Abstract
In recent years, Historic Building Information Modelling (HBIM) methodology has strengthened the documentation and interpretation of archaeological contexts and is regarded as a breakthrough in relation to established methodologies and analyses. Change is also taking place regarding web and cloud-based solutions, and this work acknowledges the importance of cloud-based and web HBIM solutions applied to Cultural Heritage assets and archaeology. More than ever, online platforms are becoming useful services to ease data exchange and validation between collaborators and stakeholders, establishing multidisciplinary approaches. Despite the presence of different cloud-based platforms, Heritage asset documentation can hardly be managed by environments or software developed for architecture and construction design. For this reason, this project is strongly founded on four pillars: online documentation, collaboration, communication and accessibility. Cognisant of these needs, the paper is aimed at the development of a custom HBIM cloud platform for archaeology, on the basis of the BIMData open-source online environment. This platform, called ARK-BIM, can be considered a modular solution leaning on HTML, JavaScript, VueJS, XEOKIT and open-source languages.
Highlights
This work was the result of several reflections on Building Information Modelling (BIM) documentation, accessibility and data-exchange referring to archaeological contexts.How can online documentation and data exchange of archaeological projects—carried out by BIM methodology [1,2]—be implemented? Do collaborators and project members may have a web HBIM environment designed for archaeology in common? how canFree and Open-Source Software (FOSS) solutions contribute to this development?This project began by following the experience of a three-year PhD-research programme on custom HBIM for archaeology via open-source tools [3], following the actual needs of accessibility and data-exchange related to the Historic Building Information Modelling (HBIM) projects of Heritage assets
Cloud-BIM platforms have had a great influence on data transparency and accessibility, for Industry Foundation Class (IFC) files, and related BuildingSMART standards [5,6,7,8], and for external semantic data linked to the objects
The developed custom-tailored plugins could make a valuable contribution to data exchange and boost data management and revision processes
Summary
This project began by following the experience of a three-year PhD-research programme on custom HBIM for archaeology via open-source tools [3], following the actual needs of accessibility and data-exchange related to the Historic Building Information Modelling (HBIM) projects of Heritage assets This design can be considered the natural continuation of a previous work in progress related to the initial proposal of a custom BIM platform web development [4]. Being widely adopted for architecture and constructions inside BIM applications, the IFC format has become a standard open format regularized by the International Organization for Standardization (ISO); through these standards [5,6,7,8], the IFC schema and dictionary have been set, including the types, entities and functions of BIM objects This semantic information is fundamental for data exchange and interoperability, both for BIM software and cloud-based services. This cloud-based solution is a complete, stable and secure suite for data sharing and exchange, especially regarding BIM projects carried out via Autodesk
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