التراث الثقافي: بين ضرورات الرقمنة وغياب التشريع

The Algerian legislator was interested in the national cultural heritage, and his interest was manifested in the issuance of Law No.98-04 on the protection of Cultural Heritage in 1998, which included general rules that define the legal framework for valuing and preserving cultural heritage. Howerver, with the technological development, the so-called digitization of cultural heritage appeared, which resulted in Creating a legislative vacuum in the development of digital protection, as  the general  rules of this law have become unable to keep pace with the rapid changes in information technologies, and their transition from the traditional field to the digital field, which calls the legislator to the need to control and review the cultural heritage protection law, and to develop digital mechanisms to enhance protection for hertage Cultural and electronic documentation, and preservation   from extinction and demise.

Keywords: Cultural Heritage; Digitization; Law No.98-04; Cultural property; Digital protetion.