出版社：National Centre for Maps and Cartographic Heritage
摘要：The Imago Tusciae project, developed at the Geography Workshop of the Department of Historyat the University of Siena (working group: Cinzia Bartoli, Luca Deravignone, Barbara Gelli,Claudio Greppi, Giuseppe Lauricella, Fortunato Lepore, Giancarlo Macchi Janica and GiulioTarchi), is an online digital archive of the historic cartography of Tuscany. At present the archivecomprises around 2,000 documents belonging to different fonds of the Siena State Archives, soonto be joined by the maps from the Grosseto State Archives. The objective is that of progressivelygathering within the archive the cartographic documentation from the various registries inTuscany (archives and both public and private libraries) as well as that concerning Tuscany butconserved elsewhere (in Italy and abroad).In addition to operating as a means for consulting the data and seeking information, theapplication also makes it possible to view the maps and other related documents in high resolutionand offers a range of tools for study and reflection: informative factsheets on the documents, listsof authors with respective biographical details, bibliographic references, lists of archive fonds andatlases of maps complete with descriptions and an interactive chronology localised on the map ofmodern day Tuscany. By exploiting the technical features of Web 2.0 (through tabbed browsing)and using a linear and intuitive interface architecture, the application seeks to offer a userexperience as similar as possible to that of a scholar at a desk in an archive, with documents ofdiverse provenance and suggestions generated by the cross referenced examination of the sources
关键词：Cartographic Heritage; digital archives; Tuscany; historic cartography
