The “silken thread”: a TIS/GIS application for the enhancement of a cultural itinerary of Cuneo area

The "Fabbriche Magnifiche Systems" is in Cuneo area, Piedmont Region (Italy), an historical heritage -even still preserved, but often abandoned or crumbling- for silk manufacturing, last testimony of early industrial System in XII Century. Now, Because of public and private resources are lacking, there is a lack of policies and actions for refurbishment interventions of historical memory and of territorial circuits. Fir this purpose, the Authors realized a "Silk Cultural Routes (SCR) TIS (Territorial Information System),a prototype for monitoring, analyzing, evaluating and managing open data repository for decision making to increase the value of this cultural asset. The TIS allow data mining and managing thanks to: 1. Information interoperability, 2) data exchange, 3) immediate and map-based results visualisation, by georeferencing. These strategies are an integral part of policies in support of the Silk Cultural Routes advised by the Council of Cultural Cooperation European in 1987 and institutionalized in 1988, with admission of two Italian reagional routes: one intinerary in Como-Lecco territory and the present case-history. This TIS is expected to develpo ad WebTIS, or as a means of cirtuits dissemination oriented towards different types of users, through a dynamic consultation engine of the database by researchers, students and visitors/tourists by way of intercative stations