GIS and DBMS implementation for the development of rural areas of the “one hundred masserie” of Crispiano

This paper describes the creation of a management and control instrument, with the aim of monitoring, evaluating and increasing all of the information about the rural heritage in the “Cen Masserie” area, located in Crispiano (Taranto). The main goal was to fulfill the European directives, promoted in the “Rural Development Programme” (PSR). The directives aim at the protection and promotion of this heritage and can take place thanks to the financial measures of the Region Apulia. An integrated methodological approach was adopted in order to give a basic structure to any kind of territorial project, be it cognitive, metric or structural. Therefore a Geographic Information System (G.I.S) was created in order to edit, store and manage the information about all the rural structures in the “Cento Masserie” area. On a Microsoft Access database a DBMS (database management system) was created to gain an easier management, storage and review of data. The result represents a useful basis and an operative support, that is able to give information in different ways. It will also be at the authorities and different territorial users disposal, in order to functionally recover this heritage from the architectural and structural point of view and also to protect it, preserve it and use it.