Entità in relazione: policies, soluzioni tecnologiche e modelli lessicali per un (eco)sistema informativo integrato

Entities in relationship: policies, technological solutions and lexical models for an integrated information (eco)system - The research activity presented here was carried out within the project Portale delle fonti per la storia della Repubblica italiana, an initiative characterized by important theoretical and methodological implications, but also by notable civil ones. Through the collaboration between three institutes of the italian National Research Council, several public bodies and twelve private cultural institutes belonging to the Associazione delle istituzioni di cultura italiane - AICI, an attempt was made to develop a conceptual and technological system capable of integrating heterogeneous resources, both in the description methods and in the formats and technologies for data transmission and sharing. This contribution will focus on the solutions identified to manage this variety, in particular in the process of acquiring datasets from private cultural institutions, such as the design and development of a flexible ETL pipeline, capable of bringing the variety of input data back to the logical model of the database, as well as the development of a controlled vocabulary of the archival description levels.