Internet and Cultural Heritage Communication

The peculiarity of the world wide web (WWW) seems to be a growing coalescence of and almost non restricted accessibility to a diversity of data. For the management of cultural heritage data these characteristics may provide a powerful and “multi-located ” tool and data container, assuming a possibility of structuring, searching and selecting the content. Thus, in addition to local libraries and archives, the world wide web could enable access to all kinds of cultural elements, if these or their descriptions are available in a digital form. The importance of an access to worldwide cultural heritage objects lies, among other important things, in creating awareness of one´s own culture and the understanding of others. It is this topic of identity and understanding, which could mainly be supported by the global access via the WWW