Tutorial 5 - Integrated Environments for Cultural HeritageKnowledgeIntegrated Environments for Cultural HeritageKnowledge

Abstract

Restoration and conservation actions on buildings of historic importance are generally performed relying on wide and heterogeneous information de- scribing their degradation status. The high quality of this information is most important for designing appropriate action strategies. Typically, this is a hard task for Cultural Heritage experts not provided with computer sci- ence background and computational tools easy to understand and use. A deep knowledge of the buildings conservation status requires preprocessing of the acquired data, while dedicated procedures generate new data for further processing, integrating for instance techniques for image analysis and synthe- sis. Appropriate fusion of data and efficient ways of information presentation to the user can highlight significant conceptual links. This Tutorial course presents an overview of some fundamental methodologies that must be devel- oped in such integrated environments, and discuss a case study where different computing methodologies are deployed.