Actual technologies are changing Cultural Heritage research, analysis, conservation and development ways, allowing new innovative
approaches. The possibility of integrating Cultural Heritage data, like archaeological information, inside a three-dimensional
environment system (like a Building Information Modelling) involve huge benefits for its management, monitoring and valorisation.
Nowadays there are many commercial BIM solutions. However, these tools are thought and developed mostly for architecture design
or technical installations. An example of better solution could be a dynamic and open platform that might consider Cultural Heritage
needs as priority. Suitable solution for better and complete data usability and accessibility could be guaranteed by open source
protocols. This choice would allow adapting software to Cultural Heritage needs and not the opposite, thus avoiding methodological
stretches.
This work will focus exactly on analysis and experimentations about specific characteristics of these kind of open source software
(DBMS, CAD, Servers) applied to a Cultural Heritage example, in order to verifying their flexibility, reliability and then creating a
dynamic HBIM open source prototype. Indeed, it might be a starting point for a future creation of a complete HBIM open source
solution that we could adapt to others Cultural Heritage researches and analysis