Digital development offers an opportunity to safeguard our sound patrimony, but more than that it will be an opportunity to use the technological environment in the knowledge sharing. Just because the survival of the sound and audiovisual archives is dependent on the exchange of shared standards, technology, mutual support, ideas and knowledge is necessary to take advantage of these issues in order to make available the expertise knowledge to all the sound archives community.
In this sense, the Mexican National Phonoteque proposes the Sound Documentation Diplomado on line. This training program is as example of the possibilities that offer the knowledge sharing between European experts and Latin American professionals. This training program was structured accord the sound documentation process and include the most recent bibliography and documentation specialized in the issue. In this academic program directed to Latin America professionals, the National Phonoteque will invite some IASA experts to participate as teachers on line.