Riesce: an hypertextual tool for browsing information produced in the building sector by PFEd

The structure of a set of documents allows for navigation inside single texts. Yet it is often also an obstacle to comparability between different parts and concepts. Even document formatting isonly a partial answer to the problem, since it fails to develop the matter of relationships between enunciation and results. It was need to retrieve information about the scientific findings made by Research Units (Operating Units) during the first three years of the "Progetto finalizzato Edilizia" (PFEd) fro assessment and transfer purposes which led us to design and develop a system to facilitate the retrieval of the relevant information. We chose the building Sector for this application because its relative lack of previous experience of this type, the variety and complexity of documentation available and, last but not least, the general understimation of mresearch topics and results vis-à-vis the development of the Sector. By making the suggestion and information inherent in its findings more available, in terms of method and ambit, as well as more explicit, the research has already achieved a significant result. In view of the prototype character of the experiment, the information will probably be adapted to produce an hypertext on the final results.