Colecciones digitales patrimoniales: curaduría digital, difusión y uso social del patrimonio en internet

The objective of this article is to present the concepts, methodologies, practices, results and challenges of the Digital Collections Program of Chiles’s Directorate of Libraries, Archives and Museums (DIBAM), set up in 2011 with the purpose of facilitating the dissemination and social use of cultural heritage, the diversification of the contents supply and the value enhancement strategy of the institutional collections through Internet. To achieve this objective, the authors first define and discuss the main concepts of the project (digital heritage,
knowledge nodes and digital reading, image and curatorship), and then analyse the outcomes and emerging challenges of the project in the context of global changes in the fields of digital culture, information and communication technologies and institutional digital heritage policies.