Open Data for an International Performance Knowledge base (PKb) and a persistent identifier (ASPA Code)

This article offers an overview of the results of international research concerning the application of the new technologies and the applying the best practices of Open Data/Open Access to the cataloguing of the theatrical cultural assets, analyzing the problems and achievements obtained by some important experiences. Particularly, it focuses on the structure of digital platform “PKB”, designed by the author. By using Linked Open Data, the goal is to reconstruct the theatrical production and its historical and cultural context, thanks to the collected documents and materials, in the platform itself. Moreover, the author presents the proposal for a new persistent identifier, called ASPA Code, in order to identify and to track the cultural assets of the theatrical archives. In this way, the code will also allow to connect many archives among them sharing the open data, no more static but interoperable and reusable.