The Archives Online project was started in 2003 with the aim to create a virtual archive of the documentary heritage of the various political personalities, parties and parliamentary groups, that is kept in the Historical Archives of the Senate and a number of other institutes and foundations. The project integrates the various primary sources for Italian political and institutional history in a single online resource with a meta-search engine which enables users to search inside the various funds. Single archival documents are available together with the inventories of the documents reproduced in digital format. There are currently about 1,000,000 documents available, mainly correspondences, interviews, speeches, photos and audio/video documents. The following two projects are of related interest:Senatori d'Italia and Le carte della politica.