Representation and Visualization of Urban Fabric through Historical Documents

International audienceDocuments serve an important role in understanding change in urban fabric. The available multidimensional (spatial, temporaland thematic) information in these documents narrate not only the various features of the elements of the urban fabric but alsonotifies their changes during time. CityGML standard is used to spatially and temporally represent the city objects. But it missesfeatures to represent city lifecycle and its linked documents. The first part has been addressed recently. In this article, we proposean extension to CityGML standard to integrate city objects and relevant associated documents. Proposing a solution based onstandards permits data interoperability. We also briefly describe how these documents are visualized in our current 3D urbanenvironment prototype built over CityGM