Holistic Heritage Building Information Modelling (Hhbim): From Nodes to Hub Networking, Vocabularies and Repositories

Abstract

HBIM (Heritage Building Information Modelling) can be nowadays considered as part of the digitization process of Cultural Heritage, with the particular characteristics that being born to manage Models and Data within a unique environment they can be inherited to adopt a synergic approach to the cultural Heritage 'as a whole system'. To this aim they need to overcome gaps and barriers undertaking an holistic approach in many directions. The paper intends to introduce an overview on the meaning of Holistic Heritage Information Building. The attribute holistic is here used with the meaning to empower instruments and methods capable to interconnect single HBIM nodes within networks where to find the information collected in a cross sectorial space: vocabularies, libraries of object and semantics, derived from such 'Informative Models' -with the support of Virtual Hub technologies -can boost nodes-networking empowering the capabilities of BIM Informative Modelling together with web accessible Geographic Informative System. Such richness once interconnected can be accessed from space-temporal queries, semantic searches, and harvested with other networks in order to enhance the cross correlation of the information and allowing the sharing of different case studies and HBIM within a space-temporal framework. This will allow the comparison of masonry texture, history of material finishing and skilled workers across space and time. HHBIM HUBS will be a gate toward the eXtended Reality potentials attracting and distributing data coming from different sources.

Criteria and Tools to Catalogue Brick-Masonry Vaults. The Gis-Database of Frame, a Fasce and Planterian Vaults Between the 16th and 18th Century in Northern Italy

“…However, there is no circulation of such data, which could implement the sharing of information. The increasing availability of HBIMs could allow access to these nodes in cross-sectorial studies (Brumana, Ioannides, & Previtali, 2019).…”

An Ontology-Based Representation of Vaulted System for HBIM

“…Sci. 2020, 10,1377 6 of 20 to model each building elements play a key role. For this reason, each building element is associated to survey.…”

“…However, several authors [7][8][9] have highlighted bottlenecks to an effective adoption of BIM, and even more of HBIM, in current practice. Brumana et al [10] underline that to increase the HBIM adoption it is necessary to undertake different actions devoted to tackle two of the main issues: improve the time-cost effectiveness and diminishing the technical gaps nowadays present in the HBIM workflow.…”

“…Sci. 2020,10, 1377 16 of The vaulted system web-client graphic user interface (GUI): (top) the vault inventory of the Cremona Palaces entered in the data model and the vault Database queried for a specific building, ID_08, Palazzo Magio, Cremona (Italy) and, (bottom) a query in for the area of Prague searching for cloister vaults connected with the historic map of the city along with the building vaults surveyed and classified.…”

Semantically Describing Urban Historical Buildings Across Different Levels of Granularity

“…Recently, the use of HBIM technology was proposed for boosting the interoperability in the management of preservation plans in cultural heritage: e.g. cloud-based platform enhancing metadata and semantic-based search to access open data (Brumana et al, 2019); operational proposals aiming at the demonstration of the usefulness of ontological approaches in semantic-based representation of buildings or important components of them (Niknam & Karshenas 2017;Previtali et al 2020). Despite this aforementioned research a lack in the nowadays scenario is still present.…”