Virginia Valzano is the general director of the SIBA Coordination (Servizi Informatici Bibliotecari di Ateneo) and of the Telematic Information System for Research and Education of Lecce University. She is also professor at the Faculty for Heritage at the University of Lecce in "Organizzazione informatica delle biblioteche" and in "Teoria e tecniche della catalogazione e classificazione". She is in charge of many national projects in Italy and she acts as a scientific advisor in a number of national and international projects aimed at the preservation, enhanced knowledge, and the assessment of valuable objects of high historical and artistic value including archeological sites. Virginia Valzano has many publications in her field of expertise, i.e., information science and digital technologies as applied to heritage.