Advanced 3D Survey and Modelling for Enhancement and Conservation of Cultural Heritage: The INCEPTION Project

Digital documentation technologies combined with innovative analytical techniques and digital tools can be an effective strategy supporting multidisciplinary documentation and modelling aimed at conservation, enhancement and preservation of Cultural Heritage. New technologies and digital devices should play an important innovative role to understand, access, enhance and preserve Cultural Heritage. In this framework, the ongoing project INCEPTION Inclusive Cultural Heritage in Europe through 3D semantic modelling – funded by the European Commission within the Programme Horizon 2020 – proposes a workflow aimed at the achievements of efficient 3D digitization methods, post-processing tools for an enriched semantic modelling, web-based solutions and applications to ensure a wide access to experts and non-experts. The implementation of data collection processes and the development of semantically enriched 3D models is an effective way to enhance the dialogue between ICT technologies, different Cultural Heritage users and different disciplines, both social and technical. Moreover, INCEPTION deals with complex heritage architectures and sites; in order to manage this complexity, a common protocol for data capturing has been developed, considering the uniqueness of each heritage site, accuracy and reliability, additional data and semantic proprieties to be recorded for different heritage applications.