Abstract
Founded in 2014 as a result of a project co-funded by the European Commission, EFHA - European Fashion Heritage Association is an international network of fashion GLAMs. It also serves as the official fashion thematic aggregator for the European cultural heritage digital platform Europeana. The Association gathers more than 50 fashion archives and cultural organisations, public and private, across 15 European countries. Its core mission is to provide open access to its partners’ collections, which include historical garments and accessories, contemporary fashion, catwalk photography, patterns, drawings, sketches, magazines, and catalogues. EFHA is active in the wider field of European digital cultural heritage, focusing on open access, co-creation, the reuse of resources, and the valorisation of both tangible and intangible fashion heritage. The Association is also involved in a number of European collaborative projects that explore participation, co-creation, and innovative approaches to business modelling within the cultural heritage sector. This paper critically examines the Association’s strategies and projects, assessing how they align with and advance its mission of inspiring and facilitating the aggregation, connection, activation, and communication of European fashion heritages. Key initiatives include the expansion of its digital repository, the dissemination of best practices in digitisation, curation, and archiving, the promotion of fashion research through international conferences, and the organisation of workshops on metadata enrichment and data quality. Through its efforts and the active participation of the stakeholders and their communities, EFHA functions as an inclusive ecosystem for the support, preservation, and enhancement of diverse and fashion repositories, resources, and heritages.
Presenters
Carolina Francesca Maria DavalliStudent, PhD Candidate, Università degli Studi della Campania "Luigi Vanvitelli", Caserta, Italy
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Paper Presentation in a Themed Session
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KEYWORDS
Digital Cultural Heritage, Fashion Museum, Fashion Archive, Fashion Resources
