Meteorite databases and catalogues: the case of the meteorite collection of the Museo di Storia Naturale dell’Università di Firenze as the first one to be published on the Italian ICCD web site

A new, ICCD rules-based cataloguing software named SAMM-2 has been consequently commissioned to a software house by the Museo di Storia Naturale – Sistema Museale di Ateneo dell’Università di Firenze. In 2019 a cataloguing campaign has been performed by the Mineralogy Section of the Museo Storia Naturale dell’Università di Firenze. A set of 120 official numbers has been requested to the ICCD and two main collections have been chosen for testing the cataloguing tool. The first is the historic collection of the Museum [3], consisting of 68 specimens most of which are meteorites that fell in the 18th and 19th centuries already described in the mid 18th century handwritten catalogue. The other one is a collection of specimens collected during a field campaign carried out in the Lut Desert of Iran in march 2017 by a joint Italian-Iranian expedition. Since all these samples have been classified at the meteorite laboratory of the Museum, these specimens have been registered as type specimens, i.e. new meteorites. All the cards of the meteorites will be published in the official site of the ICCD and will therefore represent the first meteorite collection in Italy to be officially registered in the National General Catalogue of Cultural Heritage [4]. A research tool will then allow to browse the collection and show the consistency of the collection itself. We therefore present the scientific criteria adopted for ICCD cards and the functionality of the SAMM-2 ICCD-tested cataloguing tool.