Work performed under six technical WPs and Dissemination and Management includes several results that can be summarized as follows:
- Methodology framework and collaborative cross-disciplinary setting up, identifying and mapping stakeholders’ knowledge demands, consolidation of users’ key requirements and establishing a broad and dedicated stakeholder panel, deepening the significance of the digital integrated documentation of cultural heritage assets (WP1);
- Advancement in Heritage data capturing and documentation by developing a Data Acquisition Protocol and the realization of the concept of optimized firmware for 3D data acquisition of Cultural Heritage and enhancement of 3D laser scanner devices (WP2);
- Advancement in managing 3D models supporting the storing of CH information by developing an integrated software architecture for HBIM graphic-semantic interoperability. Web service for the semantic organization of targeted information related to heritage buildings and sites; H-BIM ontology combining architectural classification elements and external enriched information; Plug-in for REVIT to extract primary parametrical features from point clouds; Plug-in for REVIT to interconnect the different surveying and imaging instruments to BIM are main achieved results (WP3);
- Development of the INCEPTION H-BIM Platform. This development includes a very structured reusable component based setup making use of many available (open source) solutions around the Semantic Web based Fuseki-2 database with Sparql end-point. Many components and converters have been developed to support parsing content from open standards like IFC, Collada, ISO STEP AP’s. The two main complex tasks tackled were using real Semantic Web content including storing the geometry from very large data sets and still being able to have a high-performance H-BIM platform; combining textured data and real BIM data via different open standards from different source applications within one powerful Web based 3D viewer embedded in the platform (WP4);
- Development of use cases and nine Demonstration Cases in six different countries (IT, ES, NL, CY, EL, HR), testing INCEPTION outcomes and methodologies on different heritage sites and buildings, and developing an Exploitation plan for each Demo case (WP5);
- Development of user applications addressing all defined stakeholders and users, tested and validated through Demonstration Cases. Applications include CH Condition Assessment and Asset Management Tool; User application for on-site deployment (AR app); User application for off-site deployment (VR app), immersive Virtual Reality application aims particularly at optimizing the off-site exploration and visualization interface.
All applications work through the 3D models stored on the INCEPTION Platform (WP6).
A wide range of exploitation activities has been carried out, including identification of INCEPTION’s core business plan for the platform, eight Key Exploitable Results (KERs), case related Business Plans (BP) for nine demonstration cases, in addition to strategies for Intellectual Property Rights (IPR). The intensive Dissemination activity has been performed through the participation in several national and international conferences, workshops and events also promoted by the EU Commission, often by invitation. Several scientific publications have been delivered (WP7).
