Un archivio elettronico per il “Bollettino della Società Geografica Italiana

Focus of the project are the great opportunities related to the spreading of knowledge through IT solutions: still inaccessible a few years ago, today the first engine for cultural initiatives. The digital storage of information, more and more diffused in PA environments as well as in accounting business, has grown till involving even library collections and allowing on line access to periodicals and editorial works. On this basis, the authors describe a large project aiming to the digital reproduction and storing of the whole collection of «Bollettino della Società Geografica Italiana», that means more than 50.000 text and image files derived from the articles edited between 1873 and 2002, the last year in which production has been only on paper. From this date on, the bulletin is also consultable on the official site www.societageografica.it. The project was conceived by the academic professor Tullio D’Aponte, and then developed by Daniela La Foresta at the Department of Environmental and Territorial Dynamics Analysis of Federico II University of Naples, supported by internal engineers and students. The project was then defined in it’s final details together with Franco Salvatori, President of the Italian Geographic Society. This digital edition of the bulletin allows the building of interactive queries to find the articles of interest and then printing them entirely or in part. It is also possible to realize a thematic bibliography of selected articles and then export or print it separately. The software for indexing and search has been realized in the same University Department under the guide of Tullio D’Aponte and is free from commercial copyright.