The article deals with the activities, within the BIA-net project, of the unit CNR, to whom the a. belongs.
It aims to make accessible online
the scientific Romanist heritage already digitized in the BIA but currently available only on CD-ROM, creating a digital library for historical and legal communities offering a variety of different services. To make BIA-net an application that meets minimum requirements for
interoperability, standard characters (the Unicode encoding system), data (declarative metalanguage XML) and related management programs (an open source, portable and web interface) have been adopted. To achieve this, the conversion was carried out on both the textual
and bibliographic archive of BIA respectively in TEI / XML and in DC / XML, as also on the creation of a web interface prototype for
data access.
