Every town is singular and has a fascinating history (and many stories) behind it. Undoubtedly, digital transformation helps preserve culture and (material and immaterial) heritage and allows us to expose these local stories and hidden gems to the current and future generations. Still, not all communities have the resources or capabilities to digitize their most precious touristic, natural, or cultural assets. To overcome this worldwide challenge, we have created 'Heritage in...', a low-code methodology and open-source tools, to support local communities in promoting their famous and unknown heritage through open data resources and collaborative tools.

This talk presents a non-commercial methodology and tools developed under the OW2 Quick App Initiative that enables rapid development and release of new light applications (Progressive Web Applications and Quick Apps) to digitize, promote and enrich the local heritage of any town worldwide. The project has been tested with several real-world implementations that make the most of the public (and open-licensed) assets, public knowledge, and open-source tools. In less than one hour, we can implement new appealing use cases. No strong IT skills are required; only a basic understanding of Git and web technologies.