A semantic web approach for built heritage representation

In a built heritage process, meant as a structured system of activities aimed at the investigation, preservation, and management of architectural heritage, any task accomplished by the several actors involved in it is deeply influenced by the way the knowledge is represented and shared. In the current heritage practice, knowledge representation and management have shown several limitations due to the difficulty of dealing with large amount of extremely heterogeneous data. On this basis, this research aims at extending semantic web approaches and technologies to architectural heritage knowledge management in order to provide an integrated and multidisciplinary representation of the artifact and of the knowledge necessary to support any decision or any intervention and management activity. To this purpose, an ontology-based system, representing the knowledge related to the artifact and its contexts, has been developed through the formalization of domain-specific entities and relationships between them

Recovering Sicilian Silk Heritage through Digital Technologies: The Case of Piraino's Collection

Textile conservation has given rise to small and medium-sized museums, usually with scarce resources. In Sicily, the little evidence that remains of silk production and opulent imports by the rich and powerful local aristocracy is kept in museums, parishes, and other cultural institutions. The documentation, dissemination, and enhancement of such a fragile heritage is today possible by means of technological tools that provide novel means to preserve, analyze, and exploit digital information. In this paper, we present some outcomes of the SILKNOW project, a project that applies computing research to the needs of diverse users (museums, educational institutions, the tourism industry, creative industries, media, etc.) and preserves the tangible and intangible heritage associated with silk. We show the methodology followed to build end users' needs into the Virtual Loom, a tool that deals with the 3D reconstruction of silk fabrics at the yarn level. We also provide a real example of how to integrate it at the museum level, specifically, at Piraino's Collection. The results demonstrate how small and medium-sized museums can access tools that will help them to carry out their daily tasks

Report of the Stanford Linked Data Workshop

The Stanford University Libraries and Academic Information Resources (SULAIR) with the Council on Library and Information Resources (CLIR) conducted at week-long workshop on the prospects for a large scale, multi-national, multi-institutional prototype of a Linked Data environment for discovery of and navigation among the rapidly, chaotically expanding array of academic information resources. As preparation for the workshop, CLIR sponsored a survey by Jerry Persons, Chief Information Architect emeritus of SULAIR that was published originally for workshop participants as background to the workshop and is now publicly available. The original intention of the workshop was to devise a plan for such a prototype. However, such was the diversity of knowledge, experience, and views of the potential of Linked Data approaches that the workshop participants turned to two more fundamental goals: building common understanding and enthusiasm on the one hand and identifying opportunities and challenges to be confronted in the preparation of the intended prototype and its operation on the other. In pursuit of those objectives, the workshop participants produced:1. a value statement addressing the question of why a Linked Data approach is worth prototyping;2. a manifesto for Linked Libraries (and Museums and Archives and …);3. an outline of the phases in a life cycle of Linked Data approaches;4. a prioritized list of known issues in generating, harvesting & using Linked Data;5. a workflow with notes for converting library bibliographic records and other academic metadata to URIs;6. examples of potential “killer apps” using Linked Data: and7. a list of next steps and potential projects.This report includes a summary of the workshop agenda, a chart showing the use of Linked Data in cultural heritage venues, and short biographies and statements from each of the participants

Influence of national policies on the sustainability of heritage from the architectural and urban design perspective

The aim of this report is to reflect on urban policies and how they affect the issue of sustainability in heritage. The decentralized character of Spanish geopolitics and the transference of power to the different autonomous governments both in terms of heritage management but also architectural and urban policies in general, make one autonomous region the proper framework for this study. Therefore, we have structured the document as follows: 1) Andalusia, Spain. National, Regional and municipal policies. 2) Regulatory framework 3) The international context. International reference texts and charters 4) The protection of cultural heritage in Andalusia (Spain). The Andalusian Institute of Historical Heritage (IAPH) 5) Reference

Dancing into the digital age: experimenting the digitization of the Pauliteiros folk dances

Digitizing intangible cultural heritage is a crucial step in preserving and protecting traditions, customs, and knowledge that have been passed down from generation to generation. By creating a comprehensive record of intangible cultural practices, digitization allows for greater access, research, and education, promoting cultural diversity and understanding. This paper discusses approaches to the digitization of intangible cultural heritage, which allow the dissemination and preservation of knowledge applicable to folk dances, particularly in the context of ethnographic museums. Possible applications with this motion data will also be explored, such as Virtual Reality, Augmented Reality or video games. This paper finally discusses and proposes a framework for digitization of folk dances based on the practical case of the 'Dança dos Paulitos' or 'Dança dos Pauliteiros' [1], a Portuguese festive dance ritual tradition from Miranda do Douro in northeastern Portugal.info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersio

Historic Building Information Modeling: from historical database platform to fully suitable and multidisciplinary design instruments

The aim of the research intends to provide innovative solutions to the more and more hard challenge of organizing in a virtuous manner the information concerning the architecture patrimony: the realization of complex parametric models could guarantee a formal, architectural and relational coherence, inside a shared virtual system. The HBIM (Historical Building Information Modeling) represent virtual models for cultural assets, essential supports to archive, compare, manage and design heterogeneous data that constitute the building: its analysis give the possibility to interpret it in a sort of “asis” model, made by deductions coming from information derived by archivist, geometrical and topology data contained into the virtual model. The report will focus particularly on the case study of the V Pavillion made by Riccardo Morandi nearby the Torino Esposizioni exhibition building cluster: built using the prestressed technology on concrete lowered arcs, it passed very fast from being an iconic building of the excellent Italian engineering school of the postwar period, to a debatable and malfunctioning municipal garage. For this reason the virtual model could be helpful to collect on one side a fully shared information database capable to transfer all the historical path of the building, and on the other the efficient and multidisciplinary instruments supporting future design interventions on the next period

Virtual museums, new media arts and sound archives

DOI Livro 10.34619/hwfg-s9yyVirtual museums are new ways of promoting cultural experiences and are also important repositories for safeguarding new examples of artistic, cultural and social heritage, with the added advantage of being potentially global. They have been adapted to collect digital artefacts and new forms of intangible art, which are, generally speaking, media arts. In this sense, virtual museums are also a challenging place for the collection of sound contents. Considering the Portuguese example, where there is a legal vacuum in terms of archive policies for sound, this text examines the opportunity that platforms of this kind may represent for the preservation of sonic-based memories. Prepared under the scope of the research project Audire: Saving Sonic-Based Memories, which is currently being developed at the Communication and Society Research Centre, University of Minho, this text also discusses the role that governments should play in defining parameters for the creation of sound libraries.This work was produced under the scope of the project Audire – Audio Repository: Saving Sonic-Based Memories, co-funded by the Operational Programme for Competitiveness and Internationalisation and by the Portuguese Foundation for Science and Technology (PTDC-COM-CSS/32159/2017)

Arab-norman heritage: state of knowledge and new actions and innovative proposal

This paper wants to offers a perlustrative recognition on the 'state of the studies', concerning to the Arab-Norman architecture of Palermo, admissed by Unesco in 2015 and explain a research in progress which, starting from re-cognition of the peculiarities of the restoration work carried out on it, consisting of the identification of authentic material-constructive values and / or reconstruction, it orients itself to develop a concrete proposal of filing for a more conscious knowledge. She, moreover, want\u2019s contribute to real enhancement through the use of targeted communication strategies that use innovative means capable, on one hand, to attracting the greatest possible number of users, on the other hand, to plan further interventions of conservation coherent with the previous data. The product that you want to achieve is that of a Bank-data that allows the "networking" of monumental emergencies, that become the virtual itineraries waypoint, which can be implemented periodically and whose boards meet the cataloging needs and documentation but with reference at georeferiti-systems, compatibles with the conservation and management of heritage and with need of usability, real and virtual