Geomatica e beni culturali: GIS per la valorizzazione degli insediamenti rupestri dell'Alto Salento

The acquisition and utilization of electronic support of documentary material concerning the architectural heritage and the development of methods of digital technology applied to cultural heritage have become increasingly recurrent. The potential offered by such technologies in the design and subsequent management of information in the field of conservation of cultural heritage are many and in particular the digitization of data is considered an essential part for the development of cultural heritage. An increasingly common application in the use of new technologies is in fact the GIS (Geographical Information System). A geographical information system or better known as GIS, is intended to capture, manage and analyze data in a spatial context. GIS is now no longer the preserve of a small circle of experts, but are becoming everyday work tools, thanks to the management capabilities and spatial analysis and the growing demand for geo-referenced data by the Public Administration and the professionals who work with geographic data. This Geographical Information System for the systematic cataloging of rupestrian settlements present in the Upper Salento in Apulia, implements GIS analysis technologies. With them will immediately highlight the common features of the architecture, creating tables, converted into special formats, dynamically linking the artifacts and thematic segments: a valuable source for an innovative analytical tool, in conservative recovery key and subsequent promotion of the entire system of rupestrian settlements present in the Upper Salento.