Ricerc@Sapienza

Non esiste un censimento sicuro dei centri storici esistenti in Italia. Più o meno, si dovrebbe trattare di 22.000 siti distribuiti fra i circa 8000 Comuni oggi censiti in Italia, caratterizzati da profonde differenze nella costituzione e nello stato di conservazione.

The technological innovation constitutes a strong tool to deliver and manage information about Cultural Heritage. The Istituto superiore per la Conservazione ed il Restauro of MiBAC (IsCR, former ICR) has developed the system in more than 20 years to evaluate the risk of the architectural and archaeological goods. A collaboration among the IsCR, the Istituto Centrale per il Catalogo e la Documentazione (ICCD) and Sapienza University of Rome allowed to define a specific application of the system to study and monitoring the historical centres.

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.

Urban planning has long been introduced into the territorial classification elements as belonging to integrated waste cycle management. Within such framework, types of urban hygiene are defined and described. In particular, the General Regulatory Plan of the City of Rome has established that areas and facilities for separate collection of waste belong to the secondary urbanization works to be identified by executive planning, as well as for temporary collection, compacting and conveying inert and bulky waste.

PAThs – Tracking Papyrus and Parchment Paths: An Archaeological Atlas of Coptic Literature (P.I. Paola Buzi) is an ERC Advance project based at the Sapienza University of Rome. It focuses on compiling a catalogue of literary manuscripts in the Coptic language, organised by their archaeological and geographical contexts. The Atlas is an open access publishing platform, built on the top of open source technologies and backed up by a web database based on Bradypus system, an MIT licensed RDBMS highly specialised in the management of archaeological and other cultural heritage data.

Philological and literary studies on Coptic language and literature have faced a growing interest in recent years. As well, a more careful and sensitive reconsideration of archives and newly collected archaeological data allow today a more detailed reconstruction of the Egyptian Late Antique and Medieval landscape. The ultimate goal of PAThs project is to build new bridges between these two disciplines by creating an online atlas able to represent Coptic literature in its archaeological context, testing methodological frameworks and building IT tools based on network technologies.

Ground stone tool (GST) technology includes artefacts utilized in pounding or grinding
activities and characterized by long life cycles and multiple uses. The introduction of
such technology dates back to early prehistory, and for this reason, it is used as prime
evidence for tackling a wide range of archaeological questions such as the origins of
technology, patterns of daily subsistence and lifeways. In this paper, we contribute to
the field of study of GSTs by discussing the application of a novel multi-level analytical

The province of Macerata, Italy, is a topographically complex region which has been little studied in terms of its temperature and precipitation climatology. Temperature data from 81 weather stations and precipitation data from 55 rain gauges were obtained, and, following quality control procedures, were investigated on the basis of 3 standard periods: 1931-1960, 1961-1990 and 1991-2014.

This analysis is focused in a small portion of territory in central Italy where the National Park of Sibillini mountains is located. This Park strongly needs a tourist and economic development, so the possibility of creating a new tourist route has been considered. GIS software was used to create and manage the route, using orthophotos and digitizing the required data.

Extreme precipitation trends and events are fundamental for the definition of the region's climate and allow the subsequent analysis of the risk for the territory and the possible countermeasures. This study takes into account the Marche Region (Central Italy) with 128 rain gauges from 1921 to 2017. Initially, in order to obtain a rainfall overview, the dominant trend of the period 1921-2017 was evaluated. Initially, in order to obtain a rainfall overview, the dominant trend of the period 1921-2017 was evaluated.