All this can only happen with direct evidence and, therefore, with the contribution of the entire population, whose counterpart can be continuous cultural updating.
Here we will try the online documentation of the Municipality of Serracapriola, in the province of Foggia. The starting point will be the involvement of a local reality interested in the documentation of the territory and, if necessary, the literacy process of new communication techniques will be triggered with a remote course.
The final objective of this attempt is the creation of a virtual site, which allows the user not only to understand how the development and transformation of building constructions have been conditioned by the uses and customs of the population, but to intervene to make corrections or additions to the existing documentation. We will start by making interactive a plan of the country, in order to view, with the click, the corresponding points of view from the street. Each image recalled will, in turn, be made interactive so as to allow entry into the individual buildings, whose history will allow us to know the habits and needs of the inhabitants, who, after all, are the basis of the transformations undergone by the buildings themselves. It will be like knocking on the door of every single house, some will be open to us, while others will remain closed, but everything will depend on how the operation will be set up and conducted. What should never be forgotten is the substantial difference between the Internet and any paper archive. Due to cost and space problems, we are used to worrying too much about the selection of documents to be archived or published: online documentation does not have these problems! Today, thanks to the Internet, we can also make available on the net those documents, which we have always considered of little importance, but which, read calmly, show us, in an unequivocal way, that any urban center is a living organism, subject to forms of rejection, when the man submits it to unnatural or, in any case, improvised transplant operations.
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