The International Journal of Heritage in the Digital Era (IJHDE) is celebrating it's first issue by offering for free all it's contents. This is a quarterly high quality peer reviewed journal in the area of Digital Cultural Heritage and Digital Libraries. The journal’s main scope is to advance the theory, research, practice and to provide a bridge of communication for academicians, researchers, professionals, scientists and students worldwide working in the different areas and disciplines of Digital Heritage. The IJHDE will focus on interdisciplinary and multi-disciplinary research concerning both innovative Cultural Heritage Informatics and use of technology for the digitalization, representation, documentation, archiving, preservation, and communication of Cultural Heritage knowledge.