Geospatial Technologies for the built heritage management: Experiences in Sardinia, Italy

In the light of current developments in Information Communication Technologies, this paper presents three case studies of the usage of geo-information technologies concerning the management and recovery of historical built heritage. With reference to the experiences of the authors in Sardinia, Italy the first example reports on the impact of the Regional Spatial Data Infrastructure to the safeguard of historical built heritage in urban and regional landscape planning. The second example reports on the use of Geographic Information Systems in historical centres redevelopment. The third example deals with the development of a web-based knowledge base on the earth architectural heritage aimed at supporting its recovery and reuse. Some conclusive remarks outline the role of authoritative and volunteered sources of information in the domain of historical built heritage