A single archive, with all the regional documents, will be created in Cagliari in the properties of the Saline in Cagliari, recently transferred by the State. A project announced by the President of the Region, Christian Solinas, on the occasion of the conference "Territory Archives Institutions".
“The archives - he explained - are not just dusty temples of memory as some might think in such a fast society where everything is consumed in the space of a few hours with news and documentary productions. I believe that instead there is the need to protect a continuum from a social and historical point of view which is a great heritage of the collective experience of a people ”.
“In past years I myself have been the draftsman of the rules that have financed the recovery, cataloging, inventorying, digitization of diocesan historical archives - he recalled -, which represent another cultural deposit of certain importance and interest for scholars. Inside the archive of the metropolitan chapter of Cagliari, for example, an immense heritage is preserved that concerns the Sardinian eighteenth century, the Sardinian Vespers with the resistance to the French invasion of 1793 . In the state archive we also have a piece of history of that state evolution that led without interruption from the kingdom erected by Boniface VIII to what became the Kingdom of Sardinia, of Italy and then the Italian Republic in the aftermath of the referendum. with a continuity still to be investigated ".
A theme that does not want to be reserved for an elite of scholars but “a problem of the collective conscience of a people . Through the history contained in the archives it is possible to read which society and in what time it can be contextualized ”. An example is precisely the collaboration with the Court of Cagliari, "the project of archiving the activity of the ceased magistrates, a very penetrating situation in the territory that tells in its practices what Sardinian society was like at that time in those contexts".
As regards resources , "we have already started a policy of attention and collaboration for some time, starting with the diocesan archives, and we have also intervened with an extraordinary contribution that regional law 30 of 2020 has made available for the safety and security of the census of the ceased magistrates. We did it with the archival ordering project of sources of the territorial history of Sardinia, which was focused on digitization and IT infrastructure, thanks to article 6 of regional law 20 of 2019, and we then participated and will do so with ever greater conviction in the relaunch of the Archival Paleography School of the State Archives of Cagliari which since 1877 has represented an important flagship for our city and the whole island ".
Then there is the issue of digitization , “the true frontier that allows the most democratic possible opening of the consultation of all this immense heritage. So far we have preserved and preserved but we have not given that total openness that there must be with respect to a wider consultation. Digitization can offer, on the one hand, the possibility of better preserving the archival heritage because there is no paper consultation and can reduce distances: a series of IT tools allows you to consult the archives of all of Sardinia and of the whole world while staying calmly Baradili, the smallest town in Sardinia, or in the center of the island without having to move ".
And there will also be space for professional training , where the Region “can do its part to create figures capable of supporting the great work of inventorying, cataloging and recovering all this immense heritage. These are particular figures who can pass through professional training projects and through the other great opportunity of technical institutes that could give themselves particular vocations that give new and very important professionalism to implement all these projects ”, concluded the governor.
(Unioneonline / ss)