The Hetor project: a joint effort to co-create Cultural Heritage Open Data in the Campania Region

Open Data are published to encourage their exploitation, but limited technical skills are a crucial barrier. Initiatives to let learners in particular and users in general exploit Open Data are rare in literature, and they mainly focus on the exploitation phase rather than the authoring one. To increase Open Data awareness and move users in the position of open data curators, the HETOR project regularly organise workshops to let participants create, publish, and exploit Open Data. This project started in 2016 and resulted in the co-creation of dozens of high-quality open datasets, publicly available on CKAN, involving hundreds of learners, public administration delegates, and volunteers in associations. This article describes the involved communities within the HETOR project and quantitatively and qualitatively details authored datasets covering any aspect of Cultural Heritage in the Campania Region.