Semantically Describing Urban Historical Buildings Across Different Levels of Granularity

Colucci, Elisabetta; Kokla, Margarita; Mostafavi, Mir Abolfazl; Noardo, Francesca; Spano, Antonia Teresa

doi:10.5194/isprs-archives-xliii-b4-2020-33-2020

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“…There are many ontologies, standards, vocabularies, conceptualisations and regulations for geographic information and architectural heritage representation. These include the core ontology CIDOC-CRM and its specifications (https://www.cidoc-crm.org/), the Getty Vocabularies (https://www.getty.edu/research/tools/vocabularies/), the CityGML standards for built heritage and buildings' representation with different level of details (https://www.ogc.org/standards/citygml) and many others (as reported in Colucci et al, 2020). Moreover, many researchers have tried to define ontologies in the built heritage domain.…”

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confidence: 99%

Minor Historical Centres Ontology Enrichment and Population: An Hamlet Case Study

Colucci

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Kokla

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Int. Arch. Photogramm. Remote Sens. Spatial Inf. Sci.

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Abstract. The main topic of this work focuses on the semantic, historical and spatial documentation of Minor Historical Centres (MHC) with a focus on (semi-abandoned alpine) hamlets. The key point is the possibility to standardise spatial information in the domain of MHC and their related cultural, architectural, built and landscape heritage. This work analyses the notions of historical centre and ancient area, which took different meanings and evolved over the centuries. MHC are historical part of cities, villages and hamlets (urban, rural, minor or abandoned) with cultural, social and economic values. Thus, MHC need to be preserved, documented and safeguarded. The spatial and semantic documentation is a fundamental tool for increasing their knowledge. In these places, many actors and stakeholders are involved in different activities, and for this reason, they need to share common knowledge and use a unique language. In this regard, spatial ontology is of relevant interest and usability. Ontologies are conceptual structures that formalise specific knowledge and create a unique and standard thesaurus that ensures semantic interoperability. This paper is part of a PhD research targeted at developing an ontology containing helpful information to manage, share and collect data on MHC due to the lack of an interoperable structure to formalise such knowledge. The main aim is to populate and enrich the already developed ontological structure with data of a mountain semi-abandoned hamlet: Pomieri. The methodological workflow is validated, enriching and populating the ontology, adding classes and instances with information and unstructured data of a real data case study.

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confidence: 99%

Minor Historical Centres Ontology Enrichment and Population: An Hamlet Case Study

Colucci

Lingua

Kokla

et al. 2022

Int. Arch. Photogramm. Remote Sens. Spatial Inf. Sci.

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“…Incorporating value and vulnerability (in terms of HUL's knowledge and planning tools) emphasized the BIM's ability to enhance proficiency in instances where various designs are implemented, making advanced maintenance tasks possible by delivering simulation, computation, and analysis to support planning [39,89]. Integration of BIM and diagnosis-aided HBIMM with artificial intelligence for automation might be the instrument to assess the computation, structural vulnerabilities, and surveying unsatisfactory condition grades within the platform of BIM acting as a decision-making support system [34].…”

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Urban Heritage Facility Management: A Scoping Review

2021

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This review examines current discussions from the cross-section study between urban heritage conservation and urban facility management fields in the academic literature from 2011–2020. The purpose is to identify the gaps within the examined papers to reveal the challenges and opportunities in the combined fields using the United Nations Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organization (UNESCO)’s recommendation of the historic urban landscape (HUL) approach. The scoping review procedure was followed. The six critical steps and four supporting tools of the HUL approach were used to analyze the examined papers. Most aspects of urban heritage management within the body of literature were directly related to urban-scale facility management. The potential usage of building information modelling became one of the most discussed technological aspects. The expansion of the public–private partnership model into the public–private–people partnership is considered as a new potential business model. At the same time, the adaptive reuse approach is deemed to be the most sustainable method of managing heritage areas. This scoping review identified the financial tools as the most under-researched urban heritage facility management component. Therefore, it needs to be endorsed among the scientific communities to improve the knowledge and provide operable guidelines for the authorities and practitioners in the urban heritage field.

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“…It is challenging to integrate UHB information into a KG as the data quality varies and rarely one-size-fits-all solutions can be applied. Whereas domain-agnostic KGs treat UHBs as iconic buildings or a tourist attraction (Colucci et al, 2020), which neglect and omit UHBs' cultural attributes. Worse still, the semantic and multi-hop relationships among UHBs cannot be fully presented by the conventional website-based query provided by domain-agnostic KG.…”

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Knowledge Graph Enabled Representation and Exploration for Urban Historical Buildings: A Case Study in Beijing, China

Cao

Guo²,

Jiang³

2022

Int. Arch. Photogramm. Remote Sens. Spatial Inf. Sci.

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Abstract. Urban Historical Buildings (UHBs) preserve the past and memory of a city. Collecting and managing UHB knowledge efficiently is of vital importance to protect local culture heritages and meet the demands of sustainable development. However, UHB knowledge is commonly hidden in the texts from different sources, making it hard to access and manage by general methods efficiently. Meanwhile, domain agnostic knowledge graphs are challenging to express the rich semantic and multi-hop relationships among UHB knowledge. To address the above problems, we proposed a general framework for the extraction and management of the key knowledge from free texts about urban historical buildings. In this study, we attempted to build an UHB knowledge graph from free texts obtained from Internet. Firstly, we designed the UHB domain ontology to regulate the knowledge of urban historical building. Next, the structured knowledge was extracted from web text with Natural Language Processing (NLP) technologies. Finally, we built the UHB knowledge base and developed a Beijing UHB knowledge graph. Furthermore, we demonstrated knowledge retrieval and visualization based on UHB knowledge graph. Our experiment shows that mining UHB knowledge from free text is feasible and important for urban historical building conservation efforts.

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Semantically Describing Urban Historical Buildings Across Different Levels of Granularity

Cited by 7 publications

References 19 publications

Minor Historical Centres Ontology Enrichment and Population: An Hamlet Case Study

Minor Historical Centres Ontology Enrichment and Population: An Hamlet Case Study

Urban Heritage Facility Management: A Scoping Review

Knowledge Graph Enabled Representation and Exploration for Urban Historical Buildings: A Case Study in Beijing, China

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