Description
The Public History portal is a digital platform designed to make the historical and cultural heritage of companies and cultural institutions accessible, sharing their stories with the public in an accessible, engaging, and interactive way.
These portals help disseminate history beyond traditional academic environments and enable engagement with a broader audience of stakeholders, offering interpretations, narratives, and contextualizations that are more widely accessible.
Features
- Continuous online access to digitized historical and cultural materials
- Consultation of digital archives containing documents, images, and multimedia materials
- Advanced search and intuitive content navigation
- User engagement by encouraging proposals of new content
- Scientific moderation of contributions to ensure quality, reliability, and consistency of information
Architecture and Technologies
Public History portals are based on advanced technological infrastructures that are interoperable and compliant with the main protocols for cultural heritage access:
- Open-source platforms for the management and storage of digital collections (xDams)
- Adoption of national and international descriptive standards (MAG, EAD, MODS)
- Integration of multimedia narratives and crowdsourcing tools
Advantages
- Portal accessibility: anyone can explore history anytime and from anywhere
- Community engagement: the public becomes an active part in building the historical narrative
- Greater awareness of history as a driver for cultural and corporate development
- Quality and reliability of content
Use Cases
- Foundations and cultural institutions
- Corporate historical archives
- Corporate museums
- Participatory Public History projects
- Mass digitization projects
- Initiatives for enhancement and public access to heritage