Restoration Site sheet GIS: Use of Digital Tools for Collecting Data on Heritage Site intervention

This contribution aims to illustrate the author's research work within the research group HBIMSIG-Turismo at the Universitat Politècnica de València. The research between Rome and Valencia connects two investigative realities in different fields and locations through an exchange and collaboration. The investigation intends to define a digital methodology for recovering the knowledge emerging from restoration site interventions on “widespread” cultural heritage. Conservation interventions represent fundamental moments in the history of buildings as they allow for a direct understanding of the material reality of the asset. Therefore, preserving the memory of these interventions is crucial to ensuring thorough and updated knowledge of the heritage and for the virtuous management of future interventions on the asset. The illustrated case study is situated in the historic centre of the city of Rome, in the ancient Rione Parione. The protection of widespread private heritage is extremely complex in this tourist area. The interventions subject to archiving involve the external surfaces of two buildings that are part of a vast and varied heritage within the multi-layered historic city. The authors have defined an operational tab called the Restoration Site sheet to collect and share information related to these interventions. This digital database guides the user in filling it out. Sharing the research group's experience regarding the tourist management of the public space adjacent to the Cathedral of Valencia has enabled the integration of the digital Restoration Site sheet within a georeferenced GIS model. This work illustrates the methodology used to integrate geometric-spatial data into a semantic model (database) designed to meet a specific need: preserving the memory of conservation site interventions on cultural heritage.