ICH Discovery: tools to integrate and share ICH archives with QueryLab

This paper presents an extension of QueryLab, focused on intangible heritage, offering new tools for querying and visualising results, integrating them with the inventories already collected, giving them a specific identity and a dedicated section. QueryLab is a platform designed to query several cultural databases at the same time in a transparent and simplified way. The study of tools for integrating data from different sources is very timely, and data visualisation can be of great help and impact in showing results. Some preliminary results have demonstrated the simplicity of use, combined with the effectiveness of QueryLab in displaying results from different archives in a single system and facilitating the comparison, sharing, dissemination and preservation of cultural heritage. For the analysis and testing phases, data from Asia Pacific and India were used.