Experiences and Strategies of Digital Survey: Drawing Assumptions and Virtual Developments

Cultural attitudes characterise research concerning heritage documentation. Documentation procedures involving architectural and landscape heritage assets, also from World Heritage sites, are assumed for a conceptual discussion on the digital-virtual applications, supported by a report of technical elaborates from digital survey actions. These elaborates, viewed in their complexity, are intended to provide an explicative framework of key qualities and characteristics that can be discussed through research to configure a determined system for heritage representation. The documentation corpus provided by research, aimed at the documentation of historical and architectural heritage sites, is configured as a set of metadata, models, drawings, media, databases, and texts, which are oriented to explain certain mechanisms of information fruition. These mechanisms are activated to reconnect the digital outcomes to the needs of virtual representation.