1. UNIONE EUROPEA
FONDO EUROPEO DI SVILUPPO REGIONALE
REGIONE PUGLIA
AREA POLITICHE PER LO SVILUPPO IL LAVORO E
L’INNOVAZIONE
REGIONE PUGLIA
Programma Operativo Regionale FESR 2007-2013
Obiettivo Convergenza
ASSE I - Linea di Intervento 1.4 – Azione 1.4.2
LOREDANA VERARDI- CONSORZIO CETMA
MHiA - Municipal Historical Archive

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• MHiA has as main objective the development of an
archive system of dematerialized documents from the
historical archive of the Municipality of Soleto and
publication of this archive on a web site.
• The same project responds also to a second objective
of making the public data represented by the digital
historical archive Open Data in order to allow their
reuse in initiatives by industrial third parties.
The Project

3. Partners of Project
• Company : PARSEC 3.26
technology partner for innovation in the public sector.
• Research laboratory :CETMA CONSORTIUM
research center in the field of industrial engineering
• End User : MUNICIPALITY OF SOLETO
town in the Province of Lecce included in the list of UNESCO
World Heritage Sites
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4. Approach
• In MHiA project we applied Catalan
methodology of Living Labs to obtain
stakeholders mobilization.
• Innovation Arena of Catalan methodology is
the most suitable method to be used as an
hackathon.
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Innovation Arena on MHiA datasets
use of data in the promotion of Cultural Heritage
and Tourism
Municipality offers a significant documentary
heritage regarding archaeological finds.

5. For the management and archiving
of the municipal documentary
heritage MHiA uses the XDams
Platform (Xml Digital Archives and
Memory Storage) , an open source
platform, specialized in the
treatment and management of
multimedia historical archive.
The archive is developed according
to the semantic web model and
dataset are published with CKAN
platform.
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Architecture

6. MHiA – a data story telling
• In MHiA there is a peculiarity in drawing attention on information
and data that may produce value not through a spatial but through
a temporal element fixed in the history of the community.
• This history is articulated by the activities and documents that the
public administrations produced relevantly to the facts and events
in the life of citizens, commercial activities etc. The Open Data
deriving from the historical archive of a municipality could then
trace the evolution of the community.
• The MHiA project becomes a “data storytelling”: the data of the
historical archives may report relevant fragments of it which may
represent an incentive for economy in terms of territorial marketing
initiatives and tourism and cultural promotion.
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THANKS FOR YOUR
ATTENTION
MHiA - Municipal Historical Archive
loredana.verardi@cetma.it