The Challenges of Developing a Collection of Primary Information, Media Sources and a Virtual Collection of Architectural and Artistic Works: An Exper

The Faculty of Architecture and Fine Art. of the Pontificia Universidad da Chile has proposed the challenge ofdeveloping a Chilean and Latin American Multimedia1 File of Works of Art and Architecture. This archive is a system composed of: - Collections of primary information sources: blueprints, slides, documents, videos, and others. - A virtual collection. - A database which allows the access to real as well as virtual collections. This project is based on the need of preserving and widespreading information concerning the patrimony of works of Architecture and Arts Latin-American Heritage. Furthermore, it gives account of the challenges set forth in the project's designing and executing processes, through the exposition of its methodological focus, description of the designed activities, products, and contents, and of the offered services.