Towards an Advanced Conservation Strategy: A Structured Database for Sharing 3d Documentation Between Expert Users

Abstract

<p><strong>Abstract.</strong> Nowadays, the researchers in Cultural Heritage fields investigate more and more about advanced conservation strategies that comprehend the possibility to share and use 3D models and structured information related to them. One of the modern method adopted to achieve this goal is to use structured web-platform. These are online systems that can handle data, created to contain and support precise information. They simultaneously respond to the need for a <q>common</q> ground for different expert users and of a unique tool where to store several kinds of data, coming from heterogeneous sources. The article aims to show how it is possible to build a valid tool for the conservation and monitoring activities of CH, following the national and international legislation and the specific needs of the application field. In particular, it will deepen the criteria to build a 3D model that has to link a database of information, specifying the logic behind it. In the same way, it will show how to structure a database collaborating with the local institutions and experts, following the real needs of the site. The benefit is that this kind of tools gives to the multi-disciplinary works and projects a shared environment for storing and view a different type of data. They can help both the access intended to the conservation activities and both they can open to the public. The application field is the Sacri Monti circuit, which is part of the UNESCO World Heritage List since 2003.</p>

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“…One of the primary goals and challenges of the paper is the illustration of the newly developed user classification and the resulted diagrams with the main purpose being to categorise the users based on their needs and knowledge regarding the Cultural Heritage assets and digitisation process (Achille et al 2019). Figure 1 presents the multidisciplinary community of experts and users involved in the holistic documentation and knowledge of the Horologion of Philippi, which is one of the case studies of the Mnemosyne project.…”

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“…The technical developments in photogrammetry-based and scanning-based reality capturing have allowed for easy-to-use instrumentation, automatized three-dimensional (3D) shape reconstruction, and color texturing methodologies for documenting the conditions of historic structures, which enables monitoring and on-site inspections [20,21]. An equally important advantage of these advancements is that, through the generation of high-fidelity 3D models and point clouds, they have allowed for virtual fruition-remote inspection, maintenance management, and valorization via mobile and web-based platforms that utilize smart algorithms, augmented reality, and spatially aware content [22][23][24][25][26][27][28][29].…”