A semantic-based platform for the digital analysis of architectural heritage

• Published in: Computers & graphics Vol. 35; no. 2; pp. 227 - 241
• Main Authors: De Luca, Livio, Busayarat, Chawee, Stefani, Chiara, Véron, Philippe, Florenzano, Michel
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Elsevier Ltd 01.04.2011; Elsevier
• Subjects: Architectural heritage; Architecture, space management; Buildings; Computer Science; Conservation; Digital; Documentation; Humanities and Social Sciences; Information systems; Internet; Library and information sciences; Mathematical models; Modeling and Simulation; Multiple representations; Platforms; Representations; Semantic description; Semantics; Semantic description; Multiple representations; Architectural heritage; Internet; Information systems
• ISSN: 0097-8493; 1873-7684
• DOI: 10.1016/j.cag.2010.11.009

This essay focuses on the fields of architectural documentation and digital representation. We present a research paper concerning the development of an information system at the scale of architecture, taking into account the relationships that can be established between the representation of buildings (shape, dimension, state of conservation, hypothetical restitution) and heterogeneous information about various fields (such as the technical, the documentary or still the historical one). The proposed approach aims to organize multiple representations (and associated information) around a semantic description model with the goal of defining a system for the multi-field analysis of buildings. Four “points of view” on the building morphology composed by three parallel levels of description: semantic, structure and representation. Top-left: analysis of sculptures; top-right: analysis of profiled elements; bottom-left: analysis of the architectural order and bottom-right: analysis of materials. [Display omitted] ►Producing and managing multiple representations of buildings according to different analysis needs (Section 3.1). ► Establishing links between the 3D morphology of buildings and the collection of 2D iconographic sources necessary for their study (Section 3.2). ► Analyzing and representing the transformation of buildings in time (Section 3.3).