Management of Architectural Heritage Information in BIM and GIS: State-of-the-Art and Future Perspectives

Abstract

Information management technology is widely used in a variety of fields and it proved its great potentials also for the Cultural Heritage (CH) sector. Considering the management of architectural heritage information, there exists a distinctive factor which does not exist in any other field: a multi-layered spatial character in the third (or even fourth) dimension. Moreover the semantical enrichment of threedimensional (3D) digital models by integrating heterogeneous datasets has a crucial importance. Nevertheless, the organization and structuring of such information is considerably difficult although very useful for better conservation and management purposes. Accordingly, researchers have recently developed different techniques for the coherent and reliable management of information related to architectural heritage. The approaches so far developed have pros and cons since data processing and visualization is not a simple and straightforward process. The paper presents a review of the current management approaches for architectural heritage information with Building Information Modeling (BIM) and Geographic Information Systems (GIS) tools, illustrating up-to-date approaches and describing possible future research directions.

From 2d to 3d Supervised Segmentation and Classification for Cultural Heritage Applications

“…Some works aim to define a procedure for the integration of archaeological 3D models with BIM (Saygi et al 2013;De Luca et al 2014). Sithole (2008) proposes an automatic segmentation method for detecting bricks in masonry walls working on the point clouds, assuming that mortar channels are reasonably deep and wide.…”

“…Management of architectural heritage information is crucial for better understanding heritage data and for the development of appropriate conservation strategies. An efficient information management strategy should take into consideration three main concepts: segmentation, structuring the hierarchical relationships and semantic enrichment (Saygi et al, 2013). But the demand for automatic model analysis and understanding is ever increasing.…”

Building Information Modelling for Cultural Heritage: A review

“…However, researchers have recently developed different techniques for the reliable and coherent management of information related to cultural heritage (Saygi and Remondino, 2013). The first usage of the BIM for existing buildings was in research of Arayici in 2008.…”

Cultural Heritage Documentation in Sis Environment: An Application for "Porta Sirena" in the Archaeological Site Of Paestum

“…The representation of the objects and environment of the CH field can be obtained using different products and solutions derived in different way, such as the vectorial feature, such as Computer-Aided Design (CAD), Esri shape file, Point Clouds, Building Information Modeling (Saygi et al, 2013) and raster information, such as ortophoto and elevation model. Following, a description of the several vector and raster format, is reported.…”