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seminari e convegni Proceedings of the International Conference Pisa, Scuola Normale Superiore November 6-7, 2013 Cartography and cadastral maps Visions from the past, for a vision of our future edited by Benedetto Benedetti, Charles Farrugia, Beatrice Romiti and András Sipos This conference has been carried out within the ENArC Project with the support of the Culture Programme 2007-13 of the European Commission. This publication reflects the views only of the author(s), and the Commission cannot be held responsible for any use which may be made of the information contained therein. The images are supplied by the authors: they are at the disposal of any copyright holders whose iconographic material has not been identified. © 2015 Scuola Normale Superiore Pisa isbn 978-88-7642-396-3 Contents Presentation Benedetto Benedetti ix Introduction Thomas Aigner, Charles J. Farrugia xi La cartografia al servizio del Pubblico: il caso delle aree del Policlinico Umberto I 1 Beatrice Romiti Cadastral Maps – Ideal Field for International Archival Cooperation 9 András Sipos The Territory Portal 13 Mario Signori Estate Maps in 18th Century France: Between Representation of Land Rights and the Production of Accurate Maps 31 Nicolas Verdier Step by Step: Digitisation Projects of Cadastral Documents in the Central Archive of National Archives of Hungary, Budapest 41 Enikő Török Gesher Galicia’s Cadastral Map & Landowner Records Project: A Virtual Recreation of a Vanished Province 47 Pamela A. Weisberger Gesher Galicia’s Online Cadastral Map Room: Evolution and Opportunities 55 Jay Osborn Early Aerial Photographs from the State Archives of Bavaria. Exploring a New Synergy between Archival Holdings and Geographic Imaging 63 Julian Holzapfl The Historical Cadaster of Tuscany and the CASTORE Project 71 Umberto Sassoli Register of the Maps in National Archives of Estonia: Visions, Plans, Practices 81 Liina Lõhmus Present and Future of the Digital Catastral Heritage in Croatian State Archives 85 Mirjana Jurić Cadastral Maps in the State Archives in Pazin and Their Usage in Everyday Archival Practice 93 Biserka Budicin, Maja Cerić Ancient Cartography and Historical Maps, Useful Tools in the Hands of the Archaeologists 101 Enrico Romiti Landscape Archaeology and Historical Cartography: A Contribution to the Study of Ancient and Medieval Settlement in Canicattini Bagni (Syracuse) 111 Santino Alessandro Cugno ‘Cadastral Records’ ante litteram? Suggestions from the Catalogus Baronum and the Confinationes of Southern Norman Italy Notarial Documents 121 Paola Massa Sources for Knowing the Territory: The Terrilogi of the Historical Diocesan Archives of Lucca 135 Tommaso Maria Rossi Illustrated Cabrei, a Private Form of Cadastral Maps: The Case of the Republic of Genoa 147 Micaela Antola Online Access to the Historical Cartography of Trapani’s Territory: Problems and Perspectives 155 Vincenzo De Santi From Hidden to Online, the Case of Horta’s Cadastral Map 163 Alexandre Nobajas Costruire la nazione. Le Carte geografiche della Raccolta Mayer 169 Sante Lesti Presentation I am very glad to present the proceedings of the workshop Cartog- raphy and cadastral maps ‒ Visions from the past for a vision of our future, which took place at Scuola Normale Superiore di Pisa in coop- eration with Budapest City Archives – Budapest Föváros Levéltára, Na- tional Archives of Malta and Sapienza-Università di Roma. The workshop has been carried out inside the ENArC Project, with the support of the Culture Programme 2007-13 of European Union, on 3rd December 2013 and was a chance to present to researchers and ar- chivists community the platforms and tools that have been developed and implemented by the ICARUs community and should also foster the discussion on the opportunities of shared cultural resources as a basis for further cooperation with ICARUS – International Center for Archival Cooperation and APE – Archival Portal Europe. Our aim was to present a wide panorama of European and extra-Eu- ropean experiences in the field of archival treatment of cartographic material, with participants from institutions and archives represent- ing many European and non- European countries, as Archivio di Sta- to di Milano, CNRS UMR 8504 Géographicité – Paris, The National Archives – UK, National Archives of Hungary, Arcanum Ldt. Hunga- ry, Österreichisches Staatsarchiv, Gesher Galicia project and Gesher Galicia’s Cadastral Maps & Landowner records project – Los Angeles, Bayrisches Hauptstaatsarchiv, Center for Enviromental Planing and Technology University – India, National Archives of Georgia, CAS- TORE CAtasti STOrici REgionali project – Regione Toscana, Univer- sità di Firenze, National Archives of Estonia, Croatian State Archive – Zagreb, State Archives of Pazin, Scuola per la Conservazione e il Res- tauro dei Beni Culturali della Regione Autonoma Friuli Venezia Gi- ulia, Università degli Studi de L’Aquila, Archivio Storico Diocesano di Lucca, Archivio di Stato di Trapani, Università degli Studi di Macerata, Univerity of Keele. X Benedetto Benedetti I want to stress the relevance of the presence of so many Europe- an countries, as the history and civilization of Europe testifies a long and complex tradition of national and local archival documentation. Within the wide and long archival tradition in Europe, cadastral maps represent a specific character and a particularly important sector of the economic and political history of Europe. The archives and insti- tutions, as well the single specialists, present a very rich and complex documentation related to the different historical and cultural tradition, variously developed in their countries and regions, from Malta to Lith- uania, from the lands of the former Habsburgs Empire to the British, French and Italian National cadastral archives. This workshop aimed at focusing on such a multifarious and complex historical tradition, touching directly and indirectly the political and economic founda- tions of the different countries. Cadastral maps touch both individual and collective, that means civic, interests and principles. Their added value is the capability to communicate also to non-specialists through the «language of images», which brings them close to visual arts. In few cases the access to archival heritage is so easy and outright as for cadas- tral maps, which enable nearly everybody to visualize the his own and his ancestors living places, monuments, properties and landscapes. Therefore it seems quiet advisable to allow to an increasing wide au- dience the opportunity to get in touch to this part of our cultural by means of online portals and we are proud of having fostered the coop- eration of several institutions also through this workshop. Benedetto Benedetti Scuola Normale Superiore, Pisa Introduction Maps in general and cadastral maps in particular can be seen not on- ly as one of the most important sources in an archive, but also as one of the most attractive. In contrast to written documents they are not on- ly highly valuable for research purposes, but also in order to draw the attention of a vast culturally interested audience to archival material in general. From this point of view such sources can be the perfect communica- tors of what archives are and what they are doing. Already existing on- line resources containing cadastral maps and their success in terms of visitors are the best proof of this fact. It has been a big pleasure for me to watch the cadastral maps work group led by András Sipos from the Budapest Municipal Archives grow among the various other initiatives inside ICARUS for the past few years. The conference on Cartography and Cadastral Maps organized by the Scuola Normale Superiore in Pisa can be called an absolute high- light within these activities. The given proceedings are a highly im- pressive document of this event and will undoubtfully provide a good fundament for further projects in the field of digital cartography and cadastral maps in Europe. Thomas Aigner President of ICARUS XII Thomas Aigner - Charles J. Farrugia In his masterpiece The Mediterranean and the Mediterranean World in the Age of Philip II, historian Fernand Braudel wrote: no history of the sea can be written without precise knowledge of the vast re- sources of its archives. Here the task would appear to be beyond the powers of an individual historian. There is not one sixteenth-century Mediterranean state that does not possess its charter-room, usually well furnished with those doc- uments that have escaped the fires, sieges, and disasters of every kind known to the Mediterranean world. To prospect and catalogue this unsuspected store, these mines of the purest historical gold, would take not one lifetime but at least twenty, or the simultaneous dedication of twenty researchers. Perhaps the day will come when we shall no longer be working on the great sites of history with the methods of small craftsmen. Perhaps on that day it will become possible to write general history from original documents and not from more or less sec- ondary works. What Braudel wrote about the history of the sea applies also to the history of the land. With the Cadastral Maps project carried out un- der the ENArC Project we can say we are a step nearer to what Braudel called «purest historical gold». We are bringing the public nearer and in a lot cases from the comfort of their own home or over the Wi-Fi con- nectivity of a public place the public can consult the representations of land and sea in maps. While one has to respect all the traditional norms of the profession of which we are so proud, we need to move forward and adapt to change. We need to move from the art of cataloguing maps in isolation to the art of standards that make interoperability possible; to move from the art of palaeography and diplomatic for its own sake to the art of languages that the public can understand across borders – and maps are ideal for this as they speak a universal language; to move away from dedicating all our energies exclusively on national holdings to the building up of a common repository of memory.