Efforts to automate the handling of information concerning the Catalog of the Italian cultural and artistic heritage have been made in the past by the Institute for the Catalog and Documentation (ICCD) of the Ministry of Cultural and Environmental Heritage.A feasibility study for the realization of a data base of the national cultural heritage has been conducted by CNUCE, the scientific computing center of the Italian National Research Council and ICCD. This study led to the determination of the caracteristics of data contained on the record cards, to the location of some samples areas, sufficiently representative of the Italian situation, for the setting up of a model of information system and to the implementation of a data bank on CNUCE computers using the IBM STAIRS information retrieval system.Following this study, a project is presently conducted by the two institutions, with the aim of setting up a distributed structure for the preparation, acquisition, access to and dissemination of the information concerning the Italian cultural and artistic heritage.This paper describes the functions of this proposed structure, with reference to the results of the first experiences and implementations.
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