Determinación de protocolos para la documentación patrimonial en la ciudad de Cuenca-Ecuador

Abstract

Different information are being collected, stored and processed, in order to acquire knowledge to understand the heritage and making informed decisions to safeguard it. This means that documenting the buildings is an essential step into the conservation process and all those implicated need to access to existing information and at the same time produce new records that must be preserved and made available to other users over time.

Nowadays, the technology offers many tools for heritage documentation that not only assist in gathering and organizing heritage data-information but also they support the analysis and information display into new programs. However, if data standards are not developed to ensure the quality and usefulness of heritage information produced for management purposes; it cannot be shared, preserved and integrated into these digital platforms.

In this perspective, the aim of this research is to establish data standards for heritage documentation in Cuenca-Ecuador, where the computer technology has been focused on the data organization and records archiving but much less progress has been made to ensure the quality and usefulness of the information produced through the development of information protocols. To achieve this purpose, examples of existing protocols were studied and adapted to be applied into a study case for the establishment of new protocols as complement of the existing examples. The resulted guidelines would constitute an important tool for heritage documentation that fulfilled the requirements of new programs and facilitate the use, retrieval and sharing of valuable information.