Presentation of the Web-GIS portal created by CROMA-Roma Tre University
ROME IN THE XVIII CENTURY
Venerdì 18 maggio 2018, ore 15.00
Auditorium Museo dell’Ara Pacis
Lungotevere in Augusta, Roma
The WebGIS Rome portal in the eighteenth century is an integral part of the scientific and editorial project that led in 2013 to the publication of the work in two volumes "Rome in the eighteenth century. Images and realities of a capital through the plan of G.B. Nolli », edited by Carlo M. Travaglini and Keti Lelo, edited by CROMA-University of Roma Tre and Edilstampa. It was a project conceived following a largely multidisciplinary approach and realized thanks to extensive research in the field, both the contribution of various scholars, and an active collaboration with the Municipality of Rome - Department of Cultural Growth (Municipal Superintendence for Goods cultural, Capitoline Historical Archive, Museum of Rome, Sarti Library), with the Ministry of Cultural Heritage and Activities and Tourism (State Archive of Rome, Archeology and Art History Library, Central National Library of Rome, National Institute for Graphics) and with the Marco Besso Foundation. An indispensable premise for the realization of the project was the development, within the CROMA cartographic and territorial analysis laboratory, of a fully reliable cartographic base of eighteenth-century Rome, using an absolutely important source: the «New plant of Rome », published in 1748 by Giovanni Battista Nolli. The exceptional level of detail and the marked precision that distinguish the New Plant have allowed the implementation of a Geographic Information System on Rome, open to new continuous integrations, fully superimposable with contemporary cartography and with other information systems and databases compatible with national criteria and international. The portal of the Historical Web GIS is the dynamic interface of a vast multidisciplinary research site for the construction of a "modern and contemporary Atlas of Rome", which can be a useful tool for expanding the knowledge and tools of population analysis , of the physical and socio-economic characteristics of the city and its transformations over time, through the integrated use of cartographic and iconographic, descriptive and quantitative sources: a story across the board, with contributions from different disciplines, firmly anchored to a territorial matrix . A new research tool intended to be implemented with the various territorial databases already prepared and being tested by the CROMA (for example, the Pio-Gregoriano Urban Cadastre) and open to dialogue and integration of information with other information systems on Rome.
Carlo M. Travaglini is Full Professor of Economic History and History of the City and of the Territory at the Roma Tre University, he directs the University Center for the Study of Rome (CROMA), he directs the six-monthly journals «City and History» and « Modern and contemporary Rome », is director of the II level Master in Management-Promotion-Technological Innovations in the Management of Cultural Heritage.
Keti Lelo is a TD researcher in Economic History and History of the city and territory. He is responsible for the cartographic and territorial analysis laboratory at the CROMA-University of Rome Tre.