Abstract
The paper describes a project named “Le fonti per la storia”, a heterogeneous collection of historical sources organized in a unitary and homogeneous archive, which is the result of a five-year research project. The sources investigated – mainly archaeological, archival, architectural, art historical, bibliographic, oral, photographic and based on material culture – all are to be found in the Primiero (TN) territorial district. The project has developed a complex database system, organized by different levels of analysis and by fields of investigation that are closely interrelated. This system is totally based on open source data management programs and the whole project is Creative Commons-licensed.