Built Heritage Interface Models Multipurpose information access and data exchange

The research investigates models as interfaces to the built heritage, intended as representation forms and strategies for multipurpose information access and data exchange to enhance collaboration among practitioners and promote communication with stakeholders and generic audiences. After analyzing the research keywords through a theoretical framework, the study focuses on different methods and techniques for digital model development from data acquisition and processing, according to specific purposes and priorities. This focus relies on both literature review and real case studies, including integrated survey campaigns and paying particular attention to accessible and interoperable workflows also through the exploration of open solutions. Follows a section oriented to the potential uses of the developed models, offering some fruition options to allow specialized and generic users to access technical and cultural data. The point of view of different professional categories of the construction supply chain is further investigated through a questionnaire disseminated in the Province of Trento on data exchange and collaboration forms, digital tools adoption, and built heritage data collection and processing. Some of the solutions tested within the research are made available in tools such as self-orientation surveys and a check-list as user-friendly and easily accessible alternatives to traditional guidelines to promote knowledge transfer and benefit from further contamination between the academic state of art and professional praxis.