Observing South Caucasus’ Historical Landscape: An Open Photo Archive Tools, Activities, and Purposes of the OSCOP Project

This article presents the project Observing South Caucasus’ Historical Landscape: An Open Photo Archive, whose strategic objectives are to collect, digitise, and catalogue a collection of photographs documenting the cultural heritage of the South Caucasus. The preservation and valorisation actions are targeted at three different facets of this heritage: (1) the tangible photographic collection (i.e. the photographic object itself); (2) the intangible historical layers (evolution of site ownership, historical stratification, and corresponding toponymy); (3) the tangible architectural and natural heritage of historical Armenia and Georgia.