Ministry of Cultural Heritage ITALY New policies that will condition GI data policies FROM Geographic Information TO cultural information Antonia Recchia

Ministry of Cultural Heritage

ITALY

New policies that will condition GI data policies

FROM Geographic Information TO cultural information

Antonia Recchia – Coordinating Committee for ICT - Resp. S.I.T.I.A. ph 0039 658432405 [email protected]

Ros)anna Binacchi – Department of Archaeological Heritage, Resp. International relations ph 0039 658432421 [email protected]

Areas of Production and use of GI data Impact and Production Areas of GI (already present in

EUROGI Report 20 February 2000)

– Economic-financial cadastre– Statistic socio-economic data at municipal or

sub- municipal level– Military topographic maps at 1:100,000-1:50,000

and 1:25,000 scale, various themes– Local Administrations (Regions, provinces, municipalities) topographic

maps at 1:10,000 scale, 1:5,000 or 1:2,000 and 1:1,000 Privileged using areas of GI

– Agricultural productive– Environmental– Cultural landscaping

Name: Prof. Mauro SalveminiCountry: ITALY

New National Policies That Will Condition GI Data Policies

Italy has a population of about 56 million inhabitants. Its government is organized through 20 regions, 103 provinces and over 8000 municipalities.

The main producers of GI are:– At national level: national geographic military institute,

hydrographic military institute, cadastral agency, national statistic institute;

– At local level: regions, provinces and municipalities for their own territory.

Metadata and semantic interoperability are not implemented at national level.


In 1996 an agreement between central and local government (Intesa Stato, Regioni ed Enti Locali per la realizzazione dei Sistemi Informativi

Geografici di interesse generale) was signed aiming at realizing national topographic databases. A coordination technical committee was created in order to coordinate the realization of the main shared aims; this CTC is defining common rules and topographic standards.

At present, the working plan of the agreement is: The realization of reference data (1:10000), to be built in the next two years; The realization of topographic dB (1:10000), to be built in the next ten years.

Prof. Mauro Salvemini


The discussion about public sector information has been treated by a document, “L’Informazione del Settore Pubblico

nella Società dell’Informazione. La posizione del Settore Pubblico italiano”, issued by the minister of “Politiche Comunitarie” in 1999.

Other comments on the “Green Paper on Public Sector Information” and on the communication “eEurope2002: creating a EU framework

for the exploitation of Public Sector Information” have been addressed by:

The association of the Italian townships; AM/FM GIS Italy; Private researchers;

Public Sector Information 1/2



In Italy the definition of PSI has still to be clarified; for example the comments made by AM/FM Italy point out, among other, the issue of access and ownership of PSI:

There is PSI that although owned publicly has been originally and entirely funded by private industry. This is an example where there is a distinction between public use of public data or public use of privately produced data, which become publicly owned (or licensed) data.However a third part wishing to use these data has to contact the private company for accessing them.

Public Sector Information 2/2



At present the Italian government is placing particular emphasis on e-government issues.

“Piano di azione di e-government”, passed in June 2000, represents the Italian action plan for supporting innovation processes in the Italian public administration;

The 3/April/2002, the Italian government has launched a call for projects of e-government;

The decree of the prime minister, published on 14/February/2002, manage and allocate the funds (400 million Euro) for the implementation of the action plan, which will start middle 2002;

The regions allocated their own funds for support projects at local level



Legal issues

Law 241/1990 is a general law for cost free access to public sector information: often access depends on legal interest to data. Price for commercial use varies among organizations.

The document “public data: guidelines for access, communication and diffusion”, published in the February 2002 by AIPA (autorità per l’informatica nella pubblica amministrazione)

Law 675/1999 is a general law for data and privacy protection.


New national policies that will condition GI data policies

I level of national policy:

Directive of the Prime Minister, 1 November 2001

Priority Digitisation of Public Administration Development of e-government

II level of national policy: guidelines

Directive of the Minister for Innovation and Technologies, 21December 2001

Antonia Recchia - Rosanna Binacchi

New national policies that will condition GI data policies

GUIDELINES 1. Improve the level of services to citizens and companies, through transparency: digital

offices,a national portal for the citizen 2. Improve efficiency and economic policy management: introduction of technologic solutions

and tools for managing the improvement; budget management, e-procurement, data flow, personnel administration

3. Strengthen information structure: development of information structures, sharing of information services; security, pdl, multi service card, valorization of the existing information heritage

4. Develop information competences and technologies among public officers: information training, English, Interne,t through e-learning

5. Promote innovation enhancement in the Country: development of SocInfor, large band digital services, e-commerce

6. Introduce innovative tools of initiatives coordination and management: joint working groups between the Ministry for Innovation and other Administrations.

New policies of the Ministry of Cultural Heritage (MBAC) that will

condition GI data policies MBAC OBJECTIVES, PROGRAMMES AND

PROJECTS Great impulse to the use of information and

telematics technologies

OBJECTIVES : Develop programmes coherent with the guidelines

to determine a definite improvement towards digitisation, both in respect to bond heritage (institutional mission, primary processes) and in respect to processes of self- administration (secondary)

The World of Data

1. Territorial data2. Personal data3. Heritage data Within MBAC: Personal data are managed through processes

of self administration Territorial data represent the basis for geo-

referencing and contextualisation Heritage data represent the institutional mission

core


condition GI data policies

Programmes Census, cataloguing and digitisation of the cultural

heritage, why:Knowledge is strategic to

Safeguard Preserve Study Enhance


condition GI data policies

Cultural use/fruition = training and didactic period, creativity development, emotive and aesthetic

experience Necessity to transmit knowledge through digital

systems

Archives of the cultural heritage and digital records

Objective

The Italian Cultural Heritage counts for around 58% of the World Heritage

The programme goal is to make this patrimony accessible to the greatest number of people through Italy and the world

The Italian Cultural Heritage

about 80 million enjoyable items

Fruition is only possible through a vast programme of Digitisation

2002-2005 target :100% Inventorying80% Cataloguing 30% Digitisation

The Italian Cultural Heritage

Historical Artistic Heritage

Archaeological Heritage

Architectural and Landscape Heritage

Demoethnicanthropological Heritage

Library Patrimonies

Archives

Digital Archives/ Repositories

Multi media and multi lingual Structures

Multi lingual Portal

Databanks of the Cultural Heritage

1. Heritage databanks (ICCD - Central Institute for Cataloguing and Documentation)

2. Libraries databanks (SBN- National Library System)

3. Archives databanks ( National Archives System)

4. Risk liable Heritage databanks (Central Institute for Restoration)

5. Events databanks

ICCD Databanks

Historical Artistic, Archaeological, Architectural, Demoethnicanthropological, Landscape Heritage

(one million items already digitized )

• Inventory managing system and external basic data acquisition (in co-operation with CEI- Italian Episcopal Conference, Regions, local administrations)

• Cataloguing system (using common standards for the whole national territory)

• Fruition system of information included in the Data base portal for citizens, companies , local administrations

SBN Databanks

5 million items catalogued on line for consulting and loans (200.000 contacts daily)• Inventory managing system and external

data base acquisition on line• Citizens remote loans managing system • Information fruition system included in the

Data base ( portal for citizens, companies and local administrations)

Archives Databanks

• Inventory managing system and external data base acquisition

• Fruition system of the information included in the data base portal for citizens, companies and administrations

Risk liable items databanks (ICR)

• Present: Managing system of the Risk evaluation Card, including territorial risk indicators in respect to special algorithms. Cartographic base 1:100,000 – Data on 57,000 architectural items and 7,000 archaeological items

• Near future: Managing system of the individual risk (drafting of individual vulnerability card). Geo-referencing of about 200,000 architectural and archaeological items– Cartographic Base: orthogonal photos 1:10,000, cadastral base, regional maps 1:10,000.

• Objective 2005: Remote signal-system of items liable of decay by citizens, companies and administrations

Events Databanks

• Information managing system on events and external data base acquisition

• Updating system of data directly from companies and administration to the portal

• Fruition system of the information included in the data base through the portal for citizens, companies and administrations.

Multi Media Structures for Data Management (multi lingual) 1

1. Italian Digital Library Digitisation of books, manuscripts, photographic and musical

patrimonies Information on location, on line consulting, information on

single items, bookings and on line ticketing, links to single sites

Feasibility study ready Completion within 2003

2. Virtual Museum Historical virtual rendering of single items from planning to

present state On line visit. Vision in a virtually recreated environment Feasibility project ready for two experimenting monuments ( The

Coliseum, the Vittoriano) Completion within 2003

Multi Media Structures of data Management (multi lingual) 2

3. Mediateque1. Fruition system for citizens, experts and scholars/

researchers of multi media items within associated institutions

2. Feasibility study ready3. Completion within 2003

4. Virtual Tour of the Cultural Sites Museums, Archaeological Sites, Monuments,

Architectural Heritage and permanent Exhibitions Virtual vision on line, information on location, opening

times, information on various items, booking and ticketing on line, links to single sites

Completion within 2003

Multi lingualPortal of the Cultural Heritage

(visitors of the present site around 1 million a day)

1. Management of Cultural Sites Museums, Archaeological Sites, Monuments,

Architectural Heritage and permanent Exhibitions Information on location, opening times, Information on single items, booking and ticketing on

line, links to single sites, Completion within 2003

2. Management of Cultural Events Events, live performances, theatrical performances,

exhibitions Information on location, period of performance, information on single events, booking and ticketing on

line, links to single sites. Completion within 2003

Multi lingual Portal of the Cultural Heritage

3. Management of licences to private citizens, Companies and Administrations

Restoration on bond heritage items, Landscape bonds, Patronage of Events

Information on legislation, information on bond items, information on geographic areas liable to landscape bonds, on line licensing requests forms

4. On line Heritage Management Historical, Artistic, Archaeological, Architectural

Heritage, Library Patrimony, Archives, Musical and Cinema Patrimonies, Demoethnicantropological Heritage and others

Information on location, information on single items, on line access and fruition of historical and scientific information/ knowledge by experts, scholars

eEurope DG INFSO D2 Objective 3d “European content for

global networks”

Italian co-ordination among EU Ministries of Culture (Minerva)

Organizing Secretariat of the National Representative Group NRG

Network of Excellence

of European Union Authorities

towards Associated Countries (Eastern Countries)

towards professional Associations

towards the business world

exchange of

“good practices and skills”

benchmarking,

meta data,

quality of web sites

Towards the VI outline programme 2003-2006

and the Italian Presidency II semester 2003

eEurope DG INFSO D2 Objective 3d “European content for

global networks”

Principles established at LUND4 April 2001

European cultural and scientific knowledge represent an exclusive heritage endowed with public value.

This heritage must be at public disposal and be part of a sustainability dynamic

Cultural diversity, education and digital content industrial development must become a reality

Digitised resources present impressive variety and wealth

eEurope Action Plan 23 July 2001

1- Improve policies and programmes

through co-operation and comparative analysis of performances

National web sites for policies and programmes Adoption of a reference outline for the comparative analysis of policies and programmes Development of indicators and collection of measures Support to coordinating activities2- Retrieval of digitised resources National Inventories/Repositories Retrieval of digitised contents3- Promotion of good practices /”Best practices” Orientation examples Competence centres for the digitisation of contents4- Reference outline for contents Coopereation plan for access to European high quality digitised contents Sustainable access to contents

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Ministry of Cultural Heritage ITALY New policies that will condition GI data policies FROM Geographic Information TO cultural information Antonia Recchia