Objective
The history of 1968 in Europe is the history of a defining event, a breakthrough in costume and culture whose consequences can be traced down to our very present. Though world-wide as a phenomenon, the "revolution" of the year 1968 has mainly impacted the European theatre, from its offspring in France to the deep cultural, social and economic consequences in the other national scenarios. In a complex blend of events and cultures, overriding national boundaries and long-time habits, a key milestone towards the modernisation of the Western societies was burnt in a critically short span of time, accompanied by the production of an incredible wealth of emotion, experience, chronicles, books, dramatic pieces, poems, songs, movies, video footage and generally speaking both documentary and in-depth analysis data and media. Aim of the Media68 project is the creation of a multilingual information resource on the political, social and cultural events of the year 1968, and on the lasting impact of that chain of events on the history of Europe. The information service, mainly aimed at the collection and management of this heritage of media in digital form as a support to historical research and documentation, will be organised as an open information system with an on-line service accessible through Internet technology, and periodically issued to users in the form of thermatic multi-lingual CD-ROM volumes.
The creation of the information service will foster the co-operation of research centres in several European countries, and will include and make available through convenient interactive access methods a wealth of documents, images, biographies, chronologies, historical reconstruction pictures, side by side with a comprehensive account of the most relevant cultural documentation (in music, theatre, cinema, visual arts) of that period. Access keys will be provided at several levels, in order to tailor the service for both the work of the historian and agreeable visitation of the general public. Thematic and chronological access methods will provide the base tools for the query of data, with several more sophisticated navigation metaphors available for the analysis of details. Besides making an extraordinary heritage of data available in state-of-the art digital multimedia format, the project is also meant to provide a methodological model for the application of multimedia technology to the field of contemporary storiography. The service, in both the on-line implementation, will be released in five major European languages (English, French, German and Spanish), with bibliographic data mostly encompassing the italian, French and German scenarios.
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00152 Roma
Italy