TY - JOUR KW - cultural heritage KW - Geographical standard KW - INSPIRE KW - Interoperability KW - Risk and vulnerability analysis KW - Spatial database AU - Elisabetta Colucci AU - Francesca Matrone AU - Francesca Noardo AU - Vanessa Assumma AU - Giulia Datola AU - Federica Appiotti AU - Marta Bottero AU - Filiberto Chiabrando AU - Patrizia Lombardi AU - Massimo Migliorini AU - Enrico Rinaldi AU - Antonia Spano AU - Andrea Lingua AB - Purpose: The study, within the Increasing Resilience of Cultural Heritage (ResCult) project, aims to support civil protection to prevent, lessen and mitigate disasters impacts on cultural heritage using a unique standardised-3D geographical information system (GIS), including both heritage and risk and hazard information. Design/methodology/approach: A top-down approach, starting from existing standards (an INSPIRE extension integrated with other parts from the standardised and shared structure), was completed with a bottom-up integration according to current requirements for disaster prevention procedures and risk analyses. The results were validated and tested in case studies (differentiated concerning the hazard and type of protected heritage) and refined during user forums. Findings: Besides the ensuing reusable database structure, the filling with case studies data underlined the tough challenges and allowed proposing a sample of workflows and possible guidelines. The interfaces are provided to use the obtained knowledge base. Originality/value: The increasing number of natural disasters could severely damage the cultural heritage, causing permanent damage to movable and immovable assets and tangible and intangible heritage. The study provides an original tool properly relating the (spatial) information regarding cultural heritage and the risk factors in a unique archive as a standard-based European tool to cope with these frequent losses, preventing risk. DO - 10.1108/JCHMSD-04-2021-0068 N1 - Publisher: Emerald Group Holdings Ltd. N2 - Purpose: The study, within the Increasing Resilience of Cultural Heritage (ResCult) project, aims to support civil protection to prevent, lessen and mitigate disasters impacts on cultural heritage using a unique standardised-3D geographical information system (GIS), including both heritage and risk and hazard information. Design/methodology/approach: A top-down approach, starting from existing standards (an INSPIRE extension integrated with other parts from the standardised and shared structure), was completed with a bottom-up integration according to current requirements for disaster prevention procedures and risk analyses. The results were validated and tested in case studies (differentiated concerning the hazard and type of protected heritage) and refined during user forums. Findings: Besides the ensuing reusable database structure, the filling with case studies data underlined the tough challenges and allowed proposing a sample of workflows and possible guidelines. The interfaces are provided to use the obtained knowledge base. Originality/value: The increasing number of natural disasters could severely damage the cultural heritage, causing permanent damage to movable and immovable assets and tangible and intangible heritage. The study provides an original tool properly relating the (spatial) information regarding cultural heritage and the risk factors in a unique archive as a standard-based European tool to cope with these frequent losses, preventing risk. TI - Documenting cultural heritage in an INSPIRE-based 3D GIS for risk and vulnerability analysis UR - https://www.scopus.com/inward/record.uri?eid=2-s2.0-85125768264&doi=10.1108%2fJCHMSD-04-2021-0068&partnerID=40&md5=e3c197f260804a31c4563a9f535ee092 SN - 20441266 (ISSN) ER -