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Venice and Vienna, iconographic collections of sketches, draw<strong>in</strong>gs and maps of Crete and other Greek<br />

territories preserved <strong>in</strong> the Marciana Library will be virtually l<strong>in</strong>ked <strong>in</strong> the VENIVA database.<br />

From an applicative perspective, the s<strong>in</strong>gle historical archives and libraries, once they have been assembled and<br />

made accessible as a whole, will constitute a s<strong>in</strong>gle virtual archive available on the World-Wide Web for the<br />

several connected users. The prototype will work as an experimental platform for a new management system of<br />

<strong>in</strong>novative services for libraries and archives that wish to <strong>in</strong>crease the value of cultural heritage by means of<br />

remote access.<br />

At the same time, the VENIVA virtual archive will also <strong>in</strong>clude and create an on-l<strong>in</strong>e editorial collection of<br />

orig<strong>in</strong>al works written by historians that have done research studies on selected primary documents. On this<br />

specific subject you can f<strong>in</strong>d the 1st title [Viggiano A., 1996] of this collection at: http://veniva.tol.it.<br />

In general the project aims at build<strong>in</strong>g an <strong>in</strong><strong>format</strong>ion network of heterogeneous contents rang<strong>in</strong>g from primary<br />

sources to critical and historical analyses of the sources themselves. Scholars will contribute to the VENIVA<br />

collection with journal articles, conference proceed<strong>in</strong>gs, graduation or PhD dissertations.<br />

The VENIVA Virtual Archive's Services and Ma<strong>in</strong> Work Environments<br />

We imag<strong>in</strong>e the VENIVA pilot application as an on-l<strong>in</strong>e virtual archive that presents a database of<br />

cartographic materials and a collection of essays written on Venetian history. At the same time, VENIVA can<br />

also be def<strong>in</strong>ed as an on-l<strong>in</strong>e workbench for users connected to Internet who wish to work with the documents<br />

preserved <strong>in</strong> this virtual archive.<br />

The nature of the VENIVA application is therefore structured <strong>in</strong>to two separated levels which are however<br />

strongly <strong>in</strong>terconnected. On the one hand, we have an open environment for users whose ma<strong>in</strong> purposes are<br />

brows<strong>in</strong>g and read<strong>in</strong>g as well as do<strong>in</strong>g authorial work on the materials available on the VENIVA virtual<br />

archive. On the other, we have the publisher's private environment.<br />

The services, the VENIVA virtual archive will offer will deal with the access to archival and bibliographical<br />

sources and with document delivery. In addition to this, there will be special services, such as virtual reality<br />

reconstructions of historical sett<strong>in</strong>gs, guided tours and the bookstore where one can purchase the VENIVA<br />

publications.<br />

The open environment<br />

Users will have access to the VENIVA platform through Internet. In particular, the virtual archive will appear<br />

to them as an usual WWW page. The potentialities that it offers, however, will be different from what is<br />

nowadays available on the Web. The exploitation of these potentialities depends on the users' needs and<br />

choices. Users, <strong>in</strong> fact, will either behave as common readers or ask for authorial work to be accomplished.<br />

- The reader environment. Readers of the VENIVA materials can select among three ma<strong>in</strong> areas to view: the<br />

editorial collection, the primary archival documents and the bibliographic materials.<br />

The reader can either browse the series of publications related to Venetian history or pose a search query and<br />

retrieve those items that most <strong>in</strong>terest him. Readers can view the descriptive cards of the selected essays, view<br />

and read them, follow the l<strong>in</strong>ks that connect the author's elaboration to the primary sources he refers to.<br />

Readers will view descriptive cards of the cartographic materials and, if available, can have access to their<br />

digitised copy. Also, they can pose search queries accord<strong>in</strong>g to a selected parameter (for <strong>in</strong>stance, one of the<br />

voices of the descriptive card, or through a full text retrieval based on keywords of the reader's choice).

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