Not Just Paper: Enhancement of Archive Cultural Heritage

Oral archives and digital technologies have gone hand-in-hand for avery long time. Both sides benefit from this interdisciplinary junction: technologyenhances the preservation and diffusion of oral materials, while exploiting themto develop cutting-edge tools for their treatment. This chapter deals with anItalian instantiation of this mutual relationship: the Archivio Vi.Vo. project.Offering innovative solutions concerning metadata, audio restoration,description, and access, Archivio Vi.Vo. aims to build an online platform to hostthe oral archives from Tuscany. The project is powered by CLARIN-IT, whichguarantees its compliance with standards and offers resources for data accessand discoverability. Archivio Vi.Vo. has not been built from scratch: it is insteada cross-fertilization of previous initiatives and research projects (e.g., the Gra.foproject). Moreover, the chapter presents the related, contemporary work of amultidisciplinary group striving to synthesize a Vademecum for futuregenerations of oral archive researchers. Lastly, a brief list of tentative ideas forfuture developments of the Archivio Vi.Vo. platform will be presented.