It can be generically referred to the process by which the survey data are collected. In particular, paradata is a kind of metadata focused on the use of data, and moreover it describes the transformation of data during their “inter-use” in participatory systems. According to the definition presented by The London Charter (2009) AU81: The in-text citation "London Charter (2009)" is not in the reference list. Please correct the citation, add the reference to the list, or delete the citation. – focused on its use in 3D computer based visualizations – paradata is: “Information about human processes of understanding and interpretation of data objects. Examples of paradata include descriptions stored within a structured dataset of how evidence was used to interpret an artefact, or a comment on methodological premises within a research publication. It is closely related, but somewhat different in emphasis, to ‘contextual metadata’, which tend to communicate interpretations of an artefact or collection, rather than the process through which one or more artefacts were processed or interpreted.”
Published in Chapter:
The Importance of Being Honest: Issues of Transparency in Digital Visualization of Architectural Heritage
Stefano Brusaporci (L'Aquila University, Italy)
Copyright: © 2017
|Pages: 28
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-5225-0675-1.ch003
Abstract
The chapter presents a reflection on the concept of transparency in digital modeling and visualization of Architectural Heritage. Moving from topics of transparency and from the experiences in using paradata in different fields to state model's source, the degree of reliability of virtual re-constructions, and to made the digital model testable by other professionals, transparency and paradata are studied and declined for a dedicated application to historical buildings. In fact paradata is useful for model's design, use, management, diffusion, archiving, and interoperability. This according to an aim of model's intellectual transparency, and scientific computing and visualization of historic buildings. Follows issues about: the relationship between physical and digital heritage, the design of the digital 3D model and the database, the communication of transparency through spatial visualizations and multiple windowed representations, the transparency as possible methodological workflow for scientific analysis.