The role of geographic information system in the project “The archaeological paper of the City of Reggio Calabria”

The use of Geomatics in projects regarding archaeological goods and archaeology, in its complex, is becoming usual consolidated procedure; according to it, it’s sufficient to think the various applications of sector which see, between those characterized by the greater technological innovation content, the use, for the relief operations on the field, of all those technologies, methodologies and algorithms of data elaboration which refer directly and/or indirectly to the Geomatics using GIS as final manifold of all this information. To all that, the municipal administration of Reggio Calabria (ITALY) didn’t remain indifferent, pointing in fact, to the precious support provided by tools available from Geomatics, and according to the specific demands for knowledge and exploitation of archaeological testimonies, it has promoted, in the project “Archaeological paper of the town”, the formation of a GIS for archaeological goods (SITBA). SITBA has many aims, one of these very important is to present to the population the great archaeological property, identifying and exploiting the strong witness presence of archaeological evidences of town. An other important aim is to feed and populate Municipal Informative System (SITCO). SITBA, besides to constitute the first data processing archive with geographic reference, equipped from several documental sources, will be furthermore inserted in a circuit of tourist promotion; to such purpose a series of multimedia TOTEM, opportunely implemented with GIS technology, will be arranged in strategic points of town tourist flow.