Integrated Workflow for Public Administration: From Data Collection to the Management Platform for Built Heritage

The paper presents a methodology aimed at responding to the needs of the Public Administration (PA), from the data acquired to the data management. This is because the Administration is the guarantor of most of the existing heritage and it’s necessary to be aware of what they had to require in the Tender notice in view of the use of the information during the entire life-cycle of the estate. The analysis begins its development by documenting, through statistical surveys and observations of services on the web, respectively the level of digitisation of the PA, in terms of databases, and the format with which the data are extracted from the national and regional platforms, to understand the semantic language on which the proposal can be developed. The investigation, therefore: started from an in-depth examination of the acquisition of the existing heritage through the point clouds; moved from the conversion into a three-dimensional informative model; passed to the open .ifc schema; and arrived at the GIS-based Management platform. At each stage, analysing the relationship with the data (so the rough information) and its hypothetical management by an employee of a Public Office. The original proposal of management, of the information from the platform, of a generic PA, therefore, considers the digital solutions, now already widespread in the profession, and the technical possibilities of the final users, assuming a concrete and consequential character. Data integration, accessibility to information and data mapping are thus closely linked to the method of acquiring knowledge.