ABSTRACT
For fifteen years, the ARQUIGRAFIA project has been creating smart data to preserve and enable access to the cultural heritage of Brazilian architecture and urban spaces. This path provided a set of tools for representing and retrieving photographic information, as a result of the digitisation of physical collections of images as well as digital images freely uploaded by users. The ARQUIGRAFIA has thus developed an internal system of subjective interpretations of architectures based on binomials of plastic-spatial qualities in order to encourage users to closely observe images and formulate judgments about buildings and urban spaces represented in photographs. Additionally, a Knowledge Organisation System has been developed, considering the definitions of terms and their interrelationships that describe such images. Synchronously, it has functioned as an incubator for pilot projects such as Open Air Museum, that associates audio messages with georeferenced photographic images. Currently, experiments with AI resources in partnership with the Digital Collections and Research team have tested different Computer Vision models to analyse the set of images available in the ARQUIGRAFIA. These experiments have collected data on art and design, uncovering layers of the collection’s legibility that were not evident in its original cataloguing.
