Dino Tamburini digital archive

The DT digital archive is a home for the digitized architectural records of an architect and engineer from Trieste, Dino Tamburini (1924-2011). It's one of the first Italian private architectural archives described according to Records in Context and designed with semantic technologies, as a graph.

Dino's professional and artistic career touched hundreds of buildings and sites in Friuli Venezia Giulia. He was an important figure for post-War reconstruction of Trieste di Trieste. With his Studio Tamburini, he designed and built innovative public housing and developed urban plans, transport infrastructures, scientific laboratories and university campus buildings. In the 1980s he worked on the restoration of historical buildings in Trieste, such as the Teatro Verdi.

His digital archive features an interactive finding aid for the the Taburini's fonds, but also provides multi-dimensional access to the records as project documents, as milestones in his creative process, as personal papers, as places. The archive is developed using Tiddlywiki, a document database and wiki language for querying and presenting the results,  best known as an advanced note taking tool.