Abstract
The goal of this work is to further increase the use, by all the stakeholders, of well-established and official cataloguing methods for the preservation, valorisation and study of naturalistic heritage. The work describes the standards of the Central Institute for Cataloguing and Documentation (ICCD) for cataloguing the Italian mineralogical, petrological and planetological heritage to the community of scientists, curators and museum practitioners. This work then provides an overview of the geoscientific heritage already catalogued through these standards and freely available for study and research purposes on the SIGECweb online database. Finally, the importance of a standardized cataloguing—in the comprehension of the historical, cultural and ethical aspects relative to the conservation and valorisation of the geoscientific heritage—will also be highlighted.
Highlights
Studies over the past two decades have shown that the debate about geoscientific heritage has evolved passing from discussions on what kind of geoscientific heritage was worthy of conservation to considering the best museum practices and policies for both its management and the valorisation of its scientific, educational and touristic meanings (Barettino et al 2000; Burek and Prosser 2008; Hoffman 2009; Magagna et al 2013; Garofano 2015; De Lima and De Souza Carvalho 2020)
The process of recognition of naturalistic heritage as a cultural property was helped by the Central Institute for Cataloguing and Documentation (ICCD), which promoted the establishment of cataloguing standards for both the technical-scientific and naturalistic heritages through a memorandum of understanding (2005) between the Ministry for Cultural and Environmental Heritage (MiBAC), the Conference of the Rectors of Italian Universities (CRUI), the National Agency for New Technologies, Energy and Sustainable Economic Development (ENEA), and the National Association for Scientific Museums (ANMS)
The aim of the present study was to examine the three different cataloguing standards realised by the ICCD to catalogue mineralogical, petrological and planetological heritage preserved in Italian natural history museums and academic institutions
Summary
Studies over the past two decades have shown that the debate about geoscientific heritage has evolved passing from discussions on what kind of geoscientific heritage was worthy of conservation to considering the best museum practices and policies for both its management and the valorisation of its scientific, educational and touristic meanings (Barettino et al 2000; Burek and Prosser 2008; Hoffman 2009; Magagna et al 2013; Garofano 2015; De Lima and De Souza Carvalho 2020). The process of recognition of naturalistic heritage as a cultural property was helped by the Central Institute for Cataloguing and Documentation (ICCD), which promoted the establishment of cataloguing standards for both the technical-scientific and naturalistic heritages through a memorandum of understanding (2005) between the Ministry for Cultural and Environmental Heritage (MiBAC), the Conference of the Rectors of Italian Universities (CRUI), the National Agency for New Technologies, Energy and Sustainable Economic Development (ENEA), and the National Association for Scientific Museums (ANMS). As highlighted by Mancinelli (2018), the establishment of common procedures was the core of the information dissemination between the diverse actors (both public and private) operating in the cultural heritage area These data exchange constituted the National Catalogue of Cultural Properties as stated in the Code of the Cultural and Landscape Heritage (article 17, paragraph 5) (Moro 2015, 2017)
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