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A Web Information System for the Semantic-Based Analysis of Architectural Heritage
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This article focuses on the fields of architectural documentation and digital representation. It concerns the development of an information system at the scale of architecture, taking into account the relationships that can be established between the representation of buildings (shape, dimension, state of conservation, hypothetical restitution) and heterogeneous information about various fields (such as the technical, the documentary or still the historical one). The proposed approach aims to organize multiple representations (and associated information) around a semantic description model with the goal of defining a web information system for the multi-field analysis of heritage buildings.
A semantic-based platform for the digital analysis of architectural heritage
Computers & Graphics, 2011
This essay focuses on the fields of architectural documentation and digital representation. We present a research paper concerning the development of an information system at the scale of architecture, taking into account the relationships that can be established between the representation of buildings (shape, dimension, state of conservation, hypothetical restitution) and heterogeneous information about various fields (such as the technical, the documentary or still the historical one). The proposed approach aims to organize multiple representations (and associated information) around a semantic description model with the goal of defining a system for the multi-field analysis of buildings.
A Semantic Web Approach for Built Heritage Representation
Communications in Computer and Information Science, 2015
In a built heritage process, meant as a structured system of activities aimed at the investigation, preservation, and management of architectural heritage, any task accomplished by the several actors involved in it is deeply influenced by the way the knowledge is represented and shared. In the current heritage practice, knowledge representation and management have shown several limitations due to the difficulty of dealing with large amount of extremely heterogeneous data. On this basis, this research aims at extending semantic web approaches and technologies to architectural heritage knowledge management in order to provide an integrated and multidisciplinary representation of the artifact and of the knowledge necessary to support any decision or any intervention and management activity. To this purpose, an ontology-based system, representing the knowledge related to the artifact and its contexts, has been developed through the formalization of domain-specific entities and relationships between them.
An Ontology for Architectural Heritage: Historical Figures and Organizations
An Ontology for Architectural Heritage: Historical Figures and Organizations, 2022
The goal of the article is to present one of a total of seven ontologies in the project for the Semantic Modelling of the Bulgarian Pre-and Revival houses. The ontological representation of historical and contemporary figures and organizations concerning the residential revival architecture will be considered.
International Journal of Heritage in the Digital Era, 2014
An online ontology-based knowledge representation system for historic buildings and their multimedia data is introduced in this paper. The ontology is combined from different schemas to capture knowledge of an architectural heritage and annotate visual data. Basically, a Core Data Index metadata schema in RDF describes types of buildings in a world heritage site, the Citadel of Bam (which was seriously damaged by an earthquake in 2003). The history of the buildings in the Citadel with around twenty centuries of habitation is captured from multiple resources such as travelogues, archeological reports, etc. and connected with a multilingual term-set. Each building together with the conceptualized knowledge is geo localized by UTM coordinates over Google Earth. Visual data of the buildings are connected with the knowledge-base and a Dublin Core Element Set metadata schema is applied to annotate the data, specifically results of the supporting project, the 3D CG reconstruction of the Citadel after the quake (such as rendered images, walkthrough and QTVR videos, etc.). The ontology and related resources are represented by RDF and then published into HTML pages, on a hierarchical layer structure of semantic web and web application frameworks. We present the architecture of the system, “Bam 3D CG” and discuss practical problems when building an online RDF-based system for publishing knowledge and visual data of historic buildings in a website.
Semantic Models for Architectural Heritage Documentation
Progress in Cultural Heritage Preservation, 2012
In the field of CH metric documentation management the development of GIS tools has radically improved the capability of handling complex geometric models and the quantity of the semantic values of spatial data. These improvements in GIS tools have been followed by the development of data models and data definition languages able to manage such a complexity through a set of open rules and vocabularies. We need to change the application-driven practice of the GIS to a common set of rules and frameworks through the adoption of open-standards and languages. The aim of this study is to showcase the results of the test of framework for the management of a 3D metric survey archive by means of CityGML standard.
2013 Digital Heritage International Congress (DigitalHeritage), 2013
The historical built environment is acknowledged as a valuable but complex material and cultural resource that needs to be preserved. Digital technologies give the opportunity to improve and expand the comprehension of the complex artefacts present in this built environment. Building information modelling (BIM) and semantic web technologies are two technologies that are often used for the documentation of the built environment and of cultural heritage resources. With our research, we investigate to what extent those technologies can be integrated and which advantages this combination can produce for the analysis and interpretation of our built environment. In this paper, we present the application of BIM software and semantic web technologies to a case study: the Book Tower in Ghent, Belgium. The Book Tower is one of the most important early 20th century buildings in the city of Ghent. Through the paper we will show how BIM and semantic web technologies were integrated, which advantages this combination can produce and which future developments could be considered. The recorded information can be essential to plan and manage a recovery plan and/or a maintenance program taking into consideration also aspects linked to cultural diversity and environmental sustainability.
Sharing the knowledge: exploring cultural heritage through an ontology-based platform
Journal of Ambient Intelligence and Humanized Computing
The exponential growth of data has made ontology modeling an up-and-coming research area for knowledge representation. One of the domains of interest is represented by Cultural Heritage, in which modeling of environments, such as archaeological parks, could lead to their protection and enhancement. In this scenario, the valuable dataset on the Naples Urban Archaeological Park (PAUN) is of particular interest. Due to its peculiarity, the database could benefit from innovative techniques for retrieving the information, representing a large part of the information contained within the DatabencArt platform, which collects data on Campania's cultural heritage. This paper aims to introduce an ontology-based approach to improve data retrieval, which could help expert users in the field (archaeologists, art historians, geologists, etc.). Scholars need to be able to easily compare the information. To this end, a semantic search is able to transform a vast amount of data into linked conce...
Assessment and comparison of metadata schemas for Architectural Heritage
Conservation, protection and study of Architectural Heritage (AH) are based on the complete knowledge and documentation of its complex morphology, its architectonic components and all events related to the building. A key issue for a full recording of a monument is related to the cataloguing process, which is the action of registration, description and classification of Cultural Heritage (CH) assets. Many Cultural Institutions and National Bodies have been working towards the development of standards to make documentation uniform, retrieve information about Cultural Heritage, promote data sharing, improve content management and reduce redundant efforts. To regulate the cataloguing activity, rules, guidelines and indications were defined. In particular, thesauri were adopted to provide, with a controlled vocabulary, structure and guidelines for standardization of terms, avoiding ambiguity and subjectivity of documentation and the loss of important information. Some of these data standards have been defined within a national framework, such as the ICCD schema (Italy)or the MIDAS standard (England); others aim at guaranteeing data interoperability, such as, among others, LIDO and the CARARE schema. In this paper we carry out an assessment and comparison of the above mentioned schemas and standards, along with the schema adopted by l'Inventaire général du patrimoine culturel (France). After an analysis of the formal description of the single metadata schemas, we carried out the mapping of the different schemas to each other. The analysis is performed taking into consideration the RecorDim guidelines for documenting CH places. As a result, the mappings described in the paper enable the interoperability of data stored according to different metadata schemas. Furthermore the paper highlights properties, equivalencies and shortcomings of the schemas, confirming the idea that a more comprehensive documentation standard for Architectural Heritage is needed.
ArCo ontology network and LOD on Italian Cultural Heritage
2019
ArCo (Architecture of Knowledge) is a collaborative project that involves the institute of the Italian Ministry of Cultural Heritage ICCD (Institute of Catalogue and Documentation) and the Institute of Cognitive Sciences and Technologies of CNR (Italian National Research Council). ArCo aims at modelling the wide domain of Italian cultural heritage for two main purposes: (i) building a network of ontologies, compatible and aligned whenever possible with existing ontologies, that can be used as a de facto standard for representing cultural heritage data; (ii) publishing ICCD data as LOD: about 800.000 publishable files stored in the ICCD General Catalogue database. In this paper, we present ArCo structure, design methods and tools, its growing community, and we delineate its importance, quality, and impact in using semantic technologies in the fruition of Cultural Heritage.