A European Interoperable Database (Eid) to Increase Resilience of Cultural Heritage

Abstract

<p><strong>Abstract.</strong> The set of laws, actions and organizations for Cultural Heritage (CH) protection is born in the different countries of the European Union from local cultural situations, so the ability to cope with the emergency is certainly different. In addition to the damages that can occur to cultural assets after a disaster, an inadequate emergency intervention can sometimes cause further losses to the CH.<br> The effectiveness of response depends on the adequacy of advanced planning. Some countries have designed emergency plans but their databases (DBs) are fragmented, incomplete and not standardized. It is thus necessary to establish a DB for emergency assistance and maps of CH at risk to be compared with maps of natural hazards and risks, in order to take preventive and operational measures, as well as agree on a common terminology and international standards. The project aims to enhance the capability of Civil Protection to prevent disasters impacts on CH by implementing a European Interoperable Database (EID) as supporting decision tool to understand the risk of damage to cultural assets.<br> The EID, starting from the international standards to represent the map objects (CityGML, INSPIRE), the classification of CH in Europe (UNESCO), in Italy (MiBACT), in Germany and in France and from risks and disasters analysis, will design, with its Conceptual Data Model, an extension of the INSPIRE UML model. This DB will also support 3D models to help finding and recognizing dispersed artworks and facilitate a post-emergency restoration, preserving thus a digital memory in case of destruction.</p>

Semantically Describing Urban Historical Buildings Across Different Levels of Granularity

“…Hois et al, 2009 about the architectural and built heritage and also the more general heritage conceptualizations consider this as one of the most important goals), but a lot of potential about specific developments is still there. Regarding heritage risk prevention, not an ontology, but a specific data model was proposed starting from standardised structures and vocabularies within the ResCult project (Chiabrando et al, 2018).…”

“…In addition, it is important to mention the research methods and tools made in the field of geographical and spatial information and modelling to manage and document cultural and architectural heritage. For example, extensions of the Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC) CityGML standard were proposed (Noardo, 2018;Mohd et al, 2017;Egusquiza et al, 2018), as well as of the INSPIRE data model (Chiabrando et al, 2018;Fernández-Freire et al, 2013). Recently, the use of HBIM technology was proposed for boosting the interoperability in the management of preservation plans in cultural heritage: e.g.…”

Hbim in a Semantic 3d Gis Database

“…To reach this objective, an interoperable database named EID (European Interoperable Database) was designed with a LOD subdivision ( Fig. 1) (Chiabrando et al, 2018). The designing of the DB considered the will to set up a new methodology able to link and connect the CH with the Risk and Hazard analysis, as well as create a DB interoperable as much as possible.…”

Towards Building a Semantic Formalization of (Small) Historical Centres

“…UNESCO) is already included. However, some studies exist, also in this case, to extend the model with a higher level of detail in the description (Fernández-Freire et al, 2013;Colucci et al, 2018;Chiabrando et al, 2018).…”