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⛓🏛 A Blockchain project applied to cultural heritage, build on Ethereum, for blockchain and distributed ledger technologies course at La Sapienza

DArt

DArt is a decentaliced app built on Ethereum blockchain to build a public and distributed ledger about cultural heritage.

Goal

The goal of the project is to build a public ledger using the blockchain to take trace about the management of each cultural heritage. Contrary to many modern projects, DArt does not propose itself as a digitization of artistic material, but as a tool for managing it in the real world. The goal of DArt is not to impose a digital point of view on art, but to put modern technologies at the service of humanistic and artistic culture for the management of cultural heritage according to what is modern ethic. The intent of DArt is to constitute a support element for actors in the art world to migrate towards the international modern definition of museum:

A museum is a not-for-profit, permanent institution in the service of society that researches, collects, conserves, interprets and exhibits tangible and intangible heritage. Open to the public, accessible and inclusive, museums foster diversity and sustainability. They operate and communicate ethically, professionally and with the participation of communities, offering varied experiences for education, enjoyment, reflection and knowledge sharing - ICOM, August 2022

Smartcontracts

The DApp consists of four different smart contracts:

• DCoin.sol manages the fungible tokens of DArt, the Dcoins and the Patron credits
• Verification.sol has the role to manage the opening of a request of verification and to accept the pending request by the creator
• Patron.sol is the smartcontract dedicated to the crowdfunding
• DArt.sol is the main smartcontract and manage all the minting of NFT in the DApp and their management and trasnfers.

Report

All the project is described in the file Report.pdf. The chapters of the report and their brief description are shown below:

• Background of Blockchain: An excursus of the topics covered during the course
• Context: An analysis of the context of the world of cultural heritage to understand the role and the importance of DArt in this
• Goal: What are the goal set during the development of the project and what are the applications of DArt in the real world.
• Why Blockchain?: Analysis of the decision-making process that led to the choice to use blockchain technology
• Currency Exchange: Formal definition of the token exchange rate idea
• Software Architecture: General Architecture and UML Diagrams (Concept Diagram, Component Diagram, Collaboration Dia- gram, Use Cases and Activity Diagrams)
• Implementation: Description of the development of smartcontracts and interfaces for interacting
• Aesthetic Part: Short presentation of DArt’s logos
• Limitations and Issues: Analysis of the limits of the project with a look at future developments
• Conclusions: Final chapter

Build repository

Truffle directory contains all necessary files to run the project, like javascript, css and html code.

Demos

It's possible to access to some demos on this drive: https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1wUrOleFD8OxoLhBgasw1UJjqbR_2C9MS

Authors

Giordano Dionisi

Michele Spina

Prof. Claudio Di Ciccio (Supervisor)

dart's Issues

Develop crowdfunding interaction between HTML and Solidity code