Monumental Structures archive system is an interdisciplinary research project that is being carried out by the Universities of Bamberg and Passau with the participation of numerous other project partners. Thus creating the development of sources of monumental buildings and the provision of data via a distributed web-based archive system with a spatial querying option.
In addition to storing data about the condition of monumental buildings the archive will also collect information about the historical legacy of the Central European cultural and historical monuments. Despite their paramount importance, the condition of these monuments to date has been generally unsatisfactory. It is only in exceptional cases that the conditions of the monuments have been inventoried, made accessible or digitally recorded and when this has been the case a non-common reference system exists between them. Querying the existing archives for building information with a spatial reference is only possible in exceptional cases, the costs are excessive, the time required is unpredictable and the results uncertain at best. This is contrary to the indisputable quality of the sources which include a collection of font and image documents, maps, plans, investigations, builders diaries, drawings sketches and the original documents indicating the reasons the historical item was erected. The archives of the Nuremberg St. Sebald and St. Lawrence churches will be used in a pilot project for the development of a digital archiving and documentation system whose findings will subsequently made available to the scientific community. In addition to University of Bamberg and Passau, a representative of the two churches will participate in the research project as practice partner and trial users of the software to be developed.
This project is gratefully supported by the German Research Community (i.e. the “Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft”), under the Scientific Supply and Information Systems (LIS) program for "Cultural Tradition - preservation of cultural heritage through digital information systems."
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