Ricerc@Sapienza

The implementation of the Risk Map of the Italian Ministry of Cultural Goods and Activities elaborated by a group of researchers from Sapienza University with experts of the Superior Institute of Conservation and Restoration and of the Central Institute for Catalogue and Documentation has
been dedicated to the description of the features and the vulnerability of the historical centres. The work developed within the Sismi Project concerned the validation of the Urban Units model through its application to two different historical settlements. The former, Cittaducale (Rieti), is

A group composed by some researchers of ‘Sapienza’ Università di Roma and informative experts of the Istituto superiore per la Conservazione ed il Restauro and the Istituto Centrale per il Catalogo e la Documentazione is working on the definition of an Territory Information System dedicated to the management of historical centres within the context of the Charter of the Risk of the Ministry of Cultural Heritage and Activities. This study wants to give answers to some different exigencies.

Studies on historical urban centres have highlighted a complex cultural context necessarily referred to various disciplines and currently managed by multiple, different and highly specialized ICT instruments. Doubtless, to cope with urban heritage, either for scientific research or preservation policies, controlling and merging complicated systems of heterogeneous information is required.