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The progressively more complex management of dynamic data flows that digital files produce, connected

with the use of increasingly more achievable technologies, is guiding academic research toward the develop-

ment of documentation and modeling systems that anticipate, together with the models themselves, calcu-

lation codes with the objective of programming activities and interconnectivity between the models and the

digital databases.

The information gathered in the current activities related to the documentation of patrimony are often

overabundant with regard to the established objectives and, in some cases, not sufficient for fully representing

some of the immaterial aspects related to the cultural value of historical patrimony. Consequently, there is a

strong need to organize the very structure of knowledge so that technologies made available to us can be used

by selecting the data necessary to define a cognitive map made up of information that in the form of images

and digital models can be converted into improved and implementable tools, as such generating direct and

synthetic information necessary to produce knowledge.

An informative and interactive database made up by the merging of models or metadata is then converted

into the instrument through which it is possible to conserve the historical memory of cultural patrimony, such

as an architectural complex, a museum system, or an intangible asset.

The model from which the metric component assumes a fundamental role that determines it and relates

it to all aspects of reliability can be converted into either a tool for the management of assets in terms of pro-

gramming short, medium and long-term interventions, or an instrument for evaluation. Digital models, con-

Views of the point

clouds of the Fuerte

de la Concepción.

Located at the

northwest of the wall,

the fort is “connected”

to the Misericordia

Gate by the outlines

of the walls that are

visible from the road.

THE WALLS OF SANTO DOMINGO AND DOCUMENTATION OF THE CONSTRUCTION PROJECTS BY THE ANTONELLI FAMILY