The public and private archives of Greek and Italian theaters safeguard an extensive and significant cultural heritage of international relevance. Archives, described as "living villages in memory," continue to thrive and build communities when constantly nourished and narrated in new and interactive ways. The ARCHILIVES project's main objectives include promoting, enhancing, making accessible, and facilitating the use of archives with exceptionally high historical value. These archives will be made interoperable and interconnected through advanced technological systems. This approach aims to "return" a collective heritage of culturally and creatively significant experiences to public consultation. In addition to being appropriately protected and preserved, this heritage must find suitable channels for dissemination and use.
The archives will undergo a digitization process that will contribute to fostering conscious consumption of a "cultural asset" and citizens' perception of participating in the cultural heritage. The digitization process will allow the partner archives to become a global heritage, including regulated inclusion on specialized platforms, museum and tourism circuits, and interactive setups. The goal is to create a digital cultural ecosystem based on a coordinated and interdependent set of infrastructures and platforms for the creation and management of production, collection, preservation, distribution, and consumption of digital cultural resources.
The project will enable a broader use of digital collections from theaters and heritage sites, developing an interdisciplinary pilot program on the construction of the digital narrative of "living villages in memory." This involves the engagement and collaboration of cultural and creative sectors and the information technology sector on an international level.
