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Regesta.exe was founded in 1996 by of a team involved in two projects concerning the use of innovative technologies for multimedia archives: the historical archives of IRI (Industrial Rebuilding Institute) and the photograph and audiovisual archives of LUCE Institute. In 2008 regesta.exe merged into a newly constituted company which has acquired it’s brands and name.
From 1996 on, regesta.exe provides any type of institution with services and tools, allowing to create, manage, retrieve and access online their the documentary, iconographic and audiovisual resources, and every culture heritage information in general. In addition to this, regesta.exe collaborates with the Italian Universities of Teramo, Naples and Urbino in field training projects and methodological issues related with the ITC use on the archival domain. Interoperability, portability, modularity, web-based technologies: these are the standards and guidelines that were followed in in the “Digital Archives & Memory Storage” project, developed between 2002 and 2004 by Regesta in collaboration with the Archivio di Stato di Napoli, within the framework of the Ten Telecom European programme. The web-based xDams platform originates from this experience.
The main delivered services are:
Historical, Iconographic and Audiovisual Archives Processing:

  • planning and realisation of arrangement and cataloguing procedures
  • planning and realisation of access and management systems
  • data import from different database systems
  • digital reproduction, uploading and attachment of the resources to the reference information

 

ITC solutions:

  • planning and realisation of back-office and front-office online (Internet or Intranet) procedures for databases management
  • developing of information retrieval applications
  • planning and realisation of management and access control procedures of Reading Rooms
  • planning, realisation and hosting of web sites and data

 

Consulting activities:

  • training projects and courses
  • onsite or online and remote assistance


regesta.exe is composed by three main teams work:
a technical staff of 10 professionals, specialised on ITC applications and digital communication and delivering; a research and training staff of 4 professionals, having to guarantee the quality of all regesta.exe applications, by monitoring the most recent and strengthened ITC solutions for content management and delivering. They also are the responsible of the training tools (courses, documents, helpdesk) ensuring the proper use of all the applications procedures;
a teamwork of 15 professionals responsible of the content quality and management.

regesta.exe has a great experience in the development of multimedia, multi-user and multi-archive ?systems. In fact, the technological (i.e. the standards Java as platform development and XML as data ?encoding and storage) and methodological (archival description standards) skills and know how has ?been merged and used to realise a web-based platform for document management and delivering, ?xDams. ?At now, several projects are carried out or in progress for the following users: ?
Public administrations:
Chamber of deputies Historical Archives (http://archivio.camera.it)
State Archives of Bologna (http://www.archiviodistatobologna.it), Naples (http://www.archiviodistatonapoli.it), Prato (http://datini.archiviodistato.prato.it), Lucca and Mantua
Istituto per i Beni artistici, culturali ed ambientali (IBC) of Emilia-Romagna Region (http://archivi.ibc.regione.emilia-romagna.it)
Veneto Region (photographical archives)
Rome Municipality – Historical Archives
Ministry of Cultural Heritage and Activities -  Soprintendenza speciale per i Beni Archeologici di Roma: Antonio Cederna Historical Archive (http://www.archiviocederna.it)
Ministry of Cultural Heritage and Activities -  Istituto centrale per il restauro e la conservazione del patrimonio archivistico e librario (http://www.icpal.beniculturali.it)

Cultural institutions:
LUCE Institute (http://www.archivioluce.com; http://aamod.archivioluce.com; http://quilici.archivioluce.com; http://albania.archivioluce.com; http://camera.archivioluce.com; http://casadelcinema.archivioluce.com)
National Academy of Santa Cecilia (http://www.santacecilia.it; http://bibliomediateca.santacecilia.it; http://museo.santacecilia.it)
National Academy of San Luca (http://www.accademiasanluca.it)
Feltrinelli Foundation (http://www.fondazionefeltrinelli.it; www.progettorisorgimento.it)
Archivio audiovisivo del Movimento operaio e democratico (http://www.fotofamilia.it)
Pontifical Commission for Sacred Archeology Historical and Photographic  

Archives - Private enterprises:
IRI (Industrial Rebuilding Institute) Historical Archives
ENEL - Italian Electricity Company (http://www.enelikon.it)
high-fashion clothing company Ermenegildo Zegna

links:

www.regesta.com

www.noteinarchivio.it
 

Good Practices

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AMAT DEUS promotes the world of volunteering in a creative way, revealing its importance in social life. Born as a movie project, wher the starting plot is uploaded and changed during works by partecipants. Disabled, elederly people, artists, technician and known characters and musicians, contributed to bring in the story an original contribute to build a quality product and creative cooperation. ...Read all the good practice"AMAT DEUS"  

Agenda

Rome, March 24, 2011 Final Conference of the DSE project "Disability and Social Exclusion. Best Practices for Social Inclusion"   The final conference of the DSE (Disability and Social Exclusion) project will be held in Rome on...
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Project

To overcome prejudices and stereotypes, to enhance experiences and best practices, to spread information through concrete initiatives on the territory in order to allow for a full participation of the people with disabilities. This is the goal of the project “Disability and Social Exclusion” (DSE) co-financed by the European Commission. Through territorial and communication plans, the programme aims at carrying out a real cultural change for the overcoming of discriminatory behaviours towards people with disabilities, that are still widespread in our country.

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