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Digital humanities have enjoyed significant progress over the past years, offering to historians new significant opportunities. Exploiting the tools that the Web puts at the researchers’ disposal, this forum aims at fostering new debates around little-explored themes, such as the memory of Fascist internment camps in its relationships with digital media. Scholars with different scientific and disciplinary back grounds participated in this forum, putting forward new interpretations.

This paper is a reasoned review of the main’s cultural institutes websites working about Mediterranean Europe, with a reading that links political economic dimension with that of communication to verify the state of research and study’s transnational circuits. The first part of the paper drafts a general summary of the research fields promoted by the main academic institutes and Studies Centers about Europe and Mediterranean, in France, Spain and Portugal; in the second one the paper examines the websites of Research Facilities working on Mediterranean Europe History in Italy, in Maghreb’s Countries, in Greece and in Turkey. The research aims to study the media representation of research Centers in digital spaces toward transnational perspective, examining a multiplicity of sources starting from audiovisual ones.

This essay focuses on the methodology on line newspapers adopt in order to guarantee the preservation and the retrieval of their born-digital materials. First of all, it describes what kinds of documents are published on these websites. Then, after an analysis of theirs search-tools, it emphasizes two possible ways to improve them: the first aiming at improving the interrogation by “descriptive metadata” and the other one focused on a full-text interrogation using semantic search. It also stresses the importance of “complete preservation” of these digital resources. In the conclusion, it pointes out the importance of linking web history and the studies on born-digital preservation