The project “Digitization and Memory” promoted by the Casa della Memoria of Urbisaglia in collaboration with the University of Camerino and the State Archives of Macerata, has received a new and significant boost thanks to the signing of an agreement with the Historical Institute of the Resistance and the Contemporary Age of Macerata.
“Digitization and Memory” is a multi-year project that involves the digitalization, metadating and online accessibility of documents relating to the internment camps in the province of Macerata and to Italian and foreign internees in the years from 1940 to 1943, preserved at the State Archives of Macerata. The Fund contains a total of approximately 43,000 documents.
In line with what is indicated by the Ministry of Culture, this project includes both scanning and metadata of the acquired digital resources, to ensure that they are aligned with the most up-to-date national and international standards. Finally, the acquired data, in agreement with the State Archives of Macerata, will become part of the Digital Library of the Ministry of Culture, ensuring that they will always be accessible to all interested parties.
The agreement between the Casa della Memoria of Urbisaglia and ISREC, which commits the parties to collaborate on projects of mutual interest, had an immediate application with the involvement of Silvia Biancucci, a student intern at the University of Macerata, in the project “Digitization and Memory”.
The student received training from Dr. Francesco Casoni on the use of the BooKeeper software, created by the startup and spin-off Unicam Knoway Systems srl, and began her work on digitization and metadata at the State Archives of Macerata, welcomed by the director Dr. Anna Ciuti and assisted by archivists Elisabetta Graziosi and Marco Basili.
This experience will allow her to acquire a rigorous methodological approach and an understanding of digital archival procedures, in particular with regard to the manipulation of delicate historical documents, the use of high-resolution photographic equipment and the setting of technical parameters to ensure maximum fidelity and quality of the digital image.
It is therefore a multidisciplinary process that requires skills in conservation, IT, archiving and history: the partnership between the State Archives of Macerata, ISREC and the Casa della memoria di Urbisaglia is indeed a virtuous example of how collaboration between institutions can generate concrete benefits for historical research, the dissemination of knowledge and also for the education of students.
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