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The Pirelli Historical Archives: Cultural Heritage at the Service of the People, Now Also in Digital Form

Since its inception, the Pirelli Foundation has been working to catalogue and digitise the Group’s historical archives, which consist of over three kilometres of documents about the history of the organisation’s activities. This extraordinary wealth of documents was declared in 1972 to be of significant historical interest by Italy’s Ministry of Cultural Heritage and Tourism.

In 2014, in order to catalogue and inventory the historical archives, the Foundation adopted the open-source xDams platform, which provides for the integrated processing, management, and access of multimedia archives. This project called for the creation of both a digital library and a website, which features photos, sketches and drawings, corporate documents, and video content. Visitors to the site can also browse through the pages of the Pirelli magazine, which was published from 1948 to 1972, promoting one of the nation’s most highly evolved forums of cultural debate for over two decades.

The entire catalogue is available in both English and Italian and represents an example of excellence in online corporate archives.

The publication of this content, which is periodically updated through ongoing efforts to catalogue and digitise the Historical Archives, meets one of the Foundation’s primary objectives, which is that of promoting the organisation’s history and culture by ensuring the greatest access possible to this rich cultural heritage.

Since its inception, the Pirelli Foundation has been working to catalogue and digitise the Group’s historical archives, which consist of over three kilometres of documents about the history of the organisation’s activities. This extraordinary wealth of documents was declared in 1972 to be of significant historical interest by Italy’s Ministry of Cultural Heritage and Tourism.

In 2014, in order to catalogue and inventory the historical archives, the Foundation adopted the open-source xDams platform, which provides for the integrated processing, management, and access of multimedia archives. This project called for the creation of both a digital library and a website, which features photos, sketches and drawings, corporate documents, and video content. Visitors to the site can also browse through the pages of the Pirelli magazine, which was published from 1948 to 1972, promoting one of the nation’s most highly evolved forums of cultural debate for over two decades.

The entire catalogue is available in both English and Italian and represents an example of excellence in online corporate archives.

The publication of this content, which is periodically updated through ongoing efforts to catalogue and digitise the Historical Archives, meets one of the Foundation’s primary objectives, which is that of promoting the organisation’s history and culture by ensuring the greatest access possible to this rich cultural heritage.