Archivi e contaminazioni disciplinari: dai linguaggi ai modelli, dai metodi alle tecniche

The article illustrates the disciplinary contamination - in terms of approaches, methods and techniques - of the project Portale per le fonti della storia della Repubblica italiana, in which the cnr participates through the institutes iliesi, imati, istc. Starting from a reflection on the polysemic notion of “archive” (as a repository, a place of access and a resource-entry), the contribution reflects on how to make research applied to historical archives inclusive, stimulating the interest of different audiences. Designing a transversal system means ref lecting on how different disciplines communicate and represent concepts: it means thinking about effective communication codes between disciplinary domains (different domains, however similar or complementary). Moreover, in order not to create a communication aimed only at domain experts and professionals, it is necessary to use a non-technical language to make the conceptualisation explicit and comprehensible to a wide public.