DAr2Ca [modalità compatibilità]

GRID and Cultural Heritage
In Mediterranean Area
Giuseppe Di Gregorio, Mariangela Liuzzo,
Graziana D’Agostino, Giulia La Ganga Vasta, Salvatore Scifo
DAr2Ca - COMETA
The research provides a digital archive of the Cultural Heritage in 20
Mediterranean Nations.
The idea is that, in the past, Mediterranean populations had continuous social
and cultural exchanges, beyond geographical borders and that this osmotic
process, that has always brought together populations, today more than ever
must be exploited.
Cultural Heritage constitutes the first step in the cultural process of collaboration
among populations, in fact thank to ancient culture and societies we can better
comprehend different identities. The aim is to involve international scientific
communities to expand and examine the database.
•The basic level of the archive foresees the insertion of the results of the census
of 7118 ancient Architectural and Archaeological Heritage present in
Mediterranean Area.
•The second level foresees the digital insertion of the data-fiches regarding 5000
cultural buildings present in Sicily.
•The advanced level foresees an in-depth study regarding the Pilot Project of the
Risk Map at local scale in Taormina.
•Another work is the survey with 3D laser scanner of some relevant architectural
and/or archaeological buildings presents in different Mediterranean nations.
The defining the folders structure and the metadata schema to store and classify
the digital material; then users (specialist or simple visitor) can navigate the
archive and browse/search for photographs, drawings, documents. Thank to the
Grid Security Infrastructure, authorized users can access to data and only special
users are able to change the database.
The final aim is:
•To make available the results of the research all around the world;
•To divulge a culture of surveying and cataloguing with advanced technology.
•To create an international dialogue concerning cultural heritage.
Slovenia
45
Croatia
252
Bsnie--Erzagovine
Bsnie
60
France
730
Portugal
49
Montenegro
56
Spain
674
Turkey
864
Greece
1348
Marocco
83
Algeria
211
Tunisia
405
Malta
277
Cyprus
189
Lebanon
197
Palestinian territories
105
Lybia
300
Egypt
556
Jordan
218
Israel
489
Database - 1°level of informatin
Identity
code
Nation
Area
District
Locality
Municipality
Hamlet
Type
Denomination
-
Turkey
Del Mediterraneo
-
Turkey
-
Turkey
Hierarchy
Tipology
Adana
Ceyhan
-
-
architettonico
Castello di
Yilankalecisterna
individuo
Infrastrutture
e servizi
Del Mediterraneo
Antalya
Andriake
Demre
-
archeologico
Andriake
(granai)
individuo
Civile
Del Mediterraneo
Karaman
-
-
-
archeologico
Monastero di
Alahan
complesso
Religioso
The Risk Map
At present, the Risk Map of cultural and ambient heritage is the maximum study and widening for the cultural heritages management; it is a project edited by Ministero dei
BB. CC. AA. at national level and received by a few districts. In Sicily this project and his attuation is edited by Centro Regionale per la Progettazione ed il Restauro. The
study activity, initially, attend to three principal categories of cultural heritages: archaeological heritages, architectural heritages and containers of artistic heritages built after
1950. The Risk Map project provides a cognitive initial phase which aims at the creation of data on the consistency and distribution in the territory of the cultural
heritages.The second phase concerns the survey of the vulnerability parameters of the heritages and those riskness of the territorial area.The finish phase of synthesis tries
to locate the risk areas and their riskiness level and also to identify the principal parameters of decay and, at last, to assume the intervention priorities in function of the
structural emergencies and the historical-artistic importance.
The Map Risk project doesn’t only deal architectural and archaeological heritages, but also it develops studies and researches about the submerged heritage, the mobile
object in confined environment, the demoetnoantropologic heritage, the anthropic and natural landscape.
Database - 2°level of information
Address
Current
Denomination
Denomination
of origin
Building
Subject
Conservation
status
History
period
Author
Client
S.Caterina
d’Alessandria
d’Egitto (retro)
Odeon romano
Odeon romano
-
-
resti
Età imperiale
II sec.
-
-
Via
Naumachie
Naumachie
Naumachie
-
-
-
Età imperiale
-
-
Study and
survey’s source
Database’s
suorce
Enclosures
Note
-
Banca dati
Carta del
Rischio
Photos
Dwg
documents
-
-
Banca dati
Carta del
Rischio
Photos
Dwg
documents
-
Date of updating
L’Odeon Romano di Taormina
Photo
Mesh
Texture Mappimg
Il Ginnasio Greco-Romano di Taormina (Naumachie)
Texture Mappimg
Digital Archive based on the Grid Storage System
The distributed nature of the Grid makes it the right infrastructure to
realize a powerful shared archive for archaeological and
architectural digital objects and it is also the natural environment to
execute specific algorithm on these files. Such archive is created
on the Data Grid Services that allow to define both the folders
structure to store all digital objects and the metadata schema to
classify the digital material. Through a simple and efficient web
interface users (visitor role) can navigate the archive and
browse/search for pictures, drawings, documents. Thank to the
Grid Security Infrastructure (based on the X509 digital certification),
only authorized users (administrative role), can access to both data
and metadata and they are able to change the status of the
databases.
Architecture Overview
Grid offers three main service to build data driven application: the
Storage Element to host Physical Files; the File Catalogue to
register a Logical File Name for each file and the Metadata
Catalogue to associate Descriptive Attributes (also called metadata)
with every file stored on the Grid. The whole database is mapped
into Metadata Catalogue and every entry will point to more than one
logical files representation in order to keep trace about the
relationship between archaeological data and digital objects.
Point cloud
Mesh
Native Software Framework
The Dar2ca digital archive is powered on GSAF(Grid Storage Access Framework). It is an Object Oriented framework (based on the white
box model) developed to create Data Grid Application such us digital archives. It allows developers to extend applications with middleware
data management functionalities. Moreover, GSAF introduces the Transaction Layer capability at client side permitting transactional
operation sequence on the same dataset.
Oceanographic
Astrophisics
Archaeological
BioInformatics
Grid Storage Access Framework
(Data Management APIs, Vertical architecture, Knowledgment gap)
GRID Middleware
(Redundancy, High Availability, Backup&Recovery, High Storage Capability, Security)
Transactional APIs
GSAF identifies a kind of Grid Software Engineering
Pattern offering a standard solution for a common
problems and shared features according to the principle
of the “building blocks”. It is built on top of the Grid Data
Services and exposes classes and related methods that
hide the complexity and the fragmentation of the several
underlying APIs for applications located above.
User authentication through VOMS
Scale 1:50