museum opens specially on Monday 7 December.
Look for
The Grafo della conoscenza
The knowledge graph that runs through the route turns each work, person, place and event into a node, so your links build up into a personal map by the exit.
The 23 Ecomic products
Digital products made with 23 Italian cultural institutions: accessible catalogues, games, immersive stories, and tools for studying and restoring works.
Good for
- Locals Who've Seen It All
- Nerding Out
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- La grande trama. Il patrimonio culturale nell'era digitaleCourtesy of National Roman Museum - Palazzo Massimo
- Hank Willis Thomas & Man Ray: Tomorrow I shall contradict myselfPhoto: Giorgio Benni
- Contiamo l'Italia, contiamo per il futuroCourtesy of Palazzo delle Esposizioni
- Richard Avedon. In the American West. 1979-1984Courtesy of Palazzo delle Esposizioni
- National Roman Museum - Palazzo MassimoRicardalovesmonuments, Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 4.0
- Galleria Continua Romarandreu, via Wikimedia Commons, CC BY 3.0
- Palazzo Barberini - Gallerie Nazionali di Arte AnticaPubblicUsername / Wikimedia Commons, CC BY 4.0
- Palazzo delle EsposizioniSzilas, via Wikimedia Commons, CC0