In recent decades the digitalisation of analogue documents has facilitated remote access to collections while helping preserve archival files. However, as James M. O’Toole pointed out, while ‘preserving the documents [is] certainly worthwhile’ it is not ‘as important as preserving the information’.1 To critically transform unique archival records into information understandable to a wider audience (including not only research insiders) in the first place and, secondarily, use the information in order to develop historically accurate architectural narratives are two of the most significant goals of the Omega Project: a multidisciplinary and collaborative endeavour, jointly pursued by the Department of the Arts of the University of Bologna and the Centro Studi e Archivio della Comunicazione (CSAC) of the University of Parma.

Chiara Monterumisi, Ines Tolic (2022). The Omega Project: Developing Architectural Narratives for the Age of Mass Digitalisation. Rotterdam : TU Delft and Het Nieuwe Instituut.

The Omega Project: Developing Architectural Narratives for the Age of Mass Digitalisation

Chiara Monterumisi
;
Ines Tolic
2022

Abstract

In recent decades the digitalisation of analogue documents has facilitated remote access to collections while helping preserve archival files. However, as James M. O’Toole pointed out, while ‘preserving the documents [is] certainly worthwhile’ it is not ‘as important as preserving the information’.1 To critically transform unique archival records into information understandable to a wider audience (including not only research insiders) in the first place and, secondarily, use the information in order to develop historically accurate architectural narratives are two of the most significant goals of the Omega Project: a multidisciplinary and collaborative endeavour, jointly pursued by the Department of the Arts of the University of Bologna and the Centro Studi e Archivio della Comunicazione (CSAC) of the University of Parma.
2022
Building Data: Architecture, Memory, and New Imaginaries
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Chiara Monterumisi, Ines Tolic (2022). The Omega Project: Developing Architectural Narratives for the Age of Mass Digitalisation. Rotterdam : TU Delft and Het Nieuwe Instituut.
Chiara Monterumisi; Ines Tolic
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