site presentation of ARCHIVI - Italian Archives Portal

The ARCHIVI portal

The ARCHIVI website has been operating since 1997 and provides information on the Italian archives administration, acting as a portal providing access to the sites of archives operating on Italian territory. It offers numerous online services.

(see previous versions here).

The central window (news), readable trough an applet or in the html version, is devoted to news and information on legislation, the site itself, and Web initiatives in the Italian archival sector.

Eight first-level items provide access to the site’s main sections:

L'amministrazione archivistica is an orientation node for the access to the pages dedicated to central and local organs of the archives administration. ARCHIVI acts as a provider for the network of archival bodies, which update the database and can set up their own autonomous sites in the central server.

Archivi e Soprintendenze provides access to the database of the archival institutions operating on Italian territory

patrimonio documentario provides access to alphabetically arranged lists of archival fonds held by the state archives and to some of their finding aids, such as the exemplary inventories of the Lucca Archives compiled by Salvatore Bongi in the 19th century.

normativa is a database of legislation on archives and records from 1860 right up to the most recent provisions governing digital records. One characteristic of this database is the fact that it also includes background documentation for many of the legislative measures, including preliminary reports, the various drafts of parliamentary bills, the findings of parliamentary committees, and opinions expressed by the Consiglio di Stato.

il sito offers technical documentation and material regarding the creation of ARCHIVI, as well as educational tools for distance training.

staff provides informations on site credits
statistiche offers an updated report on access and user satisfaction
immagini is the gallery of the pictures used in ARCHIVI.

strumenti, the section dedicated to online finding aids, provides access to:

the General Guide to Italian State Archives,
the complete transcripts of the minutes of all the meetings of the Consiglio superiore degli Archivi, the principal collegial organ associated with the Archives Administration (1874-1976)

biblioteca offers digital publications and research material for the history of archives. The texts can be freely consulted and downloaded. The four sections are:

Atlante Storico degli Archivi italiani offers a diacronic view on the italian archival corpora held by the state archives, from 1861 to 1966
Archivi e beni culturali: studi e proposte includes studies, reports and parliamentary bills that failed to gain approval
Rarità offers classic texts on archival science, paleography and diplomatics that are difficult to find or no longer commercially available
Pareri del Consiglio di Stato contains rulings of italian Council of State on archival matterns, from 1866 on.

This section also provides access to updated information on publications by the state archives.

rinvii is the Italian portal providing access to hundreds of pages of archives-related sites on the worldwide web via search engine or guided search system.

The forum of the ARCHIVI site is designed to foster discussion on issues of interest to archivists and users of archives, and is open to all those who wish to take part or suggest new subjects of discussion.Two forums is currently underway on “archives in the digital era” and "outsourcing in the archival field".