ITALIAN ARCHAEOLOGIS INFO SITE

The Risk Map of Cultural Heritage in Italy

A GIS realized by Istituto Centrale per il Restauro (Italian Ministry of Culture).

Characteristics:

Data Base with cards realized directly on the field with alphanumeric, graphic, photos and cartographic data. Software engine ARC/INFO-ARCVIEW MAPINFO.
Particular attention on the territory in all its physical and anthropic aspects (static-structural danger, environmental danger , anthropic danger, physical-morphological characteristics, degree of urbanization and infrastructures, planning instruments, constaints, etc.); the characteristics of conservation of the cultural assets located in that territory.
Cartographi base 1:250.000 (Whole Italy)
Consistency (1996)
Generic Cards: 57000 items (5000 archaeological), Database ORACLE, ca 20 fields/card, no immages, no georeference
Detailed Cards: 800 items georeferenced (300 archaeological), Database ACCESS and ORACLE, ca 150 field/items, images PhotoCD, graphics AutoCAD, raster cartography.

Examples of cards and related fields:

Card RA-MASTER (archaelogical main)

Card RA-FOTOG (photos)

Example of multimedia use of data:

Risk Map - Turin

Main Italian Catalogue

An Information System realized by the Istituto Centrale per il Catalogo e la Documentazione (Italian Ministry of Culture).

The Istituto Centrale per il Catalogo e la Documentazione has the main mission of the constitution and management of the general Index of Cultural Items (archaeological, historic-artistic, architectural, environmental, anthropologic)

The cartographic data bases, actually in a test phase, are:

ATLAS: Digital cartographic files at a little scale, with various levels related to admnistrative limits and environmental ties.
CARTOGRAPHIC BASE FOR CATALOGUING DATA: cartographic base with more layers on a portion of PO river.
INDEX OF AERIAL COVERAGE: data base service of Aerofototeca; limits of areas with aerial coverage on cartography IGMI 1:100.000, with technical data on photograms.

Information System on Environment and Landscape

An Information System realized by the Ufficio Centrale Beni Ambientali e Paesaggistici (Italian Ministry of Culture), called Sistema Informativo Territoriale Ambientale e Paesaggistico (S.I.T.A.P.)
The Ufficio Centrale per i Beni Ambientali e Paesaggistici is managing a National Information System with cartographic, graphic, alfanumeric, tables data related to tie areas.

The Data Base is realized with integration between cartographic, graphic and alfanumeric data.
Geographic Informations at the scale 1:25.000. All ties related to laws 1497/39 and 431/85 for the whole Italy. Archaelogical and architectural ties by law 1080/39 are being updated.
Images, photos and documents on tie areas are stored.

Data Base of Soprintendenza Archeologica della Toscana

The Soprintendenza Archeologica della Toscana has realized the following data bases:

Archaeological evidences - 80.000 cards
Photos - 9.000 cards
Maps and survey - 4.350 cards (of 7.000 items)
Historical cards (till to 1970) - 13.000 cards

Data Base of Sovraintendenza Comunale Beni Culturali Roma

Active Data Bases :

"Forma Urbis Romae" (see demo site on the WEB www.aec2000.it)
"Schede delle Stampe della Galleria Comunale", 1500 records
"Casali dell'Agro Romano", 1800 records
"Monumenti antichi dell'Agro Romano", 1500 records
"Archivio Disegni della Soprintendenza", 2000 records
"Registro dei trovamenti archeologici", all founds since 1900
"Reperti lapidei dei Fori Imperiali", 11000 records
"Archivio Fotografico dell'Agro Romano", 10000 records

Work in progress :

Completion of Agro Romano 3000 records
"Archivio fotografico", (Completion) 20000 records
Realization of New Forma Urbis
Completion of "Reperti Lapidei Fori Imperiali", 30000 records
"Antiquarium Comunale" and "Musei Capitolini"

Land Information System of Suburbio Sud Orientale di Roma

Realized by the II UNIVERSITÀ DI ROMA TOR VERGATA

- Data Base of Census of the archaeological and historic-artistic heritage

The census of the archaeologic and historic-artistic heritage project has realized a experimental data bank, on the basis of the photos, digitized data and images of 225.000 cultural items of some south Italian regions.
Lazio:

Archaeologic superintendence of Rome;
Collections of medals of Rome;
Eastern art museum;
Etnographic museum Pigorini;
Rome museum;
Castel Sant'Angelo museum;

Calabria:

Archaeologic superintendence of Reggio Calabria;
BAAAS Cosenza superintendence;

Sardegna:

Archaeologic superintendence of Cagliari.

Plants, survey and maps historic archive of the Archaeologic Superintendence of Ostia

The data bank of plants, survey and maps Historic Archive of the archaeologic Superintendence of Ostia contains 12000 maps preserved in the archives to allow a future consultation without problems derived from manipulation.
The archives contains historic funds relative at the illustrations and at the graphic documentations of the field intervention from 1800 till now.
This documentation is articulated in two stages. In the first part of the project there was the raster acquisition of a copy of the map, then it is integrated with news about escavation and bibliography.

Data Base of Archaeological items of Lazio

Cards on ca 20.000 archaeological items of Lazio with ca 1.600 images.
Realized by Archaeological Superintendence of Rome.

Archaeological Cards and Land Planning of Sassari and Nuoro

A thematic map showing the final data coming from cataloguing on the field from 1970 and 1996. DB with 681 cards MA, 320 cards on sites, 3380 images, 325 graphics.

Ports and Landing-Place in the antiquity

Localization and documentation of the archaeologic evidences, throught an activity of surveying between land and sea, within the baptimetry of 10 meters.
Regions: Marche, Abruzzo, Molise, Puglia, Calabria, Basilicata and Sicilia. DB with 4500 cards, 900 cartographic maps, 13.000 photographs.

Archaeological Risk Map on Emilia-Romagna

The archaeologic map provides the establishement of a data bank containing all the archaeologic informations relative at the land, connected to a digitized cartography.

Information System of Regione Liguria

Index of archaeological items of museums in Regione Liguria.