The CHeLabS System: sustaining Methodological and Technological Innovation in the Cultural Heritage domain

A territory, with its distinctive cultural patrimony effectively linked to the technological capabilities and grounded in the socio-economic context, constitutes a territorial system seemingly to a large-scale facility. This work illustrates the vision statement of a new model of territorial system recently launched, the Cultural Heritage Open Laboratory System (CHeLabS), aiming at the construction of this favorable context. The cultural asset (CH) is at the centre of this system, that addresses the challenge of a CH-driven development in science and technology. CHeLabS is thought as a scalable and distributed laboratory based on the Open Access and Sharing culture. The implementation of its current phase, consisting in a participated survey, is here described.