Abstract
Abstract. Within the EU funded project INCEPTION – Inclusive Cultural Heritage in Europe through 3D semantic modelling, the key-targeted achievement is the development of a specific cloud based platform, in order to accomplish the main objectives of accessing, understanding and strengthening European Cultural Heritage by means of enriched 3D models. The whole INCEPTION project is based on the close connection between state-of-the-art architectural modeling technologies (BIM, Building Information Modeling) and the latest cutting-edge web technologies. The platform is grounded on semantic web technologies and makes extensive use of WebGL and RESTful APIs, in order to enrich heritage 3D models by using Semantic Web standards. The INCEPTION platform will be a space for interchange of information and for the dialogue among professionals, students, scholars, curators, non-expert users, etc. Furthermore, the Semantic Web structure interlinks the platform with external Cultural Heritage available linked data and makes it gradually enhanced by specific flexible data structures provided as project specific ontologies. The paper will describe solutions based on the match between BIM, Cloud and Semantic Web.
Highlights
The ongoing INCEPTION project, which will end in May 2019, aims to inspire and engage more and more people to discover and understand Europe's cultural heritage, and preserve these assets to future generations
The H-BIM ontology has been developed to remap the architectural features from ifcOWL and to integrate them with the architectural elements specific of the Cultural Heritage domain, starting from 3D models developed as INCEPTION demonstration cases
Several users with different skills in the field of Cultural Heritage have been involved leading the research toward effective strategies to increase use and reuse of digital models. These strategies are aimed at maximizing the impact of using digital data for cultural heritage applications involving a wide range of non-expert and expert users, starting from specific requirements for processing, managing, delivering cultural heritage information to a broad audience. This complexity of the cultural domain is well handled by the Semantic Web technologies: the INCEPTION ontology uses the triple store to filter the information by time frames, scope or significance, to correctly inform the user to his skills and purposes
Summary
The ongoing INCEPTION project, which will end in May 2019, aims to inspire and engage more and more people to discover and understand Europe's cultural heritage, and preserve these assets to future generations. INCEPTION supports Heritage information, ranging from data acquisition, analysis, data management, 3D documentation, new forms of interaction, according to the interdisciplinary approach and to a specific methodology (holistic documentation, optimized data acquisition, data analysis, classification, and interpretation). Working at heritage architecture and site scale allows the identification of the cultural heritage buildings semantic ontology and data structure for information catalogue. Part of project activities has been addressed to a modelling approach within the 3D semantic Heritage-BIM: the integration of semantic attributes with hierarchically and mutually aggregated 3D geometric models to manage heritage information. 3D parametric and semantic modelling lead to the development of semantic 3D reconstructions of heritage buildings and sites, integrated with additional documents (i.e. pictures, maps, literature) and intangible information Part of project activities has been addressed to a modelling approach within the 3D semantic Heritage-BIM: the integration of semantic attributes with hierarchically and mutually aggregated 3D geometric models to manage heritage information. 3D parametric and semantic modelling lead to the development of semantic 3D reconstructions of heritage buildings and sites, integrated with additional documents (i.e. pictures, maps, literature) and intangible information
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