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wars, including this southern region. Supplementary documentation is preserved in Zadar (residence
of the General Governor for Dalmatia) and in Venetia.10
For all that, this archival fonds is the unavoidable source for thorough understanding of economic,
political, social, cultural relations in this region during very turbulent history. The fonds represents
very valuable source for demographic studies, especially documents from the period of Candia and
Morean Wars, and not only in the area of Boka Kotorska Bay, but also in wider region that belongs
nowadays to various states: Montenegro, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Kosovo, Albania.
Taking into account the fact that the oldest documentary heritage of the whole of Montenegro is
stored exactly in the archives and libraries in Kotor, the NGO “Notar” from Kotor was looking for the
possibilities to find and implement suitable software for the processing of these holdings. It is important
to emphasize that the documentary heritage preserved in Kotor and Boka Kotorska was created mostly
during the four centuries of Venetian rule and it is written in Latin and Italian languages, i.e. Venetian
dialect. However, during the presence of other states in this area the administrative language was
Italian too. Therefore, our documentary heritage is similar to the one created in Veneto Region and
Dalmatia during the centuries of common political system and destiny. So, we were trying to find
software designed for similar archival material and we were looking for it with the Italian producers.
Soon, we found the information about the Arianna programme, a product of the Italian company
“Hyperborea” from Pisa14, first on the Internet and then we decided to ask them for collaboration.
In addition to the historical material in Kotor Historical Archives, in Montenegro, in other towns,
a lot of historical archival material is preserved too, in other state and church institutions and private
collections, which should be processed by using the new technologies. That is why we thought it
would be good if the program Arianna3 and AriannaWeb could be presented to all potential users in
Montenegro. Thus, in May 2009 NGO “Notar” organized the presentation of Hyperborea’s products
and services in Kotor.15
About Arianna3 and AriannaWeb, software for archival sector
Figure 1: From the Land Registries on surveys carried out on the territory of Herceg-Novi and
Risan, 1704 (ME DACG IAK, UPM CC)
The documents in this archival fonds are mainly written in Italian languages, but there are many
in Old Slavic and Turkish languages (written in Cyrillic and Ottoman alphabet). 11
Selection of suitable software tools for processing historical archival material preserved in Kotor
and Montenegro
In the Kotor Historical Archives,12 which has been one of departments of State Archives of
Montenegro since 1992, stores the documentation dating back to the year 1309. The majority of
the archival material was created during the presence of Venetian government in this area of the
Boka Kotorska Bay. Unfortunately, the State Archives of Montenegro does not use any software for
processing of its archival material. About twelve years ago, the State Archives of Montenegro in
cooperation with the Faculty of Mathematical Science of Montenegro, created the information system
for the Archives (ARHIS), which has unfortunately never been implemented.13 Few years ago, the State
Archives has developed cooperation with the Croatian State Archives trying to test and implement the
pilot project of their information systems (ARHINET), but without concrete results up to now.
10 From the very first cadastre from 1421 through the surveys of territorial gains of Cyprus War (1570-1573), War of Candia (1664-1669),
Morean War (1684-1699) and so called Small war (1716-1718) until the establishing of Grimani’s cadastre, Venetian Republic was recording
all the territorial, demographical and land-property changes in the land of Dalmatia. (See more: Mirela Slukan-Altić, „Povijest Mletačkog
katastra Dalmacije“, Arhivski vjesnik, Zagreb 2000, vol. 43, pp. 171-198.)
11 Usually, the representatives of the Turkish rule wrote documents in Old Slavic language in Cyrillic alphabet with Turkish seals and
signature.
12 About Kotor Historical Archives and its holdings visit: http://poincare.matf.bg.ac.rs/iak/iak.htm.
13 Snežana Pejović, “Information sciences and historical archives”, Atlanti 1-2/2003, Maribor, 89-99.
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Arianna3 and AriannaWeb are the software tools that the Italian company “Hyperborea s.r.l.”
produces with long time experience, for the need of the archival sector (created in 2000)16. They
are produced within the one out of three Business units in “Hyperborea” – the unit named “Cultural
Heritage” involved in the accomplishment and supply of software and services for archives, museums
and libraries. The software has been installed and used in more than 300 historical archives, private
and public, around Italy.
Arianna3 is the software tool for the description, arrangement and indexing of archives. It
is a modular application that operates respecting the international ISAAD (G) and ISAAR (CPF)
standards.17 Arianna3 exploits evolved technologies such as the XML/EAD standard,18 which
guarantees the interoperability with other kinds of systems and software. It is a product which performs
archival operations for every type of archives and for realization of different finding aids. This software
possesses adaptability to different archival realities and to different conte xt as well as systematic use
of control dictionary. When it comes to the description process in terms of functionalities the software
has the following features: duplication of similar typologies, customizable interface, and contextual
14 “Hyperborea” from Pisa, Italy, is a company that operates since 1995 in the ICT sector, applying computer technologies to the
environment and cultural heritage fields. “Hyperborea” offers for the cultural heritage sector its products, solutions and services: the
application fields are historical and repository archives, museums and libraries. (http://www.hyperborea.com)
15 “Digitization and valorization of cultural heritage: tools, methods, technologies (archives, libraries, museums)” is the name of the
information-educational workshop organized by the Italian companies: Metis system from Rome, (http://www.metis-group.com),
M.I.D.A. Informatica from Bergamo (http://www.midainformatica.it), the Hyperborea from Pisa, and NGO “Notar” from Kotor,
in May 2009, at Kotor. (See more: http://www.cdknotar.org/en/news/83-radionica-o-digitalizaciji-kulturnog-nasljea-u-kotoru.html.
(Consulted: August 22nd 2012).
16 The software tools have been developed in a scientific context, in the “Scuola Normale Superiore” of Pisa, and after that they have been
transformed in concrete products for the marketplace. Thus today they represent the guarantee of quality of the products that reflect the
aim to apply the IC technologies to the cultural heritage sector, in particular to the archival field (historical archives).
17 ISAD (G) General International Standard Archival Description, 2nd ed. (http://www.ica.org/10207/standards/isadg-general-internationalstandard-archival-description-second-edition.html); ISAAR (CPF) International Standard Archival Authority Records for Corporate bodies, Persons
and Families, 2nd ed. (http://www.ica.org/10203/standards/isaar-cpf-international-standard-archival-authority-record-for-corporatebodies-persons-and-families-2nd-edition.html). Consulted August 22nd 2012
18 EAD – Encoding Archival Description, Version 2002, (http://www.loc.gov/ead) Consulted: August 22nd 2012;
“Descrizione archivistica codificata”, Dizionario dei marcatori, Versione 2002, a cura di Giovanni Michetti, [Roma], ICCU, 2005. (http://www.
archivists.org/saagroups/ead/resources/ead2002cookbook/EAD2002cookbook.pdf).
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