A VIRTUAL ARCHIVE TO UNDERSTAND AND COMMUNICATE PLACES' COMPLEXITY

Gavardo, a small town located east of Brescia, is dense of natural and anthropic signs: a stratified place with different historical layers. The research aims to identify procedures to provide a progressively open source implementable database to collect, organize, georeference and communicate comparatively the totality of heterogeneous data. Anyone who needs to find and to interface documents, both each other and with the evolutive dynamics of the territory or with its cultural heritage, can easily access. Due to the digital transformation the data set, gathered through a research of material-immaterial sources and by virtual-direct surveys, can be now simultaneously available in single spaces: virtual archives. The most meaningful consequences of these tools are accessibility, dissemination and development of cultural heritage for all: the encyclopedic character that apparently could be assumed is surely overcome by the several connections and the multiple possible cross-references.