The past is never dead. It's not even past. 3D models for the knowledge of cultural heritage

The research aims to define the operative procedure for constructing digital archives based on three-dimensional models generated by massive and fast acquisition of data regarding objects of architecture. Today digital objects have become a tradition in the cultural production and a business cycle with the objective to disseminate and communicate cultural data. The problem centers on a definition of data necessary for setting up digital archives. These data will be extracted from material obtained from surveys as well as from informative documentation and need to be chosen and structured. Hence the research aims at identifying the kind of information, tangible and intangible, principal and essential of the Architectural object and classifying them into distinctive and characteristic categories which make it possible to cognize the given object.