The Archivo de la Palabra y de la Imagen de Cartagena Project: the archive meets the archivist

Abstract

The aim of the following exposition is to describe the ‘Archivo de la Palabra y de la Imagen de Cartagena’ project, which emerges as a need to preserve the intangible cultural heritage of the city of Cartagena and its region. If that information is not researched and preserved adequately, there is a risk that it will disappear. That is to say, we can lose a valuable information transmitted orally—and consequently without any written available documents—by our community. Finally, we hope to obtain from the project we have presented on this document a base of knowledge made up of digital documents and their metadata of creation, administration and use about nonwritten culture of our region, and some tertiary tools as well.