Informative modelling is an interdisciplinary

Interdisciplinarity

Interdisciplinarity involves the combining of two or more academic fields into one single discipline. An interdisciplinary field crosses traditional boundaries between academic disciplines or schools of thought, as new needs and professions have emerged....

  methodological approach
linking information technologies with architectural analysis and modelling
(at various scales, from architectural elements to buildings and structures).
Informative modelling aims at improving the way information

Information

Information in its most restricted technical sense is a message or collection of messages that consists of an ordered sequence of symbols, or it is the meaning that can be interpreted from such a message or collection of messages. Information can be recorded or transmitted. It can be recorded as...

and evidences about how architectural objects evolved through time can be visually displayed.

Informative modelling applies to the study of historic architecture,
where objects have most often been widely transformed, and consequently where what is known about objects
remains partial. As a consequence, whereas in traditional architectural modelling a realistic representation
of objects is considered as an end, in the informative modelling methodology the representation of
architectural objects is used primarily as support for information search and visualisation

Scientific visualization

Scientific visualization is an interdisciplinary branch of science according to Friendly "primarily concerned with the visualization of three-dimensional phenomena , where the emphasis is on realistic renderings of volumes, surfaces, illumination sources, and so forth, perhaps...

, reasoning and cognition

Cognition

In science, cognition refers to mental processes. These processes include attention, remembering, producing and understanding language, solving problems, and making decisions. Cognition is studied in various disciplines such as psychology, philosophy, linguistics, and computer science...

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it does not strive for realism.

Abstraction (the infovis legacy) and figuration (the architectural representation legacy)
are integrated as alternative/mixable modes of representation, allowing
partial knowledge to be communicated and important notions in historic sciences
such as data uncertainty to be conveyed graphically.

Informative modelling puts the data about evolutions of architectural artefacts first,
and provides rules for outputting 2D

2D computer graphics

2D computer graphics is the computer-based generation of digital images—mostly from two-dimensional models and by techniques specific to them...

/3D

3D computer graphics

3D computer graphics are graphics that use a three-dimensional representation of geometric data that is stored in the computer for the purposes of performing calculations and rendering 2D images...

 graphics thought to become sustainable investigation
and visualization

Software visualization

Software visualization is the static or animated 2-D or 3-D visual representation of information about software systems based on their structure, size, history, or behavior....

 tools (knowledge and discovery tools, as J.Bertin says it), striving for the readability
of a dynamic geographical map. Examples of such rules are accessibility of the underlying documentary
justification (archives, research material, etc.), information credibility assessment, visual underlining
of lacking information, relation to an exogenous theoretical model of architectural elements, dynamic visualisation,
research process progress assessment, etc.

Informative modelling has roots in architectural modelling, :Category:3D imaging, :Category:3D computer graphics, Georeference

Georeference

To georeference something means to define its existence in physical space. That is, establishing its location in terms of map projections or coordinate systems. The term is used both when establishing the relation between raster or vector images and coordinates, and when determining the spatial...

, database

Database

A database is an organized collection of data for one or more purposes, usually in digital form. The data are typically organized to model relevant aspects of reality , in a way that supports processes requiring this information...

,
scientific modelling

Scientific modelling

Scientific modelling is the process of generating abstract, conceptual, graphical and/or mathematical models. Science offers a growing collection of methods, techniques and theory about all kinds of specialized scientific modelling...

, scientific visualization

Scientific visualization

Scientific visualization is an interdisciplinary branch of science according to Friendly "primarily concerned with the visualization of three-dimensional phenomena , where the emphasis is on realistic renderings of volumes, surfaces, illumination sources, and so forth, perhaps...

, knowledge visualization, Knowledge management

Knowledge management

Knowledge management comprises a range of strategies and practices used in an organization to identify, create, represent, distribute, and enable adoption of insights and experiences...

, information retrieval

Information retrieval

Information retrieval is the area of study concerned with searching for documents, for information within documents, and for metadata about documents, as well as that of searching structured storage, relational databases, and the World Wide Web...

, Information science

Information science

-Introduction:Information science is an interdisciplinary science primarily concerned with the analysis, collection, classification, manipulation, storage, retrieval and dissemination of information...

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Computer graphics

Computer graphics

Computer graphics are graphics created using computers and, more generally, the representation and manipulation of image data by a computer with help from specialized software and hardware....

, Information graphics

Information graphics

Information graphics or infographics are graphic visual representations of information, data or knowledge. These graphics present complex information quickly and clearly, such as in signs, maps, journalism, technical writing, and education...

, and intersects methods
and issues stemming from these disciplines.

Related research areas

• Scientific visualization
  Scientific visualization
  Scientific visualization is an interdisciplinary branch of science according to Friendly "primarily concerned with the visualization of three-dimensional phenomena , where the emphasis is on realistic renderings of volumes, surfaces, illumination sources, and so forth, perhaps...
  
  
• Knowledge visualization
• Knowledge management
  Knowledge management
  Knowledge management comprises a range of strategies and practices used in an organization to identify, create, represent, distribute, and enable adoption of insights and experiences...
  
  
• Scientific modelling
  Scientific modelling
  Scientific modelling is the process of generating abstract, conceptual, graphical and/or mathematical models. Science offers a growing collection of methods, techniques and theory about all kinds of specialized scientific modelling...
  
  

External links

• MIA digital Journal, the online publication on Informative Modelling for the Architectural Heritage (http://www.map.archi.fr/mia/journal/)