ABSTRACT
The great social, cultural and economic losses caused by seismic events on the cultural heritage assets have stimulated, in the last decades, a great research effort in the development of new integrated knowledge-based approaches and tools for their protection from earthquake-induced risk. In Bam, south Iran, a huge earthquake killed 25000 people and destroyed the greatest historical complex of adobe buildings 2000 years old. The 1997 earthquake in Italy damaged over 8000 historical buildings, including the Basilica of S. Francesco and the frescoes by Giotto. The parametrisation of the information and its organisation within the procedures of the data warehouse was a relevant result, since the actual usability of the information is the main issue of most of the existing data management systems. One of the main benefits of the data warehouse is a nearly instant evaluation of the scarcity of information and the subsequent need of further investigations and new applications.
