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A Semantic Web Approach for Built Heritage Representation

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Computer-Aided Architectural Design Futures. The Next City - New Technologies and the Future of the Built Environment (CAAD Futures 2015)

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In a built heritage process, meant as a structured system of activities aimed at the investigation, preservation, and management of architectural heritage, any task accomplished by the several actors involved in it is deeply influenced by the way the knowledge is represented and shared. In the current heritage practice, knowledge representation and management have shown several limitations due to the difficulty of dealing with large amount of extremely heterogeneous data. On this basis, this research aims at extending semantic web approaches and technologies to architectural heritage knowledge management in order to provide an integrated and multidisciplinary representation of the artifact and of the knowledge necessary to support any decision or any intervention and management activity. To this purpose, an ontology-based system, representing the knowledge related to the artifact and its contexts, has been developed through the formalization of domain-specific entities and relationships between them.

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This research was partially supported through a Research Project of National Interest (“Built Heritage Information Modelling/Management - BHIMM”, 2012) funded by the Italian Ministry of Education University and Research.

The authors are grateful to Gianfranco Carrara from Sapienza University of Rome and Karen Kensek from University of Southern California for supporting this research with useful comments, suggestions and feedbacks.

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    Stefano Cursi & Davide Simeone

  2. University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA, USA

    Ilaria Toldo

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Cursi, S., Simeone, D., Toldo, I. (2015). A Semantic Web Approach for Built Heritage Representation. In: Celani, G., Sperling, D., Franco, J. (eds) Computer-Aided Architectural Design Futures. The Next City - New Technologies and the Future of the Built Environment. CAAD Futures 2015. Communications in Computer and Information Science, vol 527. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-662-47386-3_21

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