The first digital platform for the conservation and transmission of the European Cultural Heritage
Encyclomedia, directed by Umberto Eco. The first digital platform for the conservation and transmission of the European Cultural Heritage is a conference on digital publishing.
Danco Singer, director of the project, explains how technology can be used to organize information in any format available and for any type of audience.
Through thousands of essays, images and textual and iconographic material Encyclomedia is able to divide information chronogically and by subject areas such as history, philosophy, visual arts,
science and technology, music, literature and theater, and communication.
Encyclomedia is an extraordinary tool for expanding our knowledge across disciplines and for establishing connections between events and across history.
“The very idea of Encyclomedia is inspired to a conception of our historical memory. […] It is important to know also the history of past errors in order to avoid them […] the old dictum historia magistra vitae (history is the master of life) is more serious than it is commonly believed because, if Hitler had read something on Napoleon (or at least Tolstoy’s War and Peace) he would have understood that it is pretty difficult for an army to reach Moscow before the arrival of winter — and if Bush had read documented historical narrations about the British and Russian attempt to win a war in Afghanistan in the 19th century, he would have suspected that that country presents many orographic and social features that make very difficult to submit its territory. In a world in which one is tempted to forget or to ignore too much, the reconquest of our collective past should be among our first projects for our future.” (Umberto Eco)
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