Mapping for Understanding: the ALDiNa Project

The poster examines the initial phase of a survey of Italian Born-digital Literary Archives carried out by the ALDiNA project (Archivi Letterari Digitali Nativi). ALDiNA was initiated within AIUCD (the Italian Association of Digital Humanities) with the support of CLARIN-IT. The aim is to create a network of researchers who study methodologies, tools, and best practices for handling Born-digital Literary Archives, thereby establishing a community of practice dedicated to the investigation of this specific domain. The first action is to map, through a survey, the Italian institutions that preserve born digital literary materials and obsolete media, seeking to understand whether and how practices for the acquisition, preservation, and access to born-digital materials have been implemented. This first phase will allow for an understanding of the maturity and comprehension of the born-digital issue by Italian GLAM’s Institutions, and the development of common strategies for a shared and collective approach to problem-solving. The poster presents the methods employed to develop the survey, the selection of institutions to which it was sent, an analysis of the data obtained, and the perspectives of the project.