[Edited by Antonello Mori]
The possibilities offered by new digital technologies allow exploring new ways to enhance archival documentation, making them not only more accessible to a user base consisting only of academical but also enabling the general public to approach them. Among the many tools available in digital public history, the animated video is a flexible tool, limited only by the imagination and skills of the creator. Moreover, thanks to the great accessibility of professional software and high-performance hardware, it is very cheap to produce. Equally important is the capacity to convey information to the public without being boring by linking certain concepts to specified images and/or sounds, which will then be memorised by the spectator.
Further readings:
Ben Shneiderman, Catherine Plaisant, Maxime Cohen, Steven Jacobs, Niklas Elmqvist, Designing the user interface: strategies for effective human-computer interaction, Boston, Pearson, 2017.
Thomas Cauvin, Public History: A textbook for pratice, London, Routledge, 2016.
