TY - CPAPER
KW - Climate change
KW - Ontology
KW - Semantic features
KW - Semantics
KW - Small Historical urban centres
KW - Spatial objects
KW - Spatial reasoning
KW - Sustainable development
KW - Urban mapping
KW - Urban planning
AU - M. Kokla
AU - M. Mostafavi
AU - F. Noardo
AU - A. Spano
AB - Historical small urban centres are of increasing interest to different interacting fields such as architectural heritage protection and conservation, urban planning, disaster response, sustainable development and tourism. They are defined at different levels (international, national, regional), by various organizations and standards, incorporate numerous aspects (natural and built environment, infrastructures and open spaces, social, economic, and cultural processes, tangible and intangible heritage) and face various challenges (urbanization, globalization, mass tourism, climate change, etc.). However, their current specification within large-scale geospatial databases is similar to those of urban areas in a broad sense resulting in the loss of many aspects forming this multifaceted concept. The present study considers the available ontologies and data models, coming from various domains and having different granularities and levels of detail, to represent historical small urban centres information. The aim is to define the needs for extension and integration of them in order to develop a multidisciplinary, integrated semantic representation. Relevant conventions and other legislation documents, ontologies and standards for cultural heritage (CIDOC-CRM, CRMgeo, Getty Vocabularies), 3D city models (CityGML), building information models (IFC) and regional landscape plans are analysed to identify concepts, relations, and semantic features that could form a holistic semantic model of historical small urban centres.
C2 - ISPRS Ann. Photogramm. Remote Sens. Spat. Inf. Sci.
DO - 10.5194/isprs-archives-XLII-2-W11-675-2019
N1 - Issue: 2/W11 Journal Abbreviation: ISPRS Ann. Photogramm. Remote Sens. Spat. Inf. Sci.
N2 - Historical small urban centres are of increasing interest to different interacting fields such as architectural heritage protection and conservation, urban planning, disaster response, sustainable development and tourism. They are defined at different levels (international, national, regional), by various organizations and standards, incorporate numerous aspects (natural and built environment, infrastructures and open spaces, social, economic, and cultural processes, tangible and intangible heritage) and face various challenges (urbanization, globalization, mass tourism, climate change, etc.). However, their current specification within large-scale geospatial databases is similar to those of urban areas in a broad sense resulting in the loss of many aspects forming this multifaceted concept. The present study considers the available ontologies and data models, coming from various domains and having different granularities and levels of detail, to represent historical small urban centres information. The aim is to define the needs for extension and integration of them in order to develop a multidisciplinary, integrated semantic representation. Relevant conventions and other legislation documents, ontologies and standards for cultural heritage (CIDOC-CRM, CRMgeo, Getty Vocabularies), 3D city models (CityGML), building information models (IFC) and regional landscape plans are analysed to identify concepts, relations, and semantic features that could form a holistic semantic model of historical small urban centres.
PB - Copernicus GmbH
SN - 21949042 (ISSN)
SP - 675
EP - 683
TI - Towards building a semantic formalization of (small) historical centres
UR - https://www.scopus.com/inward/record.uri?eid=2-s2.0-85065670300&doi=10.5194%2fisprs-Archives-XLII-2-W11-675-2019&partnerID=40&md5=c0acec772f79fa7fe32575094e2889c1
VL - 42-2
ER -