Land Administration Standardization for the integration of cultural heritage in land use policies

Abstract

The understanding of the cultural space is vital for the implementation of successful integrated land use policies. While most countries have their own strategy for the protection of their cultural heritage, implied by the state or international organizations – UNESCO and the European Union – yet, there is a long way until they adopt a standardized modeling approach for the management of their cultural heritage. Nowadays, there is a great deal of interest in the digital documentation and visualization of the cultural objects, together with the quest for new technologies for efficient management. As a result, the utilization of international standards and models for land administration is in the forefront.In this paper, the utilization of standardized modeling and more specifically the Land Administration Domain Model (LADM) is examined, as a basic tool for the development of spatial infrastructure for the archeological space, in other words the immovable cultural heritage of Greece. The LADM (approved as an official International Standard on 1st December 2012) defines terminology for land administration and can include the identification and quantification of the various rights, restrictions and responsibilities (RRRs) that appear in the public or private properties with cultural interest, the detailed description of the spatial information of these properties, the extended representation of their spatial information on three dimensions and finally the adoption of good practices offered by the process of standardization. The interoperability of the systems in the land administration domain through the standardization process is another challenge that this paper aims to reach.