ABSTRACT
Framed in the intersection of Digital Humanities and New Cinema History, the chapter focuses on ontology and practice of building databases and designing websites for cultural mapping. We focus on two research projects that created festival cartographies of the Chilean and Basque regions, respectively. The first, describes methodological decisions behind the construction of a database and digital archive of Chilean film festivals, and its visualisation in a public web page. The second, reflects on the methodological tools used to collect and display data, and the possibilities and limitations brought about by new technologies. We argue that the design of these research and knowledge-transfer tools must be conceived as an all-encompassing strategy that implies a deep reflection about categorisation and its negotiation with the actors involved in the festivals’ field.
