Fotosar.it. La fototeca online della SSBAR

Luca Zizi

«Archeologia e Calcolatori» 2015, Supplemento 7, 245-250

Abstract

The Soprintendenza Speciale per i Beni Archeologici di Roma (SSBAR) possesses a notable photographic collection which is highly remarkable because of the variety, quality and quantity of the images (about 500,000 analogical examples on several types of supports). The need to protect negatives, recently recognized as cultural heritage, and their contents, required the digitization of a considerable part of the SSBAR photographic library. An easy searchable digital archive was therefore created, together with the website http://www.fotosar.it finalized to make this whole heritage available to the public. This website was activated in 2002 and continually improved till the current version; it permits the free consultation of the photos, also through excellent features to enlarge details, and their purchase in various formats (low, medium, high density) with different fees set on the basis of the intended use. In addition to the value of the website itself, our hope is that the Fotosar website, holding numerous and valuable images, not only of works of art but also of excavations and archaeological finds, will be able to cooperate with the SITAR system. This cooperation will allow users to access Fotosar contents related to a specific urban area or monument by selecting the corresponding location in the SITAR web map. The future objective is to continue the meritorious cooperation undertaken with the experience of exchange of views and interrelations described above, towards a general harmonization of our work.

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