Within the archival sector, digitization has long been a strategic initiative to ensure greater availability of historical documents. In recent years, the promotion of guidelines and standards, combined with technological advancements, has established methodologies and best practices and developed tools to facilitate massive digitization projects. However, despite the availability of technological solutions and guidelines, digitization is intended mostly to scan documents and make the outcome images available online. This practice can be problematic in representing the complex fonds structure made of relations, the archival bond that establishes the natural ordering of documents into archival units. This is particularly relevant when the fonds also has a multimedia component, such as an audiovisual component, that is often reproduced on different platforms disconnected from textual documents. This article addresses the challenges linked to digitization in the archival sector and proposes a methodological framework for representing fonds with respect to their native organization. For this purpose, the International Image Interoperability Framework (IIIF) is employed to configure a specific model that respects the archive's hierarchical structure. In particular, this model is configured to maintain the archival bond and enhance the resource's semantic aspect to make the IIIF model semantically interoperable. To demonstrate the adaptability of the framework to the archival domain, in this work, the ''PCI-Unitelefilm'' fonds of the Fondazione Archivio Audiovisivo del Movimento Operaio e Democratico (AAMOD) served as the case study.
翻译:在档案领域,数字化长期以来一直是确保历史文献更广泛可用的战略举措。近年来,指南与标准的推广结合技术进步,已建立起促进大规模数字化项目的方法论、最佳实践与工具。然而,尽管存在技术解决方案与指南,当前数字化实践主要集中于扫描文档并将生成图像在线提供。这种做法在呈现由关系构成的复杂全宗结构——即确立文档在档案单元内自然排序的档案关联——时可能存在问题。当全宗包含多媒体成分(如音像资料)时尤为突出,这些内容常在与文本文档分离的不同平台上呈现。本文探讨档案领域数字化相关的挑战,并提出一种遵循全宗原生组织结构的呈现方法框架。为此,采用国际图像互操作性框架(IIIF)构建尊重档案层级结构的具体模型。该模型特别设计用于保持档案关联,并增强资源的语义层面,从而实现IIIF模型的语义互操作性。为论证该框架在档案领域的适应性,本研究以工人与民主运动视听资料基金会(AAMOD)的“PCI-Unitelefilm”全宗作为案例进行分析。