Not Just Paper: Enhancement of Archive Cultural Heritage

Evaluation of the Archivio Vi.Vo Architecture: A Case Study on the Reuse of Legacy Data for Linguistic Purposes

“…The preservation process of a historical archive in the Archivio Vi.Vo. architecture begins with the upload of the digitized archival data in the storage server, followed by the creation of preservation copies within the platform (Calamai et al, 2022). Although the procedure for including archives in Archivio Vi.Vo.…”

“…does not entail the deletion of the file from the storage server. Between the preservation copies creation and the audio files conversion into the high quality compressed FLAC format, the architecture will soon provide access to the restoration interface (Calamai et al, 2022). The Archivio Vi.Vo.…”

“…This step is necessary to make the contents of the archive searchable and reusable. As explained in (Calamai et al, 2022) selecting the clips from audio file is needed because multiple communication events (such as conferences, interviews, concerts etc.) might have been recorded on a single carrier.…”

“…In this regard, the Italian node CLARIN-IT recently developed the innovative Archivio Vi.Vo. architecture (Calamai et al, 2022) for the preservation, access, dissemination and reuse of historical audio archives. The architecture was conceived as a model for safeguarding the digitized content of analog carriers (preservation copies) and to make use of their recorded material (archival units).…”

“…The first Archivio Vi.Vo. case study was conducted on the Caterina Bueno archive characterized by a complex archival history and containing highly heterogeneous audio material such as ethnomusicological data (Calamai et al, 2022). The idea is now to validate the platform for hosting different types of archives, such as oral history archives, and see whether an archive collected within another field of study can still fit inside Archivio Vi.Vo.…”