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The Challenge of Obsolescence of Digital Archives in Cultural Heritage. A Case Study Sebastiana Cucurullo Simonetta Montemagni Rubino Saccoccio Eva Sassolini Cucurullo, Sebastiana Montemagni, Simonetta Saccoccio, Rubino Sassolini, Eva Humanities, Technological innovation, Relational databases, Linguistics, Cultural differences, Usability, Interoperability, Representation Standards, dialectal resources, digital obsolescence, FAIR data, heritage preservation This paper addresses the challenges of format, font, and software obsolescence, with a particular emphasis on cultural heritage archives. While technological impermanence is intrinsic to the digital domain, it poses serious risks to the accessibility and long-term preservation of humanities data. Focusing on intangible cultural heritage—specifically, dialect data—we explore both the problems and opportunities associated with the FAIRification of legacy resources. A case study of the Atlante Lessicale Toscano (ALT), a dialectal lexical atlas of Tuscany originally published as a digital archive in 2000, illustrates how painstakingly collected linguistic data can be transformed into sustainable, interoperable formats that ensure long-term usability and scholarly value. 2025 info:eu-repo/semantics/conferenceObject https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14243/571181 10.1109/CiSt65886.2025.11224142 info:eu-repo/semantics/altIdentifier/isbn/979-8-3315-4384-6 https://xplorestaging.ieee.org/document/11224142 eng ispartofbook:Proceedings of the IEEE 8th Congress on Information Science and Technology (CiSt) 2025 2025 IEEE 8th Congress on Information Science and Technology (CiSt) firstpage:506 lastpage:512 numberofpages:7 ELETTRONICO IEEE country:MAR