The “Verbo-Visual Virtual” Platform for Digitizing and Navigating Cultural Heritage Collections

Linked collections and archives in the field of contemporary art are usually less common than in other fields of the humanities such as in historical and literary research. The “Verbo-Visual Virtual” (Vvv) project aims at developing a new web portal which unifies the Verbo-Visual collections of two museums, namely the “Archivio Nuova Scrittura” (Ans) owned in part by the Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art of Trento and Rovereto (Mart) and in part by the Museum for Modern and Contemporary Art of Bolzano (Museion). Through the Vvv web portal, it will be possible for users to search for pieces of art and the corresponding information records now stored in two different museums and accessible using two different catalogues. It will also be possible to discover new information about the collection by performing complex queries over the underlying database and the links manually set among the records.