(CIDOC-CRM): The CIDOC-CRM is an ontology that provides a representation of cultural heritage, aimed at supporting the full variability and richness of available information, and at harmonizing heterogeneous data. The CRM provides a core ontology that can manage museum, archive, library, and other specialized cultural datasets. Other specialist ontologies also exists as an extension of the main one: the FRBR model (for the semantics of bibliographic information), CRMSci11 (for integrating metadata about scientific observation measurements), CRMarchaeo (for encoding metadata about archaeological excavation processes).
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Drawing, Information, and Design: Tools and Perspective for Conservation
Donatella Fiorani (Sapienza University of Rome, Italy) and Marta Acierno (Sapienza University of Rome, Italy)
Copyright: © 2017
|Pages: 32
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-5225-0675-1.ch012
Abstract
Although widely employed within the Architectural Heritage conservation process, Information and Communications Technology (ICT) techniques still present many serious issues for the discipline. Current research highlights a possible methodological approach to devise an ICT instrument that could support activities for Cultural Heritage conservation, while maintaining full respect for the specifics of the discipline. Reviewing current ICT and Architecture Engineering and Construction (AEC) applications, it is possible to note that the proposed approach is at the moment reversed: modelling does not arise as the projection of a future object, but rather from the knowledge needed to represent an existing site as accurately as possible. The proposed goal, reflecting the operative methodology of the conservation process, seems to offer a greater range of representativeness and to resolve, at least, some of the critical topics that have arisen from the application of ICT to Cultural Heritage to date.