As part of an international and interdisciplinary project (ProSiMo), the Italian group proposed a re-reading of the main historical sources related to the devastating earthquake that struck Calabria and Messina in 1783. It aims to answer fundamental questions which remain unanswered, such as how many communities are affected. Or to pose new research questions around the documentary accounts of the damage and the specific outcomes and processes that resulted from the disaster in individual localities. The essay aims to highlight the fundamental role of geo-historical studies, which process qualitative and descriptive data in order to derive the information used by other disciplines for the realisation of systems that appear highly technological. Thecontribution of historical cartography was particularly promising and, together with the reinterpretation of descriptive sources, made it possible to identify a good percentage of the affected centres that had escaped the attention of, for example, the INGV's major project on historical Italian earthquakes (ASMI). These results open up scenarios for comparison and exchange with “hard sciences”, which will be able to acquire the new information in order to proceed with the implementation of their own systems. The research has also led to the creation of two prototype products, a qualitative-quantitative database and a historical webGIS, tools that will allow further research to be carried out. These topics include, for example, the complex relationships between settled communities and their highly seismic territory, the use of resources, the economic, social and administrative dynamics triggered by natural disasters, historical toponymy and its multiple valences, and the patrimonialisation of historical landscapes.
Il webGIS storico “Tremuoto 1783”: uno strumento per la valorizzazione del patrimonio culturale e naturale, fra geotecnologie e saperi geostorici / Ciaglia, Filiberto; D'Ascenzo, Annalisa; Rossi, Matteo. - In: BOLLETTINO DELLA SOCIETÀ GEOGRAFICA ITALIANA. - ISSN 2974-5780. - 2(2024), pp. 3-16. [10.36253/bsgi-1933]
Il webGIS storico “Tremuoto 1783”: uno strumento per la valorizzazione del patrimonio culturale e naturale, fra geotecnologie e saperi geostorici.
Filiberto Ciaglia;Matteo Rossi
2024
Abstract
As part of an international and interdisciplinary project (ProSiMo), the Italian group proposed a re-reading of the main historical sources related to the devastating earthquake that struck Calabria and Messina in 1783. It aims to answer fundamental questions which remain unanswered, such as how many communities are affected. Or to pose new research questions around the documentary accounts of the damage and the specific outcomes and processes that resulted from the disaster in individual localities. The essay aims to highlight the fundamental role of geo-historical studies, which process qualitative and descriptive data in order to derive the information used by other disciplines for the realisation of systems that appear highly technological. Thecontribution of historical cartography was particularly promising and, together with the reinterpretation of descriptive sources, made it possible to identify a good percentage of the affected centres that had escaped the attention of, for example, the INGV's major project on historical Italian earthquakes (ASMI). These results open up scenarios for comparison and exchange with “hard sciences”, which will be able to acquire the new information in order to proceed with the implementation of their own systems. The research has also led to the creation of two prototype products, a qualitative-quantitative database and a historical webGIS, tools that will allow further research to be carried out. These topics include, for example, the complex relationships between settled communities and their highly seismic territory, the use of resources, the economic, social and administrative dynamics triggered by natural disasters, historical toponymy and its multiple valences, and the patrimonialisation of historical landscapes.I documenti in IRIS sono protetti da copyright e tutti i diritti sono riservati, salvo diversa indicazione.