The digitization of architectural document repositories: a method applied to the Andrea Palladio case of study

This paper presents the key steps of the digitazation project of the Digital Palladio project of the Centro Internazionale di Studi di Architettura (CISA) Andrea Palladio. Goals of this project have been the collection, enhancement and accessibility of the whole of visual items documenting the activity of the architect Andrea Palladio, through the digitization and storing of more than 33.000 items. Our work aimed to operate within this framework, in order to define a basic methodology regarding the digitization of the most relevant items of the whole of materials representing the documental system on the Andrea Palladio works that can be summarized in six dimensionally and typologically different documental subsystems: photographs, Palladio’s own hand drawings, modern surveys, archival documents, ancient maps, printed XVI, XVII and XVIII centuries books.