The census project was launched in the 1980s and was carried out by a group of volunteer cavers who began a collection of artificial cavities in Piedmont and Valle d'Aosta. lnitially, the aim was to find and document the numerous hypogea of historical interest in the urban environment. In practice, the network later included the whole Piedmont, collecting data on mines, quarries, bui also iceboxes, wells, cistems, forts, and the so called "balmetU- (from "Balma•, an ancient Celtic-Ligurian word meaning natural cave for human use or more generally shelter under the rock). Data was originally collected using the form proposed by the ltalian Speleologica! Society (SSI), which has a specific national commission which deals with the typological classification of artificial cavities. The project continued by gradually adding artificial cavities in paper form unti! il reached 226 listed cavities in August 2020. From 2019, the Piedmont and Valle d'Aosta cadastre was transformed into a portai to facilitate cadastral updating operations. The portai allows users to access the cartography and cadastral records of cavities at any time. The cadastre of natural and artificial cavities are now in a single portai, also supplemented by faunistic and bibliographic data, which are undoubtedly useful sources for the study of hypogean environments. Following this update, the rules for entering new cavities have been changed, in particular, the unique alpha-numeric code referring to the type of cavities the ragion and sequential cadastre number has been modified. The cadastral number will be assigned automatically while inserting a new cavity inside the portai. In addition, following the new regulations, the form has been partly reworded to account for the specific ragionai needs. The typologies of artificial cavities were issued by the National Commission for Artificial Cavities SSI in the 80s of the last century and periodically updated, in arder to have a single classification throughout the country, which since 2013 has arso been extended to all of the world. In the cavities' sheets, where existing, topographical surveys have been enclosed. AII data are provided open source (with associated creative commons licence), and downloadable as .GPX, .KML and .CSV. There are currently 600 registered cavities, categorised according to their former use.
Cadastre of artificial cavities of Piemonte and Valle d'Aosta-new perspectives for the use and updating of data
Arianna Paschetto
First
;Davide Barberis;
2023-01-01
Abstract
The census project was launched in the 1980s and was carried out by a group of volunteer cavers who began a collection of artificial cavities in Piedmont and Valle d'Aosta. lnitially, the aim was to find and document the numerous hypogea of historical interest in the urban environment. In practice, the network later included the whole Piedmont, collecting data on mines, quarries, bui also iceboxes, wells, cistems, forts, and the so called "balmetU- (from "Balma•, an ancient Celtic-Ligurian word meaning natural cave for human use or more generally shelter under the rock). Data was originally collected using the form proposed by the ltalian Speleologica! Society (SSI), which has a specific national commission which deals with the typological classification of artificial cavities. The project continued by gradually adding artificial cavities in paper form unti! il reached 226 listed cavities in August 2020. From 2019, the Piedmont and Valle d'Aosta cadastre was transformed into a portai to facilitate cadastral updating operations. The portai allows users to access the cartography and cadastral records of cavities at any time. The cadastre of natural and artificial cavities are now in a single portai, also supplemented by faunistic and bibliographic data, which are undoubtedly useful sources for the study of hypogean environments. Following this update, the rules for entering new cavities have been changed, in particular, the unique alpha-numeric code referring to the type of cavities the ragion and sequential cadastre number has been modified. The cadastral number will be assigned automatically while inserting a new cavity inside the portai. In addition, following the new regulations, the form has been partly reworded to account for the specific ragionai needs. The typologies of artificial cavities were issued by the National Commission for Artificial Cavities SSI in the 80s of the last century and periodically updated, in arder to have a single classification throughout the country, which since 2013 has arso been extended to all of the world. In the cavities' sheets, where existing, topographical surveys have been enclosed. AII data are provided open source (with associated creative commons licence), and downloadable as .GPX, .KML and .CSV. There are currently 600 registered cavities, categorised according to their former use.
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