Classification and systematisation of digital documentation

Documentation and digital representation represented the crucial nodes of the doctoral thesis “Optimisation of survey pro- cedures and application of integrated digital tools for seismic risk mitigation of cultural heritage: The damaged theatres of Emil- ia-Romagna” developed within the XXXIV cycle of the IDAUP International Doctorate, University of Ferrara. These two aspects underlie and feed the procedural workflow developed in the research iter, whose goal is to provide an application methododology for the collection, acquisition, and hierarchisation of data and information related to seismic damage for the complex typology of historic theatres. The primary purpose of the integrated workflow of damage survey procedures is to provide multi-criteria, multi-level systematic documentation that ensures the optimised mitigation, management, and monitoring of seismic damage by systematising multiple layers of information (MIC damage forms, archival historical information, iconographic and photographic data, and morphometric digital 3D models) within a single HBIM information “container”. The operation of systematisation of the information and data collected represents a knowledge step to discretising the geometric components and quantitative and qualitative parameters necessary and valuable for the information populating the parametric model so that it can be an interpretable, interoperable documentation tool that can be used by all the actors operating in the post-emergency and reconstruction phase. This contribution illustrates, in particular, the integrated application methodological workflow of the damage survey on two case studies of the doctoral research: the Borgatti Theater and the Theater of Novi di Modena.