The Information Communication Technologies are transforming our way to work and to live. Their social and economical impact represents a key opportunity for new development in every field of knowledge. Another event is the awareness of the importance of cultural heritage, and the needs of exploit and manage it: the number of visitors to museums, historical monuments and archaeological sites, grows day by day. The extension of the concept of cultural heritage of various nature, the relationship between their conservation and the relative fruition issues new challenges such as the combined utilisation of various databases online, the creation of supranational and multilingual dictionaries. The rapid obsolescence of technologies furthermore imposes the attention to data storage. However, the aspects, which most involve the online user, are both the interface and easy access to different subjects and contents. This paragraph will provide a general overview on different approaches developed in Italy care of Regione Lombardia: SIRCoP, MMS and MIMS projects. Regione Lombardia was and still is one of the leading authorities at national level in the field of planned conservation. The S.I.R.Co.P. (Scheduled Conservation Information System) was launched by Regione Lombardia in year 1999 within a research and training framework related to the ICR work on “Risk Map”. The general framework was derived as a follow up of the risk map and implementation of the basic idea of BAA (Archivio Beni Architettonici ed Ambientali -“environmental and architectural assets” archive) extensions in the field of scheduled maintenance. The HyperMediaGroup of Politecnico di Milano was in charge, together with a team of experts, for the feasibility study and architecture definition of the Information System.In the S.I.R.Co.P. vision the Information System acts as glue amongst different modules and activities foreseen archiving and managing information and data. One of the relevant issues is to turn the “extraordinary maintenance” trend toward “scheduled maintenance”. Unfortunately even today many aspects are pushing “extraordinary maintenance” including both financial and fiscal aspects and procedures; such a trend implies the lack of authenticity of historical artefacts and major costs. On the opposite S.I.R.Co.P. promotes scheduled maintenance and conservation according to a timetable and granularity proposed care of experts and the Information System itself. Starting from the upper level the Information System will collect and redistribute relevant information and case study. Locally it will offer flexible archiving tools and later on it will operate as historical information source useful in order to evaluate the consistence of historical buildings patrimony and keep track of changes and provide support to managers. This will specifically support both political and technical decisions providing priorities and possible pathologies on the basis of technical data base. S.I.R.Co.P. - Information System - starting from the upper level the Information System will collect and redistribute relevant information and case study. Locally it will offer flexible archiving tools and later on it will operate as historical information source useful in order to evaluate the consistence of historical buildings patrimony and keep track of changes and provide support to managers. In addition the long term data repository provides case study, statistical information and high quality content for educational purposes. This will specifically support both political and technical decisions providing priorities and foreseeing possible pathologies on the basis of technical data base. On the technological side the whole system is based on Internet technology sometimes integrated by interoperable stand-alone data collection systems. On running conditions all relevant architectural heritage of Regione Lombardia will be adequately stored within the S.I.R.Co.P. data base. But a truly integrated and modular approach was included in the parallel project called Monuments Information System (MIMS kernel). The idea of MIMS is dated 1997 but after several steps of feasibility study we are now in a position to launch the operational project. MIMS is a comprehensive solution ranging between data acquisition on the field and monument and site exploitation passing through conservation and management. Due to the richness of the built patrimony supervised by national and local authorities one of the weakness is the frequency and quality of technical surveys. In order to fit with available resources many times surveys are performed by students in architecture and civil engineering or poorly skilled personnel. The result is a non-homogeneous quality and frequently unfaithful set of surveys.

"Sistemi informativi multimediali per il patrimonio architettonico: i progetti BAA, SIRCoP e MIMS"

RONCHI, ALFREDO
2002-01-01

Abstract

The Information Communication Technologies are transforming our way to work and to live. Their social and economical impact represents a key opportunity for new development in every field of knowledge. Another event is the awareness of the importance of cultural heritage, and the needs of exploit and manage it: the number of visitors to museums, historical monuments and archaeological sites, grows day by day. The extension of the concept of cultural heritage of various nature, the relationship between their conservation and the relative fruition issues new challenges such as the combined utilisation of various databases online, the creation of supranational and multilingual dictionaries. The rapid obsolescence of technologies furthermore imposes the attention to data storage. However, the aspects, which most involve the online user, are both the interface and easy access to different subjects and contents. This paragraph will provide a general overview on different approaches developed in Italy care of Regione Lombardia: SIRCoP, MMS and MIMS projects. Regione Lombardia was and still is one of the leading authorities at national level in the field of planned conservation. The S.I.R.Co.P. (Scheduled Conservation Information System) was launched by Regione Lombardia in year 1999 within a research and training framework related to the ICR work on “Risk Map”. The general framework was derived as a follow up of the risk map and implementation of the basic idea of BAA (Archivio Beni Architettonici ed Ambientali -“environmental and architectural assets” archive) extensions in the field of scheduled maintenance. The HyperMediaGroup of Politecnico di Milano was in charge, together with a team of experts, for the feasibility study and architecture definition of the Information System.In the S.I.R.Co.P. vision the Information System acts as glue amongst different modules and activities foreseen archiving and managing information and data. One of the relevant issues is to turn the “extraordinary maintenance” trend toward “scheduled maintenance”. Unfortunately even today many aspects are pushing “extraordinary maintenance” including both financial and fiscal aspects and procedures; such a trend implies the lack of authenticity of historical artefacts and major costs. On the opposite S.I.R.Co.P. promotes scheduled maintenance and conservation according to a timetable and granularity proposed care of experts and the Information System itself. Starting from the upper level the Information System will collect and redistribute relevant information and case study. Locally it will offer flexible archiving tools and later on it will operate as historical information source useful in order to evaluate the consistence of historical buildings patrimony and keep track of changes and provide support to managers. This will specifically support both political and technical decisions providing priorities and possible pathologies on the basis of technical data base. S.I.R.Co.P. - Information System - starting from the upper level the Information System will collect and redistribute relevant information and case study. Locally it will offer flexible archiving tools and later on it will operate as historical information source useful in order to evaluate the consistence of historical buildings patrimony and keep track of changes and provide support to managers. In addition the long term data repository provides case study, statistical information and high quality content for educational purposes. This will specifically support both political and technical decisions providing priorities and foreseeing possible pathologies on the basis of technical data base. On the technological side the whole system is based on Internet technology sometimes integrated by interoperable stand-alone data collection systems. On running conditions all relevant architectural heritage of Regione Lombardia will be adequately stored within the S.I.R.Co.P. data base. But a truly integrated and modular approach was included in the parallel project called Monuments Information System (MIMS kernel). The idea of MIMS is dated 1997 but after several steps of feasibility study we are now in a position to launch the operational project. MIMS is a comprehensive solution ranging between data acquisition on the field and monument and site exploitation passing through conservation and management. Due to the richness of the built patrimony supervised by national and local authorities one of the weakness is the frequency and quality of technical surveys. In order to fit with available resources many times surveys are performed by students in architecture and civil engineering or poorly skilled personnel. The result is a non-homogeneous quality and frequently unfaithful set of surveys.
2002
Information technology ed automazione del progetto
9788884530400
Planned conservation; Building Information Systems; Surveys
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