A Double-layer Approach for Historical Documents Archiving

Nowadays we live in a modern society that imposes constantly new challenges projected towards the future; this is also reflected in our life style, which is frenetic and increasingly projected towards the future. We live in the era of smart cities, which arise from the dream of optimizing resources in terms of economic development, environmental efficiency and stability through integrated technologies. We are constantly connected to internet and the mobile devices in our hands, in some way, make us like sensors capable of acquiring, storing and exchanging information [1]. How do we exploit this potential by making a significant contribution to our history? Can we use these devices to make the cataloguing of historical documents smart, combining future and past? The purpose of this article is to propose a methodology that could support the automatic creation of an historical documents archive, even for non-expert users. Taking advance of two graphical approaches (Ontology and Context Dimension Tree), this methodology would be part of historical document cataloguing in order to design an archive which can be easily consulted by various categories of users. The system architecture and experimental results of a first prototype tool will be presented.