The RESTORE project: a final review

This paper provides a complete assessment of the research activities and the results achieved by the RESTORE project (smaRt accESs TO digital heRitage and mEmory), started in June 2020 and recently ended. The project consortium, coordinated by the Istituto Opera del Vocabolario Italiano - National Research Council of Italy (OVI-CNR), included the State Archives and the Museum of Palazzo Pretorio in Prato, the Archival and Bibliographic Superintendency of Tuscany as well as the SPACE SpA software company. The project - cofinanced by the Region of Tuscany - had as its main purpose the recovery, integration and accessibility of data and digital objects produced in the last twenty years by its partners, in order to build a knowledge base gathering information on the history of the city and of its institutions, on the development of its economic and entrepreneurial system, and on the role of women in the development of a welfare state and network, starting from the figure of the merchant Francesco di Marco Datini, his family and his entourage. Different aspects of the RESTORE project, including data mapping and modelling, have already been presented in previous IRCDL editions; this paper will focus on the latest updates related to the RESTORE platform final release, focusing on the services offered to support research in heritage science and humanities.