Recording and publishing to ensure informed choices for future generations

Conservation of architectural heritage requires a critical understanding of the significance, conditions and complexity of an existing building. Getting used to the building under different aspects is an essential element of the conservation planning process and provides a long-term foundation for the monitoring, maintenance and management of a site. The management of a great number of data and information acquired during the knowledge phase, moreover when they are related to a large building, needs a continuous awareness of the position of the single data within the entire complex and of the spatial, temporal and functional connections among every architectural element. The paper illustrates an application of GIS (Geographic Information System) for conservation of a historical building, which takes advantage of the particularity of this system of overlaying and combining graphical, textual and numerical information together. The achievement of this experimentation will be the publishing of the project as a web-gis which allows all the interested parts to easily access and consult the documentation recorded and use these information to make well-informed decisions about the conservation of built heritage and produce or improve its knowledge.