Availability of Historical Cadastral Data

Doris Pivac,Miodrag Roić,Josip Križanović,Rinaldo Paar

doi:10.3390/land10090917

Abstract

A systematic approach to the establishment of the Franciscan Cadastre, which has been performed in most Central European countries, has resulted in the following documents: cadastral maps, cadastral municipality boundary demarcation records, lists of land parcels, lists of building parcels and lists of possessors. The documentation, which is stored in various archives, is digitized and made available to users through catalogs. The availability of documentation was examined in this study using three services in the catalogs—discovery, view and download—of which the largest percentage of documents is available through the discovery service. Documents that are available through the discovery service are described by the metadata standards. In this study, we examined the applicability of geographic information metadata standards and metadata standards to archival documentation in catalogs in which cadastral documentation was found. We determined a lack of application of geoinformation metadata standards, as it was a cadastral dataset, which represented one of the fundamental spatial datasets. The semantic mapping of elements between the applied standards in the catalogs and the geoinformation metadata standard (ISO 19115) showed that it was possible to apply the ISO 19115 standard to documents resulting from the establishment of the cadastre.

Highlights

From ancient times, various types of land information have been collected, recorded, maintained and used, and cadastres have been established for managing such information [1]
A systematic approach to the establishment of the Franciscan Cadastre in most Central European countries resulted in cadastral documents stored in national archives
Among the multitude of documents stored in the archives, five main documents were identified as the results of the establishment of the cadastre: cadastral map sheets, cadastral municipality boundary demarcation recordss, lists of land parcels, lists of building parcels and lists of possessors

Summary

Introduction

Various types of land information have been collected, recorded, maintained and used, and cadastres have been established for managing such information [1]. By definition [2], a cadastre is normally a parcel-based, up-to-date land information system containing a record of interests in land (e.g., rights, restrictions and responsibilities) It usually includes a geometric description of land parcels linked to other records describing the nature of the interests, the ownership or control of these interests and often the value of the parcel and its improvements. It may be established for fiscal purposes and/or legal purposes to assist in the management of land and land use and enables sustainable development and environmental protection. A cadastral survey was performed in different time periods for the Austrian and Hungarian parts of the Monarchy in the Franciscan Cadastre. Apart from the Franciscan Cadastre, there are different terms that are used by various scientists: stable, stabile, Franciscian Cadastre and others [38]

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