Educational programmes for the cataloguing of scientific-technological heritage: a fundamental tool for preservation, safeguard and valorisation

The main purpose of educational programmes for cataloguing scientific-technological heritage is the opportunity to experiment the catalogue file for different kinds of technical and scientific goods, in order to share and to make available cognitive data regarding scientific-technological heritage by accessing information in a common database. This will be possible through the use of the PST catalogue file realized by the Central Institute for Cataloguing and Documentation of the Italian Ministry for Cultural Heritage and Activities within the Masters course in Computer cataloguing for the valorisation of cultural heritage of the University of Modena and Reggio Emilia.Cataloguing is the fundamental tool to support preservation and safeguard activities, but also for the study and scientific research, and it can be used as basic scientific tool to prepare educational and indicative material, specifically designed to spread the knowledge of cultural heritage within different publics.Moreover, cataloguing allows museums to show data regarding the information acquisition activity and the management of recorded cultural heritage through publications, conferences and presentations of results.In particular, cataloguing is a useful tool for valorisation and promotion of cultural heritage and territory: for example, it can support cultural heritage educational activities by allowing to design educational paths and cultural-touristic itineraries. The relationship with the territory is therefore fundamental to disclose not only the significance of the materiality of cultural goods but also the intangible dimension of knowledge, techniques and know-how that lays behind cultural heritage.