WIKIMEMO: A Portal for Italian Language and Culture Heritage Conservation

Since 150 years Italian people migrated abroad. Today the community with people with Italian origin add up to 10 million of people, including immigrant descendants in different countries. For these community the link with their original root can be useful for maintaining the self identity. In this paper we present the architecture for the design of Wikimemo, a portal for Italian Language and Culture Heritage conservation. From one side it aims to supply instruments to retrieve the records of the immigration experiences allowing their story telling through voices, sounds, pictures, documents, objects, from the others it offers didactical instruments (like texts, frequency lexicon, form vocabulary, anagrams lists etc.) useful for ameliorating the language knowledge. The whole project is focused on the autobiographical writing, the importance of free sharing of experiences and memories, of linguistic and cultural resources, of tools supporting the Italian language learning. The problems connected with the importance of a friendly user interface and of the usage of security tools is underlined.