Information technology tools for the valorisation of seismology’s historical documentary heritage

Abstract

<p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 9.0px Times;">In the past few decades historical documentation of a scientific and non-scientific nature has taken on critical</p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 9.0px Times;">importance in the different sectors of seismology: historical seismology and historical seismometry.</p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 9.0px Times;">Modern technologies offer unique opportunities for cataloguing and efficiently distributing the reproductions or digital versions of scientific letters.</p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 9.0px Times;">Over the last 20 years SGA (Storia Geofisica Ambiente) has set up and promoted, within the scope of the TROMOS (INGV-SGA) and EUROSEISMOS (INGV-SGA) projects, initiatives for the cataloguing, reproduction,</p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 9.0px Times;">study and dissemination of documentation relating to the history of seismology in both Italy and Europe. This approach, based on the application of modern technologies, has enabled us to achieve a rigorous processing and study of documents using the most appropriate information technology tools.</p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 9.0px Times;">The techniques we have used encourage the dissemination and study of historical scientific documentation seeking to bring together scholars and research groups within a new disciplinary community dedicated to studying the history of earth sciences.</p> <br />