This project is supported by the follow organizations:
Archivio Centrale dello Stato
Archivio Centrale dello Stato is a body of the Ministry of Cultural Heritage and activities endowed with special autonomy – is the archival depository Institute of the Unified State’s documentary heritage. The institutional tasks of ACS are:
– to preserve and make accessible to researchers the archives deriving from central bodies and offices of Italian State, since its unification (1861);
– to supervise the archives developed by State’s central bodies;
– to deliver educational workshops about archival research and records management.
Istituto per i Beni Culturali – Regione Emilia-Romagna
Istituto Beni Culturali Regione Emilia Romagna IBC was founded in 1974 and it’s the scientific and technical instrument for the Emilia-Romagna regional planning in the field of artistic, cultural and environmental heritage. IBC develops the IT facilities that convey archives, libraries and museums data to institutions and the general public, promotes and coordinates the census and the description of archival, book and museum material, grants the readability of specific DBs on the web and at present IBC’s working on the standards for interoperability through the use of semantic web technologies. All activities are carried out co-operating with national and international public bodies/organisations when necessary and there is a well established and long-running experience with the management of infield European projects, funded and co-funded by the EU. For any futher information please visit http://ibc.regione.emilia-romagna.it/en/the-institute/about-us.
Regesta.exe
Since 1996, regesta.exe provides to any type of cultural institution with services and tools, allowing to create, manage, retrieve and access online documentary, iconographic and audiovisual resources. regesta.exe has a great experience in the development of multimedia, multi-user and multi-archive systems. In fact, technological (i.e. Java standards as platform development, and XML as encoding and storage data) and methodological (i.e. archival description standards) skills and know how has been merged and used to realise xDams (http://www.xdams.org), an open source and web-based platform for document management and delivering.