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Yemen-urban management project

Inventory of cultural heritage priority sites

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A. TECHNICAL PROPOSAL SUBMISSION FORM

Reggio Emilia, 28 oct. 1999

To: Ms Maryse Gautier

The World Bank

1818 H Street NW

Washington, DC 20433 - USA

Object: Technical Proposal Urban Management Project,

Republic of Yemen - Credit ID: 55846

Dear Ms Gautier:

We, the undersigned, offer to provide the consulting services

for «Inventory of Cultural Heritage Priority Sites» in accordance

with your Request for Proposal dated September 1, 1999 and our

Proposal. We are hereby submitting our Proposal, which includes

this Technical Proposal and a Financial Proposal sealed under a

separate envelope.

If negotiations are held during the period of validity of the

Proposal, i.e. before 90 days starting from November 1, 1999, we

undertake to negotiate on the basis of the proposed staff. Our

Proposal is binding on us and subject to the modifications

resulting from Contract negotiations.

We understand you are not bound to accept any Proposal you

receive.

We remain,

Yours sincerely,

arch. Francesco Lavecchia

Vice-President

Memar Srl

Via M. Melato, 13

42100 Reggio Emilia - Italy



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EXPLORATIVE MISSION

As suggested by the Client in his “Request for Proposals”, the

representative of Memar Srl, has gone to Sana‟a in the month of

October for the purpose of verifying at the site, with the help of

the referrent of the Yemeni Government Administration, the various

aspects of the mission and “to familiarize himself with the local

customs”.

The mission was carried out by architect Francesco Lavecchia,

Vice-President of Memar Srl and chief of the company‟s “Cultural

Heritage” section, together with engineer Ridha Ben Abdessalem of

Tunis, a company collaborator on the previous Tunisian project.

In Sana‟a the Memar representatives held talks with

representatives of the Yemeni Administration; in particular with

Prof. Yusuf M. Abdulla, in the role of local project liaison and

as President of the General Organization for Antiquities, Museums

and Manuscripts (GOAM) of the Ministry of Culture and Tourism

(MoCT). We were able to probe the following points:

1. The procedures and the timetable for the importation into

Yemen on a temporary basis of instruments owned by the firm

and for the importation into Yemen on a permanent basis of

instruments that will be left to the Client at the end of the

project: it will be necessary to provide GOAMM promptly with

a detailed list.

2. The procedures for entry visas and for moving around the

territory by the firm‟s non-Yemeni consultants: GOAMM will

furnish us with “green cards” after we have communicated the

relative data on our collaborators. The procedures for moving

around the territory of Wadi Hadramawt by the Yemeni

personnel, with special reference to access authorization to

sites of a “religious”, “military” or otherwise “restricted”

character: GOAMM will furnish us with two operatives who will

work with us in Wadi Hadramawt and with contacts with the

offices which issue the various authorizations.

3. Relations with the other Yemeni institutions involved in the project: we have agreed to postpone to a successive date,

however before the start of work, the meeting with the

National Water and Health Authority and the Ministry of

Housing, Construction and Urban Planning (MHCUP)

4. The various aspects of managing relations with the firms and the single Yemeni operatives: we have thought it fit to apply

salary levels which are in conformity with local standards.

5. The existence of documentary sources; in particular: official cartography and aerial photos (coverage, flight altitude,

etc.): we have thought it fit to send GOAMM the detailed list

of all the material requested by us so as to receive an

answer as soon as possible.



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We held important talks with Mr. Brizzi, executive of the World

Bank at Sana‟s, on the results expected from this project.

We met with Mr. Orazio Guanciale to introduce the firm and to

communicate our presence to the Italian Embassy in Sana‟a.

In addition, we met with Mr. Marco Livadiotti, an Italian

businessman who has operated for many years in the tourist

reception and excursion sector in Wadi Hadramawt: his knowledge of

the problems connected with Yemen‟s cultural heritage has been

precious for focusing on certain aspects of the project.

We then went to Wadi Hadramawt where we spent two days traveling

through the entire length of the valley, from Al Hajrayn and Al

Huraydah to Tarim, for about 160 km., visiting many of its towns,

even the minor ones, to get an idea of the size of the landmark

heritage and to be able to verify the condition of the roads and

services in general.

In the valley a lively construction activity is taking place,

fortunately in most cases with the employment of traditional

technology. Unfortunately though, various dwellings recently built

or under construction present, besides the use of an exposed

cement finish, also jarring breaks with traditional housing

typologies which look especially graceless in this context1.

We were also able to verify personally various ways of using

public space by the inhabitants in many towns.

From this mission our Firm has formed a substantially positive

judgment on the feasability of the project which indeed takes

1 Certain buildings made of concrete present “abutments” from the first floor up. At Sayun they say

that this is due to a norm from the beginning of the „90s of the Min. of Public Works and Planning

which reduced developable lots of 400 sq. meters (20x20 per side) to lots of only 225 (15x15). This

explains the success of the concrete blocks, which allow a reduction of perimetal wall thickness,

while the first-floor abutments allow an amplification of the usable surface. In the end, by

changing construction materials and building type it appears possible to increase the interior space

by as much as 30%. The blocks also require less maintenance. Someone pointed out to us that most of

the public buildings make no reference whatsoever to traditional construction materials and types.

Qabr Nabi Allah Hud

Tarim

Sayun Shibam

Al Qatn

Al Hajrayn Al Huraydah

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shape as a “continuation” of the project “Management of the

Cultural Heritage of Tunisia”2 completed during 1998 by our Firm on

behalf of the World Bank.

Consequently, the “comments and suggestions of consultants on the

Terms of reference and on data, services, and facilities to be

provided by the Client”, reported here in the Memar Proposal, may

result as marginal.

THE BASIC PRINCIPLES OF INTERNATIONAL COOPERATION IN THE

MEMAR PROPOSAL

Our Yemen project forsees a division of collaborators into diverse

nationalities for the purpose of responding to the following

objectives in the framework of this type of international

initiative :

1 Selection and training of local personnel. Finalizing the

composition of the Yemeni team through selection interviews with

different local operatives. Assuming that no local company could

provide the complex of professional profiles needed

(archeological, architectural, cartographic, etc.) and that it

would be impossible to seek, select and come to an agreement

with all the Yemeni collaborators, our intention is to complete

a personnel selection before beginning the job, during the

analytical phase.

2 Work integration. Favoring integration through contacts between

the operatives of different nationalities: therefore the

operational units will be formed by Italians, Tunisians and

Yemenis: this work method, while no more difficult, responds

without doubt to the World Bank‟s parameters for the success of

the project.

3 Women workers. Giving preference to female personnel, starting

with the available Tunisian operatives, not only in the areas of

drawing and archiving, but also in the actual cataloguing

(archeological and architectural). This responds to the World

Bank‟s primary aims of favoring the inclusion of women in the

work force in general, and in particular in the area of

innovative technologies. In the Memar team ready to work in

Yemen there are in fact two Tunisian women archeologists whose

task it would be to train and then aid the Yemeni staff in

translating into Arabic the information on the cultural heritage

carried out in English.

2 «The project is similar to the Tunisian one, both of them launched by the World Bank» from:

Culture in Sustainable Development, an Italian Strategy. Min. of Foreign Affairs, Rome 1999; pag.

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4 Qualified work with innovative technologies. The local

collaborators must be involved all the way in the work both in

its scientific and technological aspects. The present

composition of the Memar team, with this kind of high-profile

role entrusted to to the Tunisian operatives, is one of the main

outcomes of the preceding inventory work. The Tunisian

operatives not only know and practice the “Strasbourg standard”,

but are qualified to teach it to their Yemeni colleagues under

the heading of innovative technologies to transform “records and

printed map photos” into the computerized territorial catalogue.

5 The strengthening of the public administration. Some of the

Yemeni operatives who will have participated in developing the

inventory project will be ideal and “natural” candidates to

participate also in the training course for the management of

the data catalogue itself3. The creation or reinforcement of the

Inventory Office is one of the most important outcomes of

heritage inventory. The Inventory Office, with resources to

invest in the knowledge of its own heritage, is a guarantee of

genuine development in full autonomy.

THE WORK GROUP

At the end of the mission, on the basis of what we have seen and

heard, we are convinced of the worth of the team Memar is able to

provide for the job.

1. The experience of MEMAR and of its technical consultants. For the description of the single work experiences we refer you to

the team description: here we would like to stress that this

group has been working together since 1988 in development

important projects on the domestic and international scene

amounting to a total value of U.S. $20 million. The firm makes

available an extremely motivated staff. The consultants able to

come to Yemen have been working with us since 1993. And besides

having worked with us in Italy and in Tunisia, they are

currently working as well as Libya, Turkey and Syria on

archeological digs and training courses on monument inventory

and restoration.

2. The presence of Tunisian collaborators. During the mission we noted the importance of speaking directly in Arabic with the

local population. Following in the Proposal we will stress the

role that the Tunisian operatives on Memar‟s staff can play in

the development of the Yemen project, not only regarding the

matter of using Arabic in talks, training course, and the

editing of didattic materials and manuals, but also regarding

3 While the training of Tunisian operatives presently takes place in Italy, by the end of the Yemen project two Yemeni operatives could go to Tunis and remain there for an internship. The Tunisian

authorities informed by us of this possibility have already informally expressed their adherence.



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the Strasbourg inventory methodology, which these operative have

practiced and today are able to teach4.

3. Italian Touring Club d’Italia and Italconsult S.p.A. The two

firms, in different fields, undoubtedly occupy extremely

important positions in their respective sectors: queste two

firms, within the terms the World Bank finds admissable, intend

to associalte themselves iwth Memar in the carrying out of the

project.

The Touring Club can be entrusted with the production of the

ATLAS forseen by the competition, a work which in the project

text assumes the aspect of the Road and Tourist Atlas with a

small tourist guide of Wadi Hadramawt, in the characteristic

style of this firm‟s productions. This prefigures one of the

most important utilizations of the information gathered by us

in the area of the inventory of cultural, archeological and

architectonic heritage of the area. The Touring Club will be

responsible for the task of undertaking in this first stage

an area study, starting with the information gathered in the

field by the project itself, for the touristic exploitation

of the entire district.

Italconsult can be entrusted with the delicate job of

surveying certain archeological and historical sites of the

valley, utilizing of course local personnel. It should be

remembered that this firm has long worked in Yemen and has

executed important infrastructural works.

4. The local team. As for the composition of the team made up of local personnel, subsequent talks we have held we have come to

the conclusion that it will be necessary to proceed with a

public announcement in the press where the qualifications

required of the candidates can be listed: diplomas, age limit,

availability to work for some months in Wadi Hadramawt. The

firm, after having examined the applications received, reserves

the privilege of calling for interview those candidates it

considers fit for the job. Those chosen will be paid on a

monthly basis a salary adequate to the commitment and equivalent

to that of a secondary school teacher; in addition, they will

receive a daily allowance for lodgings in Sayun, meals and minor

expenses. The firm will provide for their professional training

in the classroom and in the field, for their technological

outfitting (photocamera, PC, etc.) and for their means of

transportation.

4 In fact, during the development of the Tunisian projects, Memar prepared a dozen local operatives

with whom the Italians carried out the work first in the field and then in the office, working

shoulder to shoulder for about a year. We forsee the participation of three Tunisian operatives: two

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A SYNTHESIS OF THE MEMAR PROPOSAL

At the end of our mission in Yemen, on the basis of what the World

Bank has requested and and what the Yemenis have expressed in our

talks, the MEMAR proposal is broken down in the following pages

according to the “index” predisposed by the Client. We here give a

brief synthesis5 of it.

The project, which is to be undertaken throughout the Wadi

Hadramawt territory, has the aim of making an organic inventory of

sites, complexes and monuments. The sites to be indexed are those

with monuments that figure on the “cultural heritage list of Wadi

Hadramawt”, to be prepared by consultants at the start of work,

beginning with documentary sources and existing studies, before

sending teams into the field.6

Since no set of protection laws as yet exists in Yemen7, it will be

necessary to proceed directly with the identification of the

entire historical-artistic heritage, restricted to Wadi Hadramawt,

to call to the attention of the competent authorities. 8

It will then be necessary to predispose and experiment, in

agreement with the Client and with the support of internationally

recognized experts in the regional and local culture, a

“scientifically” correct methodology consistent with the

“administrative” objectives to be reached.

It will be necessary to identify the cultural, archeological and

architectural territorial heritage, made up of “single” monuments,

5 “The objective of the assignment is to set up the framework and methodology of a Cultural Heritage

inventory for Yemen which will be based on the ICOMOS text principles for the recording of

Monuments, Groups of Buildings and Sites. The inventory will be designed in accordance with the

Yemeni environment and a pilot study will be launched in a limited area of the country. The

assignment will specifically include the training of local Yemeni professionals for the recording of

sites and, ultimately, for the management and expansion of the inventory. More details on the

services are provided in the attached Terms of Reference”.5 In: Request for Proposals Yemen – Urban

Management; 1 oct. 1999, World Bank.

6 In Tunisia, through a survey of the country‟s entire territory, the project had the aim of

reconstructing the actual state of landmarks protected from 1886 to 1960 by about 35 state laws;

after which the Inventory Office of the National Heritage Institute will be able to continue to:

1. identify the cultural heritage to protect,

2. predispose the documentation (records, photos and surveys) with the historical-artistic

motivation that justify the protection law.

7 “Recording adheres to the principles of providing detailed information on the building or site: accurate location; form and dimensions; materials; building techniques; significance; origin and

date; ownership; history of uses and changes; history of maintenance and repair, condition

assessment of dangers. Recording should be undertaken to an appropriate level of details in order

to provide a permanent record of all monuments, groups of buildings and sites that are to be

destroyed or altered in any way, or that are at risk from natural events or human activities. At

present, no national registry exists in Yemen”. World Bank.

8 Already existing information in Yemen. To identify the entire cultural heritage of Wadi Hadrawat it will be necessary to use all the existing work (research, indexing, photos, surveys, cartographies),

including it within the standard suggested by the Client in the “Request for Proposal”s and utilized

by the Yemen project proposed by Memar. Not one single existing intraining must be “lost”.



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aggregates of “complexes” or monuments stratified in “ancient

cities”. In any case, from the single isolated monument to the

cities, we intend to use, in the documentation with records,

surveys and photos, the concept of “site”as a statistical unit

necessary for comprehending and describing the cultural

territorial heritage.

THE ARCHEOLOGICAL SITE CATALOGUE

We will proceed with the recording of known archeological sites by

means of the “SITE” record. The complexes present will be

catalogued using the “COMPLEX” record and the monuments using the

“MONUMENT” record.

Possible “risk” areas, where GOAMM signals the existence of sites

to be studied, will be highlighted in the cartography with

appropriate symbols and recorded in a special way.

In this case a photographic documentation will be effected and a

sketch from the film view will be edited. Any surveys will be

expeditiously retrieved and updated.

All the information (records, photos and surveys) will be

computerized and correlated with appropriate codes.

THE HISTORICAL SITE CATALOGUE

The historical site heritage to be identified is made up of

“single” monuments (elementary sites) or aggregates in nuclei or

“ancient cities” (articulated sites).

The study will tend to collocate the historical sites in their

natural and agricultural context, highlighting the disturbances

caused by construction and recent kinds of production, most of the

time not in keeping because of construction materials, color and

forms. The availability of aerial filmings shot in different

periods will offer the chance of making very useful comparisons,

as for example, the procedures, in different periods, of modern

constructions surrounding the ancient cities9.

For each site we will begin with a reconstruction of the perimeter

of its urban areas and, within it, a distinction will be made

between the recent fabric and the ancient fabric. The whole will

be described using the “SITE” record.

Within each “site” the «monumental building10 and the “specialized

building”11 will be highlighted: these are the only two types of

9 “The success of an inventory depends on linking it with physical and land use planning processes.

The inventory provides information on cultural heritage sites for administrators and planners at

national, regional, and local levels so that they are able to make informed planning and development

control policies and decisions. It creates an awareness of private developers to the presence of

cultural resources within or adjacent to new construction projects, thereby facilitating management

and control of construction works, and of changes to the cultural heritage”. World Bank.

10 Buildings of particular artistic-architectural or historic-environmental value.

11 «Specialized Construction»: urban walls, mosques, cemeteries, castles, blockhouses, towers,

etc.mura urbane, moschee, cimiteri, castelli, fortini, torri, etc.



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buildings which will be documented using the “MONUMENT” record or

the “COMPLEX record”12. In brief descriptions will be made:

1. With SITE records:

“Ancient cities”

small extra-urban nuclei

2. With MONUMENT and COMPLEX records:

“specialized” constructions

“monumental” constructions.

Even in this case we will effect a photographic documentation and

edit a sketch from the film view. Any sites surveys will be

expeditiously retrieved and updated.

All the information (records, photos and surveys) will be

computerized and correlated with appropriate codes.

POLICIES FOR THE SAFEGUARD AND EXPLOITATION OF SITES AND

MONUMENTS

In this manner we will lay the foundations for accomplishing two

differing but interrelated policies for safeguarding and

exploiting the heritage landmarks:

1. It will be possible to plan interventions for the public

maintenance and restoration of specialized and monumental

buildings. It must be remembered that the buildings in question

are prevalently public property or, in case of necessity,

acquirable to the public heritage (palaces, mosques, minarets,

cemeteries, city walls, forts, archeological monuments,

archeological sites, etc.). This policy requires the

simultaneous presence of two factors: a certain amount of

easily quantifiable economic resources and a nucleus of local

operatives (prepared, motivated and equipped) organized in the

Inventory Office.

2. It will be possible to activate policies for safeguarding

communities and nuclei, that is for the entire territory of

Wadi Hadramawt by utilizing the information gathered by the

project as if it were an urbanistic plan of the entire district

to incentivate maintenance interventions and direct new

construction.

MAINTENANCE

The traditional construction in the entire area, more than others,

involves a continuous process of ordinary maintenance. In the case

of extraordinary maintenance interventions, the danger of meddling

12 “The inventory process is closely related to the recording of individual monuments and groups of

buildings and sites. Recording is the captured information which describes the physical

configuration, the conditions and the use of the monuments, groups of buildings and sites, at points

in time, and is an essential part of the conservation process”. World Bank.



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is objectively very high as it is for recent buildings or for

those of a traditional type that are presently under construction13.

Also in this case the existence of the Inventory Office is

required, as above designated. And also in this case the economic

resources to make available annually are easily definable.

NEW CONSTRUCTION

Important: the study must insert every community and nucleus in

its natural and agricultural context by the identification of an

initial proposal of an area of respect, starting with the “visual

cone” perceivable by the condition of the access roads to the

nucleus.

In these areas we can “negotiate” a partial or total

constructibility: we can accept traditional buildings, while

“modern buildings” can be built where they will cause the least

disturbance. It is a matter of studying and putting into practice

a policy of incentives regarding the local communities to be

worked out on an instance by instance basis.

In this case it will be necessary to proceed with a couple of

experiments before defining the model and from there determining

average costs.

MAIN WORK STAGES

The management of cultural landmarks spread over a vast territorial

area requires the creation of an appropriate information system for

the architectural, archeological and artistic heritage: it requires

a database in both printed and computerized form, which contains all

the data already present in a variety of archives, as well as the

other data which must be integrated once it has been collected in

the field. For the collection of new data and the reconversion of

the existing data, the use of a scientific methodology is

recommended, one which is recognized at an international level such

as that established by the Council of Europe in Strasbourg14 for the

inventory of architectural heritage, suitably integrated with the

aim of completely satisfying those needs which are relative to the

specific situation of the Yemen heritage.

A state archive of this cultural heritage implies the presence of

qualified local personnel who are able, first of all, to produce

the cultural heritage catalogue, and afterwards to manage this

considerable amount of information, including daily updates.

13 We were able to examine in detail a couple of buildings presently under construction that used

traditional technologies. Speaking with the employees present we noted the widespread use of

inserting variants; for example: iron I-beams in place of wooden beams and zinc-plated pipes in

place of rafters. We visited a brick and cement factory and noted athe existence of many micro-firms

producing cement blocks.

14 This refers particularly to the “Recommendation nR (95) 3, of the Committee of Ministers of the

Council of Europe”.



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This qualified staff can only partly be found in the State

Administration offices (“INVENTORY OFFICE”): in this case it will

also be necessary to suitably train personnel from small companies

and freelance specialists who will be able to produce, on a yearly

basis, all the documentary work needed for the cultural heritage

over the whole territory.

Both of these groups (for a total of 20 operatives, of whom 15 full-

time) can participate in the data collection operations in the

field, having received the same professional training which is

considered “operational”.15

The project, which for the moment we will refer to as an

“Information System for cultural heritage management” is divided

into two parts which are connected by function but with two separate

time phases :

CONSULTANCY: the coordination phase with the Client, needed to

define the methodology for the printed and computerized inventory,

through the definition of the operational phases, with the precise

identification of training content, based also on the professional

profile of the personnel involved in the collection and management

of the information.

TRAINING: the second phase involves the execution of the training

course for “cultural assets operatives” which will involve

theoretical lessons in the classroom and practical exercises in the

field.

Identification of the cultural heritage to be catalogued on the

basis of existing documentation within the archives of the State

Administration. A particular training effort will be required in

order to consult and evaluate correctly the information found in the

archives.

Creation of a Territorial Information System.

The information system will be created over several phases:

Identification of the territory to be catalogued.

Definition of the territorial structure and the objects contained

therein to be catalogued.

Survey of documentary sources.

Preliminary activity within the archives to identify the

bibliographic, cartographic and photographic sources needed for

the identification of the assets included in the cataloguing

project and the compilation and description of the assets

themselves.

15 Later, if a INVENTORY OFFICE does not already exist or the existing one needs to be strengthened, a

small group (2-3 operatives) could receive further professional training in managerial subjects.



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Territorial cataloguing project.

Operational program required in terms of human resources, equipment

and time.

Completion of the compilation of the core data and the photographic

and/or graphic documentation through field reconnaissance.

Photographic documentation.

The photographic documentation of the current state of the assets

will be done in B/W and/or colour.

All the data gathered during the cataloguing phase are connected and

made available in oriented cartographies.

Graphic documentation.

Depending on the type of project, the level of documentation will be

defined: simple drawings may be required to support the photographic

documentation, or detailed scale surveys may be carried out.

Topographic Positioning.

Geo-referenced positioning of the objects surveyed according to the

level of detail of the chosen cartography.

Printed documentation.

Collection, using a printed model, of the information on the assets

to be catalogued, in part from documentary sources and in part from

the field.

Creation of a paper archive.

The data is collected and organised in records within the

administrative divisions of the territory to be catalogued.

The operations will be carried out at the headquarters of the Client

and will involve the addition of the printed record core data in the

database. The work involved will require the guidance and control of

the data addition process.

Creation of computerized archives.

All the printed material will immediately be included in the

computerized support, divided by archive: core data, photos

(historical and aerial documentation), cartography (present and

historic), cadastres and bibliographies.



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B. FIRM’S REFERENCES

Founded in 1989, MEMAR SIT Srl merged with MEMAR Srl at the end of

1998. The new company has maintained the internal division “SIT -

Sistemi Informativi Territoriali”.

The company has been operating in the field of computerized

cataloguing of cultural heritage since 1990, organising campaigns

over a wide area, elaborating data entry programs and management

tools as well as testing computerized database sheets; the company

also operates in the sector of raster and vectorial cartography

and numeric image treatment.

The merger of the three companies resulted in the following:

DATA ACQUISITION SECTOR SIT SECTOR

RECORDS SECTOR

data entry

ocr/icr

optical recognition

territorial computer

systems

cataloguing of cultural

landmarks

digital acquisition of

photographic images

optic and printed

record management

warehouse

disbursement

management

Our present structure consists of a Headquarters and two operative

Branches:

LEGAL HEADQUARTERS: located in Reggio Emilia on Via Tedeschi

10/12, it is the headquarters of the following operational

offices:

Administrative direction

Human Resource direction

Organization

Operational sections

At this site 48 persons are currently employed.

BOLOGNA BRANCH: located on Via Fratelli Carpigiani 8 and Via del

Selciatore 10, it houses the following offices:

Branch management


In this branch a total of 34 persons are employed

AREZZO BRANCH: located on Via G. Ferraris 234, it houses the

following offices:

Branch management


In this branch a total of 22 persons are employed.



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RAVENNA BRANCH: located on Via Bondi 40, in the Bassette area, it houses the following offices:

Branch management


In this branch a total of 3 persons are employed.

THE MEMAR TEAM

Technical/managerial personnel The work team is without doubt qualified for its commitment on a

domestic as well as international level in the field of

territorial inventory. Here we include only professional

qualifications, the role in the project, and highlights of

domestic and international experience, while for a more detailed

account of the individual consultants see their Resumés.

Regular Staff

1. Francesco Lavecchia16 ... architect urbanist/ General Manager

2. Federico Ranuzzi17 ....... record catalogue expert/ database

3. Mario Guglielmo18 graduate in cultural heritage/ archiving

4. Luigi Maggioletti19 ...... photographer/ digital images

5. Marco Maranesi20 . ....... topographer/ GIS 16 In Italy: since 1980, without interruption, has worked with the Min. for Landmarks and Cultural

Activities.

Internationally: Participation in the Nantes Convention organized by the Council of Europe on the

theme “Architectural heritage”: inventory and documentation methods in Europe // General Manager of

the research Project on the unified inventory between Italy-France-England in the IMACT 2 program

for the European Community del Progetto (1993) // Consultant for the Central Institute for Catalogue

and Documentation (Italy) and for the Inventory (France) for unifying the records of the two

institutions (1993) // General Manager del Project “Management of the cultural heritage of

Tunisia”(1998).

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In Italy: since 1988, without interruption, has worked with the Min. for Landmarks and Cultural

Activities.

Internationally: Participation in the consultancy at the Central Institute for Catalogue and

Documentation-Italy and at the Inventory-France to unify the records of the two institutions (1993)

// Participation in the Project “Management of the cultural heritage of Tunisia” as a GIS expert

(1998).

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Activities.

Internationally: Participation in consultancy at the Central Institute for Catalogue and

Documentation-Italy and at the Inventory-France to unify the records of the two institutions (1993)

// Participation in the Project “Management of the cultural heritage of Tunisia” as a an expert in

database management (1998).

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Activities.

Internationally: Participation in the the Project “Management of the cultural heritage of Tunisia”

as a an expert in digital images (1998).

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as an expert in digital images (1998).



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6. Maria Codeluppi . ....... logistical support

Consultants

7. Mathieu Julien21 . ....... architect/ expeditionary survey and GPS

8. Nicola Santopuoli22 ..... architect/ architecture documentation 9. Annalisa Terenziani23 .... ........... graphics

10.Oufa Ben Slimane24 ..... archeologist/ manuals and norms in

Arabic

11. Ghenoua Lahbib . ....... archeologist/ database in Arabic

12. Ridha Ben Abdessalem25 .. engineer/ basic computer technology

13. Stéphane Niepceron26 .... ........... editing

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Internationally: Participation in the the Project “Management of the cultural heritage of

Tunisia” as a an expert in digital images and cataloguer of historical landmarks (1998).

22

In Italy: since 1988, without interruption, has worked with the Min. for Landmarks and Cultural Activities.


as an architect (1998).

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24


as a an expert in digital images and cataloguer of archeological landmarks (1998).

25


26




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Relevant Services Carried Out in the Last Five Years

That Best Illustrate Qualifications

Assignment Name:

OLD PHOTOGRAPHIC

COLLECTIONS

Country: ITALY

Location within

Country:

Professional Staff

Provided by Your

Firm/Entity (profiles):

PHOTOGRAPHER

COMPUTER EXPERTS

GRAPHIC ILLUSTRATORS

Name of Client: ICCD of the Min. for

Cultural Heritage and

Activities

N. of Staff:

4

Address: N. of Staff-Months;

Duration of Assignment:

Start Date

(Month/Year):

1998

Completion Date

(Month/Year):

1999

Approx. Value of

Services (in Current

US$): 100,000

Name of Associated

Consultants, If

Any:

N. of Months of

Professional Staff

Provided by Associated

Consultants:

Name of Senior

Staff:

FRANCESCO LAVECCHIA

General manager – project

planner

Narrative

Description of

Project:

digitalization of 4

historic collections for a

total of 10,000 negatives,

creation of a data bank of

« historic photo records »

and of a CD Rom.

Description of

Actual Services

Provided by Your

Staff:

computerization of

negatives, creation of a

data bank and a CD ROM

Firm‟s Name…………………………………



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MEMAR SIT SRL

Assignment Name: MANAGEMENT OF THE CULTURAL

HERITAGE OF TUNISIA

Country: TUNISIA

Location within Country: the entire country

Professional Staff

Provided by Your


MARIO GUGLIELMO

Topographer

FEDERICO RANUZZI

Database expert

MARCO MARANESI

GIS expert

LUIGI MAGGIOLETTI

Image expert

Name of Client: World Bank

N. of Staff:

4

Address:

N. of Staff-Months;


40

Start Date

(Month/Year):

September 1997

Completion Date

(Month/Year):

December 1998

Approx. Value of Services

(in Current US$):

$ 500,000

Name of Associated Consultants, If Any:

N. of Months of

Professional Staff


Consultants:

Name of Senior Staff:

Francesco LAVECCHIA: General Manager – Progect planner

Narrative Description of Project:

setup of a first nucleus of computerized data on the historic and

archeological heritage of Tunisia, starting with a survey of about 1,000

monuments located throughout the country, for the purpose of verifying

their states of conservation. The catalogue standards applied are those

established by the Council of Europe.

Description of Actual Services Provided by Your Staff:

training, project assistance, testing and implementation of data bank,

creation of GIS software.

Firm‟s Name…………………………………



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MEMAR SIT SRL

Assignment Name: INVENTORY OF THE CULTURAL

HERITAGE OF THE MARCHE REGION

Country: ITALY

Location within Country: REGIONE MARCHE

Professional Staff

Provided by Your


ART HISORIAN

COMPUTER EXPERT

PHOTOGRAPHER

ARCHITECT

PROFESSOR

Name of Client: SUPERINTENDENCE OF THE

MARCHE, DIOCESE OF ANCONA, CULTURAL DIVISION

OF THE MARCHE REGION

N. of Staff:

5

Address:

N. of Staff-Months;


75

Start Date

(Month/Year):

1992

Completion Date

(Month/Year):

1994


(in Current US$):

$ 625,000


BENI SRL - MACERATA (60%)

N. of Months of

Professional Staff


Consultants:


Mauro COMPAGNUCCI, coordinator

Carlo FERRARI, chief of the architectural section of MEMAR SIT

Francesco LAVECCHIA : General Manager – Project planner


inventory of various provinces by means of the creation of :

record “A” in printed and digitalized form – Mobile object records in

printed and digitalized form– Archeological artifact records in printed

and digitalized form – Photographic documentation- Cartography.


computerized catalogue and graphic and photographic documentation.

Firm‟s..Name…………………………………



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MEMAR SRL

Assignment Name: BASIS FOR THE CARTOGRAPHIC

LOCATION OF CULTURAL HERITAGE DATA.

Country: ITALY

Location within Country: REGGIO EMILIA

Professional Staff

Provided by Your


ARCHITECTS

GRAPHIC ARTIST

CARTOGRAPHER

Name of Client: ITALIAN MINISTRY OF CULTURAL

HERITAGE

N. of Staff:

5

Address:

N. of Staff-Months;


155

Start Date

(Month/Year):

1992

Completion Date

(Month/Year):

1995


(in Current US$):

$ 375,000


N. of Months of

Professional Staff


Consultants:


Carlo FERRARI : General Manager

Francesco LAVECCHIA : Project planner


creation of original vectorial cartography deriving from photo-

interpretation – creation of straigthened aerieal photos.


providing of software with computer data for creating the project.

Firm‟s..Name…………………………………



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MEMAR SRL

Assignment Name: PRODUCTION OF SUPPORT-

SOFTWARE WITHIN THE MAIN DESC SOFTWARE

Country: ITALY

Location within Country:

Professional Staff

Provided by Your


COMPUTER EXPERT

ARCHITECT

Name of Client: ITALIAN CULTURAL HERITAGE

MINISTRY

N. of Staff:

3

Address:

N. of Staff-Months;


35

Start Date

(Month/Year):

1994

Completion Date

(Month/Year):

1997


(in Current US$):

$ 175.000


N. of Months of

Professional Staff


Consultants:


Francesco LAVECCHIA: Project planner - General Manager


1994 - DESC PHOTO ARCHIVE RECORD (Photo archive management)

1994 - DESC - PROJECT ARCHIVE (Data archive management)

1995 - DESC – CONTROLS (Data archive control system)

1995 - DESC 1.4.1. – Creation of an updated version of A-OA-RA records

1996 - DESC - DATA MANAGER 1.4.1. (Management system of data archive

updating)

1997 - DESC 1.4.1. – Creation of ARCHEOLOGICAL SITE record

Description of Actual Services Provided by Your Staff::

Creation and supply of software.

Firm‟s..Name…………………………………



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MEMAR SRL

Assignment Name: CREATION OF SPECIALIZED

COMPUTERIZED RECORDS

Country: ITALY


Professional Staff

Provided by Your


COMPUTER EXPERT

ARCHITECT

Name of Client: ITALIAN CULTURAL HERITAGE

MINISTRY

N. of Staff:

3

Address:

N. of Staff-Months;


30

Start Date

(Month/Year):

1995

Completion Date

(Month/Year):

1996


(in Current US$):

$ 65,000


N. of Months of

Professional Staff


Consultants:


Francesco LAVECCHIA: Project planner - General Manager


1995 - TPA - EVENTS Inventory of data concerning thefts of mobile

artifacts.

1995 - PHOTO ARCHIVE INDEX 2 Management of photo archive and of related

legends.

1996 - FKO INDEX Anthropological cataloguing.



Firm‟s..Name…………………………………



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MEMAR SRL

Assignment Name: PRODUCTION OF SUPPORT-

SOFTWARE WITHIN MAIN DESC SOFTWARE

Country:


Professional Staff

Provided by Your


COMPUTER EXPERT

ARCHITECT

Name of Client: CAS-MED C 066 (TRAINING OF

SPECIALIST FOR COMPUTERIZED CATALOGUE OF

FIXED CULTURAL LANDMARKS) AND C.I.R.P.S.

(INTER-UNIVERSITY CENTER FOR RESEARCH ON

DEVELOPING COUNTRIES).

N. of Staff:

2

Address:

N. of Staff-Months;


0.25

Start Date

(Month/Year):

1995

Completion Date

(Month/Year):

1995


(in Current US$):

$ 1,000


N. of Months of

Professional Staff


Consultants:



1995 - DESC – “A” record (architecture) Creation of English version of

software, used in Syria and in Turkey in projects involving international

cooperation.



Firm‟s..Name…………………………………



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C. MEMAR’S COMMENTS AND SUGGESTIONS

ON THE TERMS OF REFERENCE AND ON DATA, SERVICES

AND FACILITIES TO BE PROVIDED

BY THE CLIENT.

On the Terms of Reference:

1. THE LANGUAGE PROBLEM27. The client is advised, as far the

languages to be utilized are concerned - aside from the use of

English for all official acts (such as progress reports, the final

report, all correspondence) and in part the programming of

software - to involve the use of Arabic as regards certain final

products, such as the illustrative technical-scientific report and

the record catalogue text.

2. THE DURATION OF THE PROJECT. In our opinion, on the basis of

our Tunisian experience, the work execution period cannot be less

than 12 months. In particular: 3 months for the selection and

training of personnel, 2 months for preparing the dossiers, 4

months on site, 3 months for turning over the product material to

the technical direction. Note carefully: hopefully the preparation

of the dossiers, to be carried out in the office, will fall during

the months of July and August, which in that area would be

unsuitable for field work.

April May June July Aug Sept Oct Nov Dec Jan Feb Mar

Selectio

n of

personne

l

Training

of

personne

l

Training

of

personne

l

Dossi

er

Dossi

er

field field field field Print

And

archi

ve

Print

and

Archi

ve

Print

and

Archiv

e

3. THE EQUIPMENT TO LEAVE WITH THE CLIENT AT THE END OF THE

PROJECT. At least 25 Yemeni operatives should be trained, for

which PC‟s, printers, scanners, photographic equipment,

compasses and GPS‟s will be necessary (20 full-time and 5 part-

time). At the end of the project those who have worked

diligently will be able to receive, together with their pay,

the equipment used in the project so they can continue to work

toward completing the country‟s cultural heritage catalogue as

well as working for other clients. Memar would turn over the

equipment on condition that for a period of 5 years it could

not be resold to third parties, at the end of which time it

could be definitively ceded. At least two of the seven

operatives can be employed by the client for setting up the

Inventory Office : in that case the equipment intended for

these two should go to forming that office‟s stock in a

quantity sufficient for conserving, consulting and implementing

27 Regarding language: the district under study is termed, in the World Bank‟s call for bids, Wadi

Hadramawt, while an Italian guide calls it Uadi Hadramat. English language documents of the Yemeni

government use the term we too would like to use: Wadi Hadhramout.



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the initial data.

On the data, services, and facilities to be provided by

the Client

To accomplish this project in all its phases it is indispensable

that the Client furnish the team with maximum aid in the various

phases. In particular:

1. Help with the temporary importation into Yemen of the company‟s

instruments.

2. Help with the definitive importation of equipment which will be

left to the Client at the end of the project.

3. Authorizations for the company‟s European consultants to move

around freely inside Yemeni territory

4. Authorizations for the local personnel to move around freely

inside Yemeni territory, in particular authorization for access

to sites designated as “religious”.

5. Authorizations for the Yemeni personnel to use the company‟s

equipment.

6. Coordination with other Yemeni institutions involved in the

project : contact and level of formality procedures (the need

for “letters of introduction”, etc.).

7. Help in selecting local personnel.

8. Availability for consultation and reproduction of official maps

in raster form; in particular: map summaries, single maps,

etc.) and aerial photos (cover, flight altitude, etc.)

9. Availability for the consultation and reproduction of all

documentary sources.

10. Availability for the consultation and reproduction of preceding studies and research (reports, records, photos, surveys, maps)

on Wadi Hadramawt, for their utilization and reconversion into

the project standards.



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D. DESCRIPTION OF THE METHODOLOGY

AND WORK PLAN FOR PERFORMING

THE ASSIGNMENT

THE AGREED PROTOCOL BETWEEN ITALY AND THE WORLD BANK

AND THE PILOT PROJECT IN TUNISIA

It was in the summer of 1997 that the World Bank‟s President Mr.

James Wolfenshon aimed the policies of his organization in

developing countries no longer just toward great infrastructural

projects, but also toward initiatives for the conservation and

exploitation of cultural landmarks, in the belief that “the

comeback of a nation, its healing and economic revival also pass

through the exploitation, not only for the purposes of tourism, of

its historical and cultural heritage”.

Italy has been singled out as a technological partner due to its

specific skills in the field of restoration and scientific

inventory of cultural landmarks, in addition to its role as

financial partner, as in the case of its Cultural Heritage

Management in Tunisia. The World Bank has therefore underwritten

with Italy a true protocol agreement to activate its

collaboration.

In 1998 the “CULTURAL HERITAGE MANAGEMENT OF TUNISIA” project was

carried out with the resources made available by the World Bank

and the Italian Government, through its Ministry of Foreign

Affairs-Cooperation and Development.

It may be defined as a “pilot” project in the context of the World

Bank‟s new spending strategies and its delineation of a strategic

collaboration with countries, like Italy, qualified on the

scientific and economic level, inasmuch as this was its first

experience of exclusive heritage inventory.

It was a project that represented an initial inventory of cultural

landmarks. In creating this archive, first in print and later in

computerized form, Tunisia, with the help of the World Bank and

Italy, equipped itself with a full-fledged territorial

informational system for its protected cultural landmarks,

installed on an easy-to-use station and with specially designed

software to implement its data.

The work was carried out by Tunisian high school and university

graduates following upon a preparatory training course in the

classroom, completed in the field with the help of Italian

experts. The two groups worked in strict coordination with a

continual exchange of professional experience and across-the-

boards integration. The project was carried out with this type of



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organization for the precise purpose of favoring integration

through contacts among diverse nationalities. This work method

corresponded perfectly to the expectations of the Client, i.e. the

World Bank, the Italian Ministry of Foreign Affairs and the

Tunisian Ministry of Culture.

All the work, from this viewpoint, may be considered a true and

proper training project of about ten local operatives. The

important thing is that there now exist Tunisian and Italian

operatives capable of speaking the same scientific and operational

“language” that they have the capacity to work together in

teaching others28.

THE ROLE OF THE COUNCIL OF EUROPE

IN CULTURAL HERITAGE INVENTORY

Since the late 1980s the Council of Europe has developed, with the

support of INVENTAIRE (France), RCHME (England), ICCD (Italy) and

other European institutions, a series of methods for operating

with the “core data index” in the field of cultural heritage

documentation.

World Bank experts have forseen, in predisposing the project of

inventory the cultural heritage of Tunisia (the same chosen in in

Yemen), that the work should be accomplished through the use of

scientific methodologies defined in Strasbourg by the Council of

Europe. This initial choice has been of strategic importance

inasmuch as the on-site work has made it possible to test the

validity of the method over a vast area through the gathering of a

significant quantity of data.

The introduction, then, of an international method in cultural

heritage inventory has determined that the information has a

greater “value” in that it can be easily exchanged, whether in

traditional fashion or by the use of innovative technologies: in

this way the information can be utilized by a vaster public of

scholars and economic operatives, as in the case of specialized

publishing and cultural tourism.29

28 In this way a further result of extreme interest is also obtained: clearcut professional figures

have been identified and training modules and teaching materials have been planned and effected for

young high school and university graduates without any specific preparation in the inventory sector.

During the “Management of the cultural heritage of Tunisia” project training modules were used that

taught participants to file, photograph, survey and archive in both printed and computerized

formats. These modules are integrally reproducible for possible riutilization, on condition that the

same scientific and operational methodology is used.

29 “The objective of an inventory is to present basic data on cultural heritage sites in a

standardized format which can be easily retrieved, maintained and expanded over time”.



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THE METHODOLOGY OF THE COUNCIL OF EUROPE

AND THE ORIENTATION OF ICOMOS

This proposal contains a detailed description of the operational

methodology and a draft of an inventory model to use (the record

and norm structure) to be able to define without any

misunderstanding the economic estimate, which which will allow the

Client to evaluate with perfect clarity the relationship between

the operational method, the inventory model and the resources

necessary for carrying out the job. In function of these

exigencies of the GOAMM and of indications of the letter of

invitation, the inventory method for Yemen requires a record

proposal that respects the Council of Europe‟s model and, at the

same time, that of ICOMOS. Consequently, all its elements must be

defined in detail, with the possibility of being modified during

the “negotiating” phase.

The record structure presented for admission to the bid organized

by the World Bank has been set forth according to the indications

contained in the letter of invitation:

indications of the GOAMM,

“minimal record of historical monuments and buildings of

architectural heritage” and “minimal record for archeological

sites” of the Council of Europe,30

ICOMOS norms.31

The Council of Europe first edited a MONUMENT record and then a

SITE record.

30

The norms for compiling records for monument documentation are in:

“Core data index to historic buildings and monuments of the architectural heritage”

Recommendation R (95) 3 of the Committee of Ministers of the Council of Europe to member

States on coordinating documentation methods and systems related to historic buildings and

monuments of the architectural heritage.

The norms for compiling records for site documentation are in:

“Documenting the Cultural Heritage, 1998”. Edited by Robin Thornes and John Bold

31

ICOMOS norms:

International Council on Monuments and Sites.



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1st level Site

2nd level Monument Monument

ICOMOS suggests describing the site in terms of its morphological

aspects, vegetation and physical and anthropological risks. ICOMOS

further introduces the basic concept of COMPLEX for correctly

defining the complex structure of building sites.

1st level Site

2nd level Complex

3rd level

Monument Monument

“Following the Council of Europe recommendations, the baseline

information furnished by an inventory of cultural heritage would

include:

• Name of the site (location)

• Cartographic reference



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• Period of occupation and associated features for each period

• Topographic situation

• Present site condition

• Present disturbances affecting the site

• Inventory rating (classification)

• Type and level of threat of destruction

• Bibliographical reference

• Detailed photographs to be taken.

With the exception of the name of the site, its documentation,

and bibliographic references, all the other information can be

coded. At a later stage, additional information may be added

where available”.

To be able to create a computerized system that is simple in its

functioning and updating, it is necessary to develop traditional

type printed archives and an alphanumerical data bank linked to a

magnetic aid which contains all the images in numerical form: the

electronic information managed by a simple personal computer

connected to a scanner and a printer.

Concretely, the introduction of computers in the cartographic

process has also provoked a non-negligible change in products,

since the need for computerized data management has made it

indispensable to uniformize information according to criteria that

produce standard results.

The new technologies have made it possible to significantly

innovate the section since they have started a process of

continuous normalization of scientific language, both in the

editing phase of the record and in the control phase, facilitating

at every moment the correction and integration of a large amount

of data.

All this is possible if most of the record fields to be compiled

for information gathering are edited using “control” words, and

only certain fields will be edited “freely”.

We proceed through the utilization of the SITE record, taken from

the Council of Europe‟s model, adapted to “register” all the

cultural objects present in the territory (complexes and all

monuments within sites). In additon, data are rigorously

uniformized and normalized, and exact identification of simple and

compound objects, with the identification of the links among

diverse objects.

To make possible an automatic treatment of data after the drawing

up of the printed models, it is necessary to structure the

information rigorously, distributing it in adequate paragraphs,

fields and sub-fields according to the compilation norms of the

Council of Europe, constantly verifying the accuracy of

terminology through the use of code words.



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Harmonizing methodologies and training

local operatives

The utilization of a single scientific standard makes it possible

to identify and consolidate clearcut professional figures, with

partly traditional and partly new qualifications. To favor

organizing the knowledge of a cultural heritage with rapid field

operations even when few resources are available, it will be

necessary to gather information in a “normalized” fashion, by

using operational methods and tools that have already been tested

internationally: in this way it will be possible to identify with

certainty the profile of new professional figures and consequently

to make the training process of local personnel effective and

reproducible even in other contexts.

Therefore, after Tunisia the World Bank, in developing its

heritage programs, will be able to anticipate or accompany

inventory projects by continuing to use the same scientific and

operational methodology as a guarantee of uniformity of results,

in the certainty of product cost, and for the diffusion of new

professional figures in the entire area.

The Tunisian experience has shown how necessary it is to create a

detailed model in order to operate successfully in such a relevant

sector for the country. Everything that has been set in motion for

the development of that project can be considered a true resource

and a scientifically operational model that can be applied in

other places as well, through the training of local operatives and

through aid to field inventory work. In extreme synthesis the

operational model is articulated in the following manner:

“operational” training of local personnel, supplied with

adequate equipment, for the creation of cultural heritage

inventory,

creation of a “normalized” database, a BDD of the cultural

heritage in both printed and electronic form,

“management” training for the creation of the INVENTORY

OFFICE, staring with the local personnel that participated in the

inventory work.



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THE CHARACTERISTICS OF THE OPERATIVES

PREREQUISITES OF THE OPERATIVES

Some precise requirements must be expected of the operatives in

relation to the type of work they will be doing and the total number

of hours of training they will have. Generally speaking, the

operatives should have, apart from a firm capacity to work in groups

in a continuous manner, the capacity to work alone in a systematic

manner : in any case the staff must be able to work effectively,

following precise, codified methodologies which help them to make

the most of their own basic scholastic knowledge.

The operatives must furthermore acquire, during the specific

training courses, knowledge relating to photographic documentation,

even if they may not directly use this knowledge in the field,

during the theoretical part of the course or during the field work.

At the end of the theoretical lessons and the field practice, before

beginning work, the operatives will have to take an exam prepared by

MEMAR, which has already been used on previous occasions and is able

to evaluate the level of each student and the role each one will

play within each single work unit.

Our experience shows that, while all operatives must have a perfect

knowledge of all the operational phases, group work must be

organized so as to optimize the level of competence acquired by each

individual.

Furthermore, operatives must be able to computerize the catalogue

data at the same level: also in this case, it is indispensable that

all operatives have at least basic computer skills.

Before beginning the theoretical lessons in computer skills,

students take a placement test developed by MEMAR to divide them

into two separate learning levels, in order in the end to obtain

uniform results.



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Operational phases for the creation

of an information system

for the cultural heritage of Yemen

The Client may verify the progress of the work through 5 phases

described as follows:

Phase 1 - Review Stage Memar will, according to what the text of the call for bids

forsees:

a) Assess current legislation and regulation in respect of

the recording of cultural heritage, in relation to the

land use planning legislation, practice and procedures in

both rural and urban areas.

b) Review existing data and its reliability for geographical, chronological, and topographical information, and other

sources of information (including aerial photographs:

MEMAR will verify only data that falls within the

definition of “territorial inventory” and this information

will have to be available from the GOAMM on the date of

signing the contract, inasmuch as the work of this phase

will begin the day after, starting with this very

material. Memar, as requested, after having examined the

information, will express a judgment as to its

reliability.

c) Evaluate the cartographic base for inventory, with

preference for maps used by National Survey Authority, the

Ministry of Construction, Housing and Urban Planning

(MCHUP), GOPHCY and GOAMM.

d) Meet with the various foreign research institutions and

missions working on cultural heritage conservation in

Yemen to determine the content and adequacy of their data

held on historic sites and buildings: concerning this, we

will furnish GOAMM with a record to compile with the help

of the institutions and missions for the purpose of

normalizing the information.

e) Determine how many and which areas of the country have

been investigated through archaeological and architectural

survey; typically, identified sites are only a fraction of

existing sites: the areas in question will be represented

on a 1/1,000,000 scale.

f) Adapt the core data standards of the Council of Europe and the registration guidelines developed by ICOMOS to Yemen.

g) Determine the level of skills required for the recording

process of the project, and, based on the assessment of

the organization, the roles and responsibilities of the

GOY agencies for the study Cultural heritage project -

Project preparation, determine the skills that are

available.



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Phase 2 - Design Stage MEMAR will:

a) Design the atlas:

i. decide on a choice of technology, including the use of

computer hardware, geographic information system (GIS, to be

agreed with the Government's National Survey Authority, the

MCHUP, and MoCT/GOAMM), and global positioning system (GPS),

with the aim of selecting the most relevant and least-cost

method, and

ii. design an atlas 1:50,000 and an example 1:5,000 with a system

of co-ordinates: setting up the software with the possibility of

inserting in future the country’s whole territory; in this phase

only Wadi Hadramawt will be included.

b) Design the data form:

i. agree on the principles for the classification and grading of

monuments, groups of buildings and sites as required by GOPHCY

and GOAMM, and develop and agree on a statement about the

"value and significance" to be used as the basis for selecting

heritage for listing,

ii. develop standardized site numbering and recording methods,

data sheets, and location recording,

iii. design and agree on the documentation methods to be used

which will be based upon existing precedent within GOPHCY and

GOAMM, and

iv. devise and agree on the methods for archiving the data at the

different levels and the different locations of government

for the planning and control of development.

c) Adapt the institutions:

i. decide and agree on the needs for maintenance of the inventory

and of the archive, the quality control of data collection,

(and the preparation of associated reports and briefing

seminars), and

ii. devise and agree on the training programs for the staff

required to carry out the recording (including photography)

and archiving of data. This would include preparation of

training materials, and time for on-site training.

d) Develop the time programs for the training, organization and

management of the recording tasks, taking into account the

technical and financial limitations and the level of skills

available.

Phase 3 - Recording Stage Recording will include two programs:

a) The first program will record the detailed and updated

information collected in a pilot area, which is limited to



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Wadi Hadramawt. MEMAR will test the selected methodologies,

and will:

i. Carry out the training of the required Yemeni staff in method,

photography, survey, and description,

ii. Prepare all logistical planning for site visits, and manage

and mobilize the team to carry out the pilot study work,

iii. Prepare pilot study records of heritage sites, buildings,

rural and urban areas of a wide range of values and

significance sufficient to test the selected methods under

field conditions, and

iv. Carry out the recording of heritage sites in the pilot area.

b) The second program will establish provisional recording

records based on the processing of existing information

provided from MoCT/GOAMM/GOPHCY and collected from other

available sources during Stage 1 of the project.

Phase 4 - Verification and Archiving The MEMAR will:

a) Verify the integrity of the data recorded,

b) Verify the collation, and archiving principles and

practice,

c) Train Yemeni staff in archiving,

d) Prepare hard copy of the inventory, with photos and

drawings for storage and inspection by all concerned in the

central archive,

c) Prepare documentation in computerized data files; all maps

should be recorded in the vectorial format, and

f) Prepare duplicates of the record for storage in the

district offices.

Phase 5 - Evaluation The MEMAR will:

a) Make an evaluation of Phase 3' review and adjust the working

methods, content and cost of Phase 3 and Phase 4 according to

the problems uncovered during the pilot stage.

b) Based on the assessment of the work, propose ways to improve

and adjust the expansion of the site inventory.

c) Propose methods of using the inventory by all interested people

and the maintenance, safety and security of the information,

and evaluate all staffing, financial, and technical resources

needed.



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THE CONTENTS

OF THE “OPERATIONAL” PROFESSIONAL TRAINING

The training program must have the objective of preparing the

local operatives to work according to suitably integrated

international standards: the project must work with both

operatives from the Public Administration and from the private

sector.

The training modules are divided between “classroom lessons” and

”practical exercises” over a period of two months.

CLASSROOM LESSONS:

Operational phases of the territorial catalogue

Compilation of printed core data

Photographic documentation

Graphic documentation

EXERCISES IN THE FIELD:

Survey of documentary sources: practical exercises

Printed core data: field exercises

Site and the monument survey: field exercises

Photographic documentation: field exercises

Filing of core data, photos and survey results.

Operational criteria for cataloguing.

Objectives

Cataloguing of the territory.

Contents

Organization of the operational phases.

Cartographic documentary sources.

Graphic, cartographic and photographic attachments.

Contracts with the operatives.

Work progress.

Controls and checks.

Compilation of the core data models for the survey

of the cartographic data.

Objectives

Printed core data.

Contents

Positioning.

Juridical and safeguard conditions.

Geo-topographic references.

Historical information.



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Documentary sources.

Objectives

The structure of the bibliographic, cartographic etc. archive.

Contents

Verification.

Updating.

Implementation.

Implementation of the database.

Objectives

Updating of the database.

Contents

Modification and integration of the alphanumerical core data.

Modification and integration of the graphic objects.

Integration of the photographic documentation.

Recognition, documentation and representation of

the sites and the monuments.

Objectives

Survey of the sites, the complexes and the monuments.

Contents

What is a site and how is it represented?

What is a complex and how is it represented?

What is a monument and how is it represented?

Local survey of the perimeters (site and complex).

Local survey of monuments.

The correct representation of the surveyed elements.



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TEACHING MATERIAL

INDEX

A. “Territorial catalogue”

B. “Regulations for compiling the core data”

C. “Photographic documentation of the cultural

heritage"

D. “Cartography and graphic documentation”

E. “Archive-dossier”

The territorial catalogue

1 Methodology

1.1 Territorial catalogue

1.2 Operational phases

1.3 Operational units and professional

profiles

1.4 Management and Co-ordination

Regulations for compiling the Site-Complex-Monument core

data

1 Site-Complex-Monument core data

1.1 Compiling the printed model

1.2 Outlining the data structure

1.3 Documentary sources

The photographic documentation of the cultural heritage

1. Photographic documentation

1.1 Photography and architecture

1.2 Photography and archaeology

2 Cataloguing the monuments

2.1 Photographic shots

2.2 Tools

2.3 Equipment and objectives

2.3 Equipment and accessories for the shots

2.4 Lighting systems

3. Technical methods for the shots

3.1 Orthogonal shots, prospectives and panoramas

3.2 Detail shots and front details



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Cartography and graphic documentation

1 SITE – COMPLEX - MONUMENT

1.1 Production of the cartographic basis

1.2 Site, complex and monument survey

Archive - dossier

1 Documentations : forms of treatment and filing

1.1 Core data

1.2 Graphic attachments

1.3 Bibliographic sources



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COMMENTS ON THE CONTENTS

OF “MANAGERIAL” PROFESSIONAL TRAINING At the start of the “Management of the cultural heritage of

Tunisia” project, the training was of an “operational” type,

sufficient for the creation of records and related photos. By the

end of it such a great quantity of computerized material had been

produced that a complementary training program was required for

teaching operatives how to “conserve” and “update” all the data.

An initial continuation of the work was constituted by the

management training course which the World Bank is sponsoring so

that some of the same operatives that worked on the project may be

candidates for the «maintenance» of what has been produced.

At the end of the job the World Bank has committed itself in

Tunisia, at the National Heritage Institute, to the creation of an

INVENTORY OFFICE as a natural conclusion of the project, starting

with the results of the job.

From June 1st to 6

th, 1998, the functionaries of the World Bank met

together the representatives of the National Heritage Institute

(INP) and Memar, the Italian consultant in charge of creating the

catalogue, in order take stock of the progress made on work

started with the Italian trust fund.

Memo - Mission of June 1st to 6

th, 1998:

“Site Management. The mission considers the tasks to be

fulfilled by INP as being on 2 levels: (a) the decision to plan

the intervention on the sites (protection and exploitation with

the Agency for the Promotion of Cultural Heritage and Tourism),

with the BDD as an aid in making the decision, utilization of the

BDD to set up the protection measures required by the Code and the

priority decision to extend the BDD, according to different

criteria to be defined, (b) updating of records already made and

the extension of the BDD to the new sites and monuments. The INP

must consider creating an adequate section to fulfill these tasks,

independent of the existing sections, so as to be able to carry

out these new functions smoothly. The mission estimates that 3 new

positions should be created first: (a) a high-level head in charge

of carrying out the work, (b) and two operatives to guarantee the

work gets done.

Updating and Extension of the BDD. According to the information

supplied by Memar, the 4 phases necessary for record gathering are

the following: (a) analysis of documentary, bibliographic and

cartographic collections, (b) gathering of field data, including

photos, sketches and complementary data, (c) quality checking of

data, (d) archiving. Memar Sit has proposed rapidly supplying the

INP and the Bank with profile and candidacy suggestions to answer

to the tasks and, in addition, a training program based on the



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knowledge of local experience and of the possibilities of

recruitment. After having agreed on the need for a training

program designed to ensure the success of the rehiring of the BDD

by the INP and the Bank, we committed ourselves to searching for

compelementary financings to ensure its creation, of which Memar

Sit will assume responsibility.

Subsequent stages. On the basis of Memar‟s proposals concerning

recruitment profiles, INP will take the necessary measures to

reinforce its team to take on the new functions linked to site

management through the BDD fairly soon so that Memar can start up

its laboratory with this new personnel; the World Bank will assist

INP in seeking finances to answer to the needs for further

training which will arise during the management phase”.

After the end of the project, two of the Tunisian opratives who

participated in the development of the field work were employed by

INP, as the World Bank suggested. Today these two workers, at the

National Heritage Institute in Place du Chateau in Tunis,

constitute the first nucleus of the Inventory Office, devoted to

the conservation of the printed and computerized archive of

Tunisia‟s protected cultural heritage.

Italy has already made other resources available for completing

the training of Office employees. The Italian Embassy in Tunis has

awarded these employees of the Inventory Office of INP two study

fellowships for a total of 8 months to complete internships in

Italy.

Certainly in the future Tunisia, and one hopes also Yemen, will be

able to go ahead with its own INVENTORY OFFICE personnel for the

drawing up of feasability studies (forseeing the employment of

internal personnel, external suppliers and so costs and time) that

are indispensable for proceeding with the creation of the various

inventory projects. This means that the Office will function as a

link with external consultants and suppliers, having the capacity

to draw up and negotiate contracts, oversee work progress, testing

and materials, and gather data for archiving.

If necessary, at the end of the field work, some operatives can

learn to collect data, conserve it and develop it within a real

office for the management of the cultural heritage. In this case,

according to the number of staff and the limits of the INVENTORY

OFFICE, it will be possible to continue the training program with a

specific “managerial” training module.



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THE TASKS OF THE INVENTORY OFFICE

The employees must know how to respond to all the needs of the

Inventory OFFICE with the capacity to coordinate all activities: in

particular, the employees must be able to implement over a period

of time the data bank of the cultural heritage of Yemen starting

with the conservation of the initial data elaborated during the

phase of project development.

We may imagine that the staff of the INVENTORY OFFICE is able to

carry out perfectly a co-ordinated series of operations with the

following aims:

1. to provide assistance to all categories of users as far as the

access to the data is concerned;

2. to complete the initial data (in particular the documentary

sources);

3. to update the initial data (in particular the cadastre and

properties);

4. to complete the initial data with: - the cataloguing of the monuments,

- the integration of the photographic documentation,

5. to complete the initial data with the cataloguing of other sites:

- identifying the areas of intervention making up the heritage

list to be inventoried on the basis of the INP‟s programmed

addresses,

- surveying documentary sources,

- preparing the dossiers with the documentary sources necessary

for the territorial surveys,

- carrying out feasibility studies (time, internal staff,

external suppliers and, therefore, costs) for the execution

of the single programs,

- contributing directly to the production of core data and

photographs,

- participating in the testing of the material produced by

third parties (core data, photos and topographic surveys),

- reporting on the proceedings of the works and contracts

carried out by external suppliers,

- computerizing, printing and filing the material produced,

also by external suppliers.

6. implementation of the operational work support tools

(vocabularies and repertories controlled by documentary

sources).

In particular the operatives must follow courses which contain the

following subjects:

Acquiring computer skills

Objectives

- Use of the Personal Computer and the operating system.

Contents

- The operating systems Windows

- Masterization and data-saving on CD-ROM



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Basic and applied computer skills

Objectives

- Basic computer tools.

Contents

- The use of Excel, Word and Access.

- The use of the product for the management of alphanumerical core

data.

- Use of management products for photographic images.

Database

Objectives

- Updating the database.

Contents

- Modification and integration of alphanumerical core data.

- Modification and integration of graphic objects.

- Integration of photographic documentation.

Data entry

Objectives

- The creation of numerical images.

Contents

- The unification and transfer of data to a computerized base.

- Structuring data

Numerical images

Objectives

- Data structure.

Contents

- Rasterization

- Transmission of image records.

- Connection between computerized core data and rasterized

images.

Training and management of the computerized archive

Objectives

- Data structure.

Contents

- Introduction to alphanumerical core data.

- Introduction to cartographic databases.

- Connection between alphanumerical core data and cartographic

data.

- Connection between alphanumerical core data and photographic

images.

- Introduction to photographic databases.

Electronic core data : data entry exercises

Objectives

- The use of data entry systems.

Contents

- Access Program.



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DOCUMENTS TO BE SUPPLIED BY THE MIN. OF CULTURE AND

TOURISM(MOTC) 1. Authorizations for movements within the territory by the firm‟s

European collaborators.

2. Authorizations for movements within the territory by local

personnel, with special reference to access authorization to

sites of a “religious” character.

3. Authorizations for Yemeni personnel to use the firm‟s equipment 4. Documentary sources for consutation and reproduction in raster

format; in particular: official cartography (diagram summary,

scale, coordinate system, etc.) and aerial photos (cover, flight

altitude, etc.).

5. The preceding studies and research for consultation and

reproduction: reports, records, photos, surveys, cartographies

of Wadi Hadramawt for their utilization and reconversion into

the project‟s standards. The identification of the entire

cultural heritage of Wadi Hadramawt will require the utilization

of all the existing work and its unification according to the

standard by which this project information will be gathered.

DOCUMENTATION TO BE FURNISHED

BY THE CONSULTANT For the purposes of the work destined to the Client, as defined by

the call to bids, the following types of documents must be

presented:

1. The computerized system will provide an atlas of the priority archeological and historical sites at 1:50000 scale with an

index by region and by historic period, and the maps of the

site at 1:5000 and/or 1:2000 scale.

2. The data for each site will include its boundaries as well as the existing networks within it or in the immediate vicinity.

3. The results of the catalogue in printed form. 4. The following reports on the built environment of historic

cities and for individual heritage sites:

A photographic report of five views for cities and one

or two photographs of individual sites to illustrate their

character (in digitalized form and in color slides), and

A short technical report on the state of conservation

for the urban areas.



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MATERIALS AND EQUIPMENT TO BE SUPPLIED BY THE CONSULTANT

In order to operate on the territory Memar will secure the

necessary office and classroom space for 20 students, for a total

of 100 sq. meters. We plan on acquiring the following stable

equipment for the following operatives:

Hardware (min.configuration)

Pentium II 350 Mhz 3

64 Mb Ram 3

Hd 4 Gb 3

8 Mb Ram video care 3

32x Reader of Cd Rom 3

Audio card 3

Monitor 17“ 3

Base software Licenses

Windows 98 3

Microsoft Office 97 3

Adobe Photoshop 5 3

Perypherals

Level scanner 3

Printer-jet a colori 3

Operational aid

Camera digitale camera 3

Magellan type GPS type 2000 3

Other equipment

Video-projector 1

Software ArcView 3.1 3

Software Geowin 3



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E. TEAM COMPOSITION AND TASK ASSIGNMENTS

1. Technical/Managerial Staff

Name Position Task

Francesco Lavecchia Urbanist architect General Manager

Federico Ranuzzi Expert catalogue records Database

Mario Guglielmo Masters cultural

heritage

Archiving

Luigi Maggioletti Photographer Digital images

Marco Maranesi

Topographer GIS

Maria Codeluppi Employee Logistical aid

2. Support Staff

Name Position Task

Mathieu Julien Architect

Expeditious survey

and GPS

Nicola Santopuoli Architect

Architectural

documentation

Stéphane Niepceron Technical Editing

Annalisa Terenziani Technical Graphics

Oufa Ben Slimane Archeologist

Manuals and norms in

Arabic

Ghenoua Lahbib Archeologist Database in Arabic

Ridha Ben Abdessalem Engineer Computer science



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F. FORMAT OF CURRICULUM VITAE (CV)

FOR REGULAR STAFF

Proposed Position: Architect urbanist/ General Manager

Name of Firm: MEMAR S.R.L

Name of Staff.: LAVECCHIA Francesco

Profession: Architect

Date of Birth: 23.09.1946

Years with Firm/Entity: 9 years (associate and manager)

Nationality: Italian

MEMBERSHIP IN PROFESSIONAL SOCIETIES: associate of the architects‟

co-operative of reggio emilia.

Detailed Tasks Assigned: architect urbanist, specialist of

computerised cataloguing of cultural heritage.

Key Qualifications:

1997-99: executive director “TUNISIA: PROJET DE GESTION DU PATRIMOINE

CULTUREL”. Tender Authority: World Bank, with financial

contributions from the Italian Ministry of Foreign Affairs.

1995-97: executive director of the project for research

investigations of the cultural assets of Sardinia. Contractor:

Autonomous Region of Sardinia and the Emilia-Romagna region.

1995-97: executive director of the project for Pre-cataloguing

of the assets under risk in Emilia-Romagna from law 145/92.

Contractor: Ministry of Cultural Heritage.

1995-97: operational support to the working group Ministère de

la Culture- Inventaire and Ministry of Cultural Heritage -

Central Institute for Cataloguing and Documentation for the

elaboration of a common methodology for inventories for

architectural, archaeological and historic-artistic assets.

1994: executive director of the project for Pre-cataloguing of

Emilia-Romagna from law 84/90. Contractor: Ministry of Cultural

Heritage.

1994: planning and co-design, cartographic bases for geo-

referencing of catalographic data. Contractor: Ministry of

Cultural Heritage.

1994: planning and co-design: Project for the pre-cataloguing of

the cultural assets of the Marche region. Contractor: Ministry

of Cultural Heritage.

1993: project manager “EuropArt”. Partner: CICD-INVENTAIRE-

RCHME. Contractor: Commission of the European Communities DG

XIII. Programme IMPACT 2.



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1987-1989: executive director of the SIRIS project. Contractor:

Ministry of Cultural Heritage and Ministry of Work.

Education:

1966: High school diploma in Classical Studies.

1973: Degree in Architecture at the University of Florence.

Employment Record:

1999: vice-chairman of MEMAR S.r.l. (see company profile).

1998: vice-chairman of C.R.C.

1990-1998: chairman of MEMAR SIT - Sistemi Informatici

Territoriali S.r.l. (see company profile).

1994: planning, analysis and management: DESC - Data Entry,

Printing and Consultation: system adopted by the Central

Institute for Cataloguing and Documentation of the Ministry of

Cultural Heritage. Contractor: Ministry of Cultural and

Heritage.

1993-1997: chairman of C.R.C. - Regional Centre for Cataloguing

and Documentation S.r.l.

1988-1989: associate of the Architects‟ and Engineers‟ Co-

operative of Reggio Emilia.

1987-1990: survey, study and analysis of the communes of

Recanati, Loreto and Porto Recanati. Contractor: Government

office of Architectural and Environmental assets of the Marche

region.

1974-1987: consultant and collaborator of the Architect‟s and

Engineer‟s Co-operative of Reggio Emilia (company working in the

field of urban and territorial planning and building projects).

Languages:

speaking reading writing

Italian native speaker

French fair fair fair

English poor poor poor

Certification:

I, the undersigned, certify that to the best of my knowledge and

belief, these data correctly describe me, my qualifications, and

my experience.

Date: ……………………

Day/Month/Year.

Full name of staff member: …………………………………………………

Full name of authorized representative: …………………………………………



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CURRICULUM VITAE (CV) FOR REGULAR STAFF

Proposed Position: Graduate in cultural heritage/ archiving


Name of Staff.: GUGLIELMO Mario

Profession: Technician


Years with Firm/Entity: 4 years (employee)


MEMBERSHIP IN PROFESSIONAL SOCIETIES:

DETAILED TASKS ASSIGNED: compiler of manual relating to fast

architectural surveys for use by architects, cartographic drawer,

(land) photogrammetric restituter.

Key Qualifications:

1998: operational aid to the “Management Project Concerning the

Cultural Heritage of Tunisia” : training of Tunisian trainees

regarding the use of the GPS and the production of expeditionary

surveys in archeological sites; production testing; site

surveys, photographic images, lists of photographic studies,

cartography, suitabiity of files to catalogue operations;

Digitalized graphic and photographic images; archiving of

bibliographic, cartographic and photogrpahic material.

1997: implementation of address numbers and road maps destined

to be included in the GIS (Geographic Information System) in

collaboration with the company Tecniconsul S.r.l. from Reggio

Emilia.

1996: manual relating to fast architectural surveys and

conjectural surveys, for use by architects and cataloguers of

architectural assets and cataloguers and photographers of works

of art.

1995: manual preparation (manual relating to the elaboration of

territorial group outlines for the projects of pre-cataloguing

of the cultural assets of the Emilia Romagna province and of

Sardinia - manual relating to the papers of the dioceses aimed

at categorising and planning catalographic activities of

cultural assets).

1988-89: employed by the company “System e Management S.p.A.”

for the SIRIS project (Information system for the Reconstruction

of Historic Settlements. Cataloguing and new technologies

applied to the study of the territory), as a cartographic drawer

- topographic cartography drawer - (land) photogrammetric

restituter.



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Education:

1982: High school diploma from the Technical Institute for

Geometry “Leonardo da Vinci” in Larino (CB).

1991: Degree from the DAMS (Art, Music and Performing Arts

Faculty), of the University of Bologna, Art specialisation. Thesis

in History of Architecture: final score 110/110.

Employment Record:

1996: course in “AUTOCAD R13 - Basic Course for code 254” of 114

hours organised by the Bologna province at the IAL offices in

Bologna, with relative certification.

1995: elaboration of vectorial and raster cartography

(production of original vectorial cartography from photo -

interpretations - production of photo-levels).

1995: elaboration of territorial group outlines, attached to

inventory sheets for catalographic projects relating to the Law

145/92 of the Emilia Romagna region.

1995: revision of the toponymy relating to the architecture “A”

sheets and implementation of the data relative to the

ecclesiastical jurisdiction - including the „parish‟ level - of

each single container (asset “A”).

1993 - 1995: elaboration of flat digital ortho-photo maps for

the representation of the territory in the Po valley river boom

through digital acquisition from geo-referenced aerial

photography sources.

1992: technical drawer and photogrammetrist on contract basis

during 1992, for design and architectural restoration studies in

Bologna.

1992: member of the examination board for History of Art high

school exams in 1991/92, for the State Institute of Art in

Lanusei (NU).

1988: cartographic drawer on contract basis in July and August

1988, for the Co-operative of Architects and Engineers of Reggio

Emilia.

Languages:





Certification:



my experience.

Date: ………………………

Day/Month/Year.

Full name of staff member: ………………………………………………………………

Full name of authorized representative: ………………………………………………………



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Proposed Position: Record catalogue expert/ data base


Name of Staff.: RANUZZI Federico



Years with Firm/Entity: 4 years


Membership in Professional Societies:

Detailed Tasks Assigned:

Key Qualifications:

1998: collaboration on the project for the cataloguing of 300

archaeological and historic sites in Tunisia and the production

of a territorial computer system.

Since 1995: employed by the company Memar Sit, collaborator for

planning and implementation of software programmes Fototeca2,

TDA, Scheda FKO and TDF for the computerisation, management and

consultation of data and images relating to the catalogue sheets

of the Ministry of Cultural Assets.

1993-95: computing and catalogue manager for Memar Sit for the

project for the pre-cataloguing of the cultural assets of the

Marche region, from law 84/90.

1993-94: collaboration with Memar Sit, on behalf of the

C.I.C.D., the Royal Commission of Arts from London and the

Inventaire from Paris, on the project EuropArt for the creation

of a European database for images of architectural assets.

1992-95: collaboration with Memar Sit for the development and

testing of the DESC software, database for the computerisation

and management of catalogues of cultural assets, produced for

the C.I.C.D. – Central Institute for Cataloguing and

Documentation of the Ministry of Cultural Assets.

1992: computerisation of data and digitalisation of the

photographic campaign in the framework of the project for the

territorial pre-cataloguing of architectural assets in the

commune of Preganziol, in the Terraglio region of the province

of Treviso, on behalf of the Regional Centre of Cataloguing of

the Cultural Heritage of the Veneto Region and in collaboration

with Memar Sit – Reggio Emilia.

1989: employed by System & Management S.p.A. as an archives

researcher, drawer and computerised graphics operator in the



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framework of the SIRIS project- Information system for the

reconstruction of Historical settlements (from Law 42/86, art.

15).

Education:

1981: High School Diploma from the Scientific High School “Augusto

Righi” in Bologna.

1979-1981: Diploma in piano (middle level), harmony and history of

music at the “G.B. Martini” conservatory in Bologna.

Employment Record:

Since 1995: teacher in a number of training course for the use

of Personal Computers, in Windows environment, use of programmes

for cataloguing cultural assets, image digitalisation, methods

and standards of cataloguing cultural assets:

training course on the DESC programme for the Regional

Centre for Cataloguing, Cagliari (Cagliari 1996);

training course ECIPAR-C.R.C. Bologna for operators in the

safeguard of the artistic heritage (Bologna 1996);

training course ATHENA, from law 84/90, on the application

of computerised graphics in the field of Cultural Assets

for Government office civil servants (Rome - Reggio Emilia

1996);

multi-regional training course ENAIP-C.R.C. for cataloguers

of cultural assets (Bologna-Ferrara 1998);

training seminars KODAK-Memar Sit on Digital Imaging in the

field of documentation of cultural assets, for Italian

Government office civil servants, museum and library staff

(Reggio Emilia 1998);

training course Memar Sit on the computerisation of

archaeological sheets in the framework of the project

“Management of the cultural heritage of Tunisia” (Tunis

1998).

1993-94: teacher in computing on a number of training courses in

Windows applications, and computer software for cataloguing

cultural assets:

training course for the computerisation of inventory sheets

using the DESC programme for civil servants from the main

and secondary offices of the Ministry of Cultural Assets

(Parma - Rome - Naples 1993);

basic computing training course including computerisation

of catalogue sheets using the DESC programme for the C.R.C.

in Bologna, in the framework of the project for cataloguing

the cultural assets of the Emilia Romagna region” from Law

84/90 (Bologna 1993);

training course for I.B.C.-Nuovo Cescot for Cataloguers of

Cultural Assets (Longiano 1993);

training course in the DESC programme for the TARA

consortium in the framework of the project “Census of the



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historical - artistic and archaeological heritage” from Law

160/88 (Naples 1994).

1993-94: collaboration with Memar Sit on the restructuring and

setting up of cataloguing regulations for cultural assets for

the C.I.C.D.

1991: cataloguer for the C.R.C.- Regional Centre for Cataloguing

and Documentation and for the I.B.C.- Institute for Artistic,

Cultural and Natural Assets for the Emilia Romagna region, for

the cataloguing of the Paolo Monti Photographic Fund.

1990-92: responsible for the restructuring and computerisation

of the Inventory office of the Government office for Historic

and Artistic Assets in the provinces of Reggio Emilia and

Modena.

Languages:




English fair fair fair

Certification:



my experience.

Date: ……………………

Day/Month/Year.

Full name of staff member: ……………………………………………………………………




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Proposed Position: Photographer/ digital images


Name of Staff.: MAGGIOLETTI Luigivalerio



Years with Firm/Entity: 4 years (employee)




Key Qualifications:

1998: provided for the digitalisation of the photographic

campaign of the project to the “Management Project Concerning

the Cultural Heritage of Tunisia”.

Since 1995: employed by Memar-sit and on behalf ol C.R.C.

(Regional Center of Inventory and Documentation) have worked on

photographic documentation campaigns as part of the

precataloguing Project ex L.145/92 for the Superintendence for

Artistic and Historical Landmarks of the Provinces of Modena and

Reggio Emilia, the Superintendence for Artistic and Historical

Landmarks of the Provinces di Bologna, Ferrara, Forlì and

Ravenna, and the Superintendence for Artistic and Historical

Landmarks of the Provinces of Parma and Piacenza.

Edited the digitalization and collaborated on the creation of

electronic archives of photographic funds owned by the Institute

for Artistic, Cultural and Natural Landmarks of the Emilia

Romagna Region. Participated as instructor of Creation of

Electronic Photo Archives and Image Digitalization in various

training courses, some of which devoted to executives of various

offices of numerous Italian Superintendences, Museums and

Libraries.

Representative of the Kodak station for the production of

electronic images.

Education:

1977: Graduated from the “M. T. Cicerone” secondary school in Sala

Consilina (Sa).

Employment Record:

1993: appointed by the Sovrintendenza per i Beni Artistici e

Storici delle province di Modena e Reggio Emilia cura la



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campagna di documentazione fotografica dei beni ecclesiastici

nel territorio del comune di Polinago (Mo).

1992-93: on behalf of the Regional Center for Inventorying

Cultural and Environmental Landmarks of the Veneto Region, and

in collaboration with Memar-sit, presently edit photographic

documentation for the project of Territorial Precataloguing of

Architectural Landmarks in the town of Preganziol, Terrgaglio

Province of Treviso.

1992-93: collaborate with Memar-sit as instructor of Photography

in Relation to Cultural Landmarks, on the Precataloguing Project

of Cutlural Landmarks of the Marche Region, ex L. 84/90, on

behalf of the Superintendence of Artistic and Historic Landmarks

of the Marche Region, and of the Diocese of Ancona and the

Cultural Commission of the Marche Region.

1992: edited a photographic documentation project for designing

the catalogue Ancient Roads. The Human Development of ’Emilia

Romagna on behalf of the publisher Marsilio s.p.a. on occasion

of EXPO „92 in Seville.

1991: on behalf of C.R.C. (Regional Center for Inventory and

Documentation) and the Institute for Artistic, Cultural and

Natural Landmarks of the Region of Emilia Romagna presently

collaborate, in the role of archivist, on the cataloguing of the

Monti Photographic Fund.

1991-92: in collaboration with Memar-sit and C.R.C. (Regional

Center for Inventory and Documentation), edited photographic

documentation as part of inventory projects on behalf of the

Superintendence for Artistic and Historical Landmarks of the

provinces of Modena and Reggio Emilia, the Superintendence for

Artistic and Historical Landmarks of the provinces of Bologna,

Ferrara, Forlì and Ravenna and the Superintendence for Artistic

and Historical Landmarks of the provinces of Parma and Piacenza.

1991: edited the photography project of the civic and religious

buildings planned by CAIRE, Architects‟ and Engineers‟

Cooperative of Reggio Emilia, on behalf of the cooperative

itself.

1990: edited, in collaboration with the Institute for Artistic,

Cultural and Natural Landmarks of the Region of Emilia Romagna,

the inventory campaign of the bells of the Capanni collection as

part of the exhibit Bells in Italy from the Middle Ages to the

Present on appointment by the Cultural Commission of the City of

Castelnuovo nei Monti (Re).

1987-89: employed at System & Management, Inc., as a researcher

and archivist of historic photographic materials and as cultural

landmarks photographer as part of the SIRIS project (ex-Law

41/86, art. 15).

Languages:






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Certification:



my experience.

Date: ………………….

Day/Month/Year.

Full name of staff member: ………………………………………………………

Full name of authorized representative: ……………………………………………………



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Proposed Position: Topographer/ GIS


Name of Staff.: MARANESI Marco

Profession: Surveyor


Years with Firm/Entity: 2 years




Key Qualifications:

1998: undertook analysis activity and participated in creating a

territorial computerized system for cataloguing the

archeological and historical heritage of Tunisia.

1998: Seabo (BO), study activity, digitalized and disegned the

creatione of a graphic and alphanumerical data bank of the

town‟s place names and house numers.

1995 : City of Zola Predosa (BO), created P.R.G.numerical maps

on specific themes (scattered homes, landscape planning,

historical routes).

1992-93 : ACTP (SS), digitalized the topographic census plan on

1:2000 and 1:10000 scales; interpreted the roadway axis

pertaining to the entire City of Sassari carried out on

technical maps on 1:2000 and 1:1000 scales; digitalized and

computerized the roadway axis so interpreted; provided the

Territorial Informational System; created an application for

visualizing the routes and constantly monitoring the placment of

the buses with on-monitor results in real time.

1991-93: State Pension Benefits, digitalized the administrative

boundaries of State, Region and Province inferred from the

I.G.M. maps 1:250.000 pertaining to the entire national

territory; digitalized all the towns on the nationwide territory

inferred from maps on a 1:500.000 scale; provided an application

for the design of thematic maps.

Education:

1976: Graduated from the “Pacinotti” State Technical Institute for

Surveyors.

Employment Record:

1980-82: Region of Emilia Romagna, survey and reconaissance/

aereophotogrametric restitution for the editing of 30 regional



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technical maps on a scale of 1:5000 for a total of about 27,000

Hectares.

1980-83: University di Bologna, facoltà of Engineering, survey

and Reconnaissance/ aereophotogrametric restitution for the

realization of cartography on a scale of 1:200 finalized for a

waterwork study of the Setta Torrent.

1988: City of Bologna (traffic office), interpretated and

designed the roadway axis pertaining to the entire territory of

the City of Bologna on cartography on a 1:2000 scale;

digitalized and computerized the interpreted map; Provided

software applied to roadway interrogation and management.

1989-91: Amia (RN), provided a Computerized Territorial System

for the managementand calculation of trash collection routes.

1990-93: Consortium of the Participants of S. Giovanni in

Persiceto, computerized retrieval and conversion of existing

numerical cartography on a 1:2000 scale for a total of about

1000 hectares; computerization of the cartography pertaining to

the consortial and cortile parcels; digitalized the cortilive

areas on a 1:200 scale; digitalized of the land registration

cartography pertaining to the consortium properties; provided

the Territory Informational System; carried out an application

for the concession management of lands owned by the Consortium.

1992: City of Budrio (BO), edited numerical maps pertaining to

city place names (streets and house numbers), located and

digitalized nuclei of scattered houses.

1993: City of Castenaso (BO), digitalized the road network;

digitalized the 1:5000 regional C.T.R. cartographic base.;

digitalized the house numbering; digitalized the topographic

census of 1991.

1993: Tecnicoop (BO),edited thematic maps of the City of

Bologna‟s commercial planning, starting with both the graphic

and alphanumerical type numerical archives.

1995: Sabo (BO), study activity, digitalized and disegned a

graphic and alphanumerical data bank for use management.

Languages:



French poor poor poor

Certification:



my experience.

Date: ……………………

Day/Month/Year.

Full name of staff member: ………………………………………………………




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H. ACTIVITY SCHEDULE

1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12

apr

Review Stage

Document source survey

may

Review Stage

Executive project

Evaluation

jun

Design stage Selection

of local personnel

jul - aug

Design stage

Training of local personnel

Design stage

Logistics

Evaluation

sep -oct -nov -dec

Recording stage

Predisposition dossier

Recording stage

Realization records and photos

Recording

stage Atlas

Recording

stage Database

Evaluation

jan

Verification

feb

Archiving

mar

Evaluation and

Final report

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