Carlo Scarpa

@ Castelvecchio

CATALOGUING AND RESEARCH



For the cataloguing of the drawings belonging to Castelvecchio the ICCD (Istituto Centrale per il Catalogo e la Documentazione) standard has been used. The minimal necessary changes were made to the OA-D entry format: in particular, lists of vocabulary terms were defined to describe both the modern materials of the supports and the specific techniques used in graphic representation and tracing.

The heart of the archive of drawings consists of a database in which graphic collections, drawings, people, works, and bibliography are connected by a dense relational interweaving.

The methods of accessing are multiple, leaving the user the possibility of following predetermined or autonomous search paths.
Simplified access paths allow selections to be made on the basis of the thematic areas of the project, and by lists of supports, instruments, and scale of the drawing, authors, and inclusion within exhibitions.


Simple searches and advanced searches consent access to the database at various levels: from rapid searches for one or more terms, one can move to more advanced searches using booleani criteria and specific fields.
The list of results shows a series of miniatures with descriptions of the drawing, using a style similar to search engines, and permits access to the catalogue entry.

The drawing entry, organised according to two levels of description—synthetic and complete—shows the image in low resolution, highlighting in a frame the link to the verso, if available, of the same sheet.
For each drawing, three size formats are available for on-line consultation: the miniature (100 pixel), the low resolution (250 pixel), and the medium resolution (1000 pixel). It is also possible to consult the original images in high resolution (300 PPI) using an image web server that permits the on-line viewing with levels of enlargement superior to the dimensions of the original.

Access to the database, fully consultable from the Museo di Castelvecchio, is temporarily reduced for Internet users.

Shortly, the archive will also be available in the on-line network of the architecture archives promoted by the Archivio Progetti of the IUAV.