A key element to the knowledge of a territory is its intangible heritage. That is why it introduced the plan to build the Sound Archive of Aldeias de Magaio (ArSoMa), a project of collecting, scanning, organizing and publishing important part of the intangible heritage of mountain villages in the municipality of São Pedro do Sul
The archive will be a systematic collection of testimonies sound important part of our intangible heritage (specific sounds of nature, the villages, the interaction between man and land, songs, stories and local legends, personal memories of work, emigration, events, accents and pronunciations, etc..) which will be properly sorted and classified according to technical criteria that allow access to researchers, developers, managers and land promoters, general audiences and more importantly, the actual population of the area , including the youngest. This sound archive should be able to retain aspects of imagination, and values at the same time transforms and disseminates a range of geographical, historical, anthropological and artistic, which can be studied and disseminated culturally directly or indirectly.
This arcgive will be carried out in accordance with the latest open standards in the audiovisual archiving in the digital (including recommendations for listing of the International Association of Sound and Audiovisual Archives – IASA and the Open Archives Initiative “for the collection of metadata, ie the descriptors for the archiving of sound recordings), the international standards for the digitization of audio content and recommendations of the W3C in the area of Semantic Web (eg the use of XML technologies).
The documentation and preservation of intangible heritage enables us to bequeath to future generations as much information about our past and current reality. The archive should therefore meet the expectations and current and future needs of their users and match them with the structure of file contents and forms of access and protection.
This sound archive will be developed by Binaural / Associação Cultural de Noda for the Association Aldeias de Magaio, with national and international experts in the areas of digital archiving, musicology, anthropology and soundscapes.
