Cultural Heritage and Digital Tools: the Rock Interoperable Platform

Abstract

The digitisation of urban cultural heritage (CH) is recognised within EU (European Union) policies as an opportunity to make CH a driver for urban transformation towards a sustainable and inclusive future. Various digital platforms are emerging as tools not only to store, retrieve, compare and process different kind of data related to CH for the use of urban planners and administrators, but also as participative tools for distributed decision-making.The increasing integration between the physical and digital realm through various digital instruments such as the Internet of things, virtual and augmented reality, machine learning and natural language processing, has led designers to conceptualise the necessity of merging different smart city dashboards and platforms into an integrated system known as the urban digital twin (DW). This task can be made possible only through the construction of a shared ontology of the city, which allows the interoperability of different data systems.The DWs, originally developed in mechanical and process engineering, allow to construct a digital model of a physical object or process, to monitor its real-time performance, to perform maintenance tasks and to test the effects of planned changes. However, when extending the notion of the DW to complex cultural and social entities such as cities, it is important to consider also issues of inclusivity and citizen participation. How can the DW be conceptualised not only as a tool of technological control or narrative, but as an instrument to empower not only institutions but also citizens? The experience gathered in the construction of the ROCK platform and its participatory ontology, developed within the Horizon 2020 (H2020) funded project ROCK (GA 730280), becomes an important precedent in this task.

The Promotion of Cultural Heritage Protection Driven by Artificial Intelligence in the Context of Hemei Rural Construction

“…There are many text elements in inscriptions and poems. Among the natural elements, there are ginkgo leaves in the autumn of Yuelu Mountain, which contain the meaning of time and study; There is Ziyang Cinnamomum camphora planted by Zhu Xi for Meiji learning ambition; White horses led by people who drink horses [11,12]. By following the above design principles and using elements reasonably, we can design related scene root carving products around the story.…”

Artificial Intelligence Driven Promotion of Cultural Heritage Protection in the Context of Harmony Rural Construction

“…There are many text elements in inscriptions and poems. Among the natural elements, there are ginkgo leaves in the autumn of Yuelu Mountain, which contain the meaning of time and study; There is Ziyang Cinnamomum camphora planted by Zhu Xi for Meiji learning ambition; White horses led by people who drink horses [11,12]. By following the above design principles and using elements reasonably, we can design related scene root carving products around the story.…”

Use Cases for District-Scale Urban Digital Twins

“…Only through the creation of a shared ontology of the city can this task be accomplished, making it possible for the different data systems to communicate with each other. DTs, however, also need to consider aspects such as inclusivity and citizen participation when extending the concept into complex cultural and social entities like cities (Turillazzi et al, 2021). Dembski et al (2019a,b) present the development of a DT in VR for civic engagement in urban planning of the town Herrenberg in Germany with a population of 30,000.…”