A Semantic Web Approach for Built Heritage Representation

Abstract

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.

Culto: An Ontology-Based Annotation Tool for Data Curation In Cultural Heritage

“…An attempt to integrate the Building Information Modelling with an ontology-based knowledge management system is proposed in (Simeone et al, 2014) with the objective to improve BIM abilities for inference and reasoning through an ontology able to interrelate all the domains needed for a comprehensive interpretation of the historical artefacts. The underlying ontology has been then extended in (Cursi et al, 2015) to model artefacts, their historical contexts, the heritage processes and all the actors interacting with buildings during the conservation process. Recently, a new workflow to integrate HBIM 3D data with semantic web technologies, including taxonomies, has been presented in (Quattrini et al, 2017).…”

A Scan-to-Bim Process for the Monitoring and Conservation of the Architectural Heritage: Integration of Thematic Information in a Hbim Model

“…The maintenance of architectural heritage is one of the main challenges for contemporary society and one of the most important tasks for governments and local administrations to preserve architectural knowledge as a unique and irreplaceable source of aesthetic, historical and cultural values (Cursi et al, 2015). New and continuous solutions in the study and management of architectural heritage are therefore necessary to implement investigations for monitoring and risk prevention and to develop tools for protection.…”

“…The monitoring of architectural heritage is developed in the actions, carried out periodically or continuously, through measurement over time of certain parameters that influence the condition of the building, providing important information on the * Corresponding author condition of the asset to foresee possible interventions. The possibility of managing the whole information related to the knowledge of an architectural asset is often a difficult task linked to the huge amount of data required and therefore to their management over time (Cursi et al, 2015) Although several researchers have been interested in this topic, the multidisciplinary of the information has revealed the need to find an appropriate tool capable of managing and archiving data from different fields. At the beginning of the 21 st century, processes applied to the life cycle of buildings and civil infrastructure began to be reformulated towards a new representation technology based on the development of generative processes of Building Information Model (BIM); this methodology can also be applied to the digitization of the building heritage, allowing the improvement of numerous processes related to the management and monitoring of the historical-cultural heritage asset (Moyano et al, 2022).…”

Close Future: Co-Design Assistant - How Proactive design paradigm can help

“…Gray -the Google Earth inventor -and now it is no more a taboo to deal with inconsistent entities, f.e. different interpretations of archaeological site entities (Cursi et al 2015) or putting together ontologies and shape grammars (de Klerk and Beirao 2016).…”