The Importance of Being Honest

Abstract

The chapter presents a reflection on the concept of transparency in digital modeling and visualization of Architectural Heritage. Moving from topics of transparency and from the experiences in using paradata in different fields to state model's source, the degree of reliability of virtual re-constructions, and to made the digital model testable by other professionals, transparency and paradata are studied and declined for a dedicated application to historical buildings. In fact paradata is useful for model's design, use, management, diffusion, archiving, and interoperability. This according to an aim of model's intellectual transparency, and scientific computing and visualization of historic buildings. Follows issues about: the relationship between physical and digital heritage, the design of the digital 3D model and the database, the communication of transparency through spatial visualizations and multiple windowed representations, the transparency as possible methodological workflow for scientific analysis.

Survey, Data Analysis and Modeling Raphael’s Stables in Villa Farnesina, Rome

“…In addition, three-dimensional modeling tools help to verify the reconstruction hypotheses according to a process that declares the levels of approximation obtained [27] per the "scientific transparency" and "historical rigor" of the Charter of London and Seville [28,29]. From this point of view, constructing interpretative models [30] encompassing the interpretation of the survey and historical documents is a remarkably complex process.…”

Smart Architectural and Urban Heritage: An Applied Reflection

“…In this context, the digital technologies have become increasingly important, first of all because they are an integral part of everyday life, and second, because they offer new ways of viewing information: in particular, the different forms of mixed reality [5] allow the superimposition of information of different nature on architectural heritage without interfering with its materiality, i.e., by acting only in the dimension of the visual [6]. This application to cultural heritage can favor the development of new forms of smart heritage.…”