Abstract
In recent years, many efforts have been invested in the cultural heritage digitization: surveying, modelling, diagnostic analysis and historic data collection. Nowadays, this effort is finalized in many cases towards historical building information modelling (HBIM). However, the architecture, engineering, construction and facility management (AEC-FM) domain is very fragmented and many experts operating with different data types and models are involved in HBIM projects. This prevents effective communication and sharing of the results not only among different professionals but also among different projects. Semantic web tools may significantly contribute in facilitating sharing, connection and integration of data provided in different domains and projects. The paper describes this aspect specifically focusing on managing the information and models acquired on the case of vaulted systems. Information is collected within a semantic based hub platform to perform cross correlation. Such functionality allows the reconstructing of the rich history of the construction techniques and skilled workers across Europe. To this purpose an ontology-based vaults database has been undertaken and an example of its implementation is presented. The developed ontology-based vaults database is a database that makes uses of a set of ontologies to effectively combine data and information from multiple heterogeneous sources. The defined ontologies provide a high-level schema of a data source and provides a vocabulary for user queries.
Highlights
In the last decade, the advent of digital modelling tools and in particular the rise of the building information model (BIM) paradigm, changed completely the approach of representing ad managing the so called “built cultural heritage”
Several works in literature are proving the effectiveness of historical building information modelling (HBIM) as a new paradigm for managing restoration works, maintenance works and management of historical buildings [1,2,3,4,5,6]
The aim of this paper is to present the usefulness of a semantic-based tools in the BIM by expanding the approach presented in Niknam et al [19] to HBIM
Summary
The advent of digital modelling tools and in particular the rise of the building information model (BIM) paradigm, changed completely the approach of representing ad managing the so called “built cultural heritage”. Several works in literature are proving the effectiveness of HBIM as a new paradigm for managing restoration works, maintenance works and management of historical buildings [1,2,3,4,5,6]. BIM can represent a powerful tool to boost digital economy, for example in Europe the ‘Directive on Public Procurement’ (EUPPD 24/2014) asked the 28 EU countries to adopt ‘building informative modelling’ by February 2016 in order to support the whole LCM (life cycle management). Several authors [7,8,9] have highlighted bottlenecks to an effective adoption of BIM, and even more of HBIM, in current practice. Brumana et al [10] underline that to increase the HBIM adoption it is
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