Spatially Enabled Web Application for Urban Cultural Heritage Monitoring and Metrics Reporting for the SDGs

Sevasti Chalkidou, Apostolos Arvanitis, Petros Patias and Charalampos Georgiadis
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Sevasti Chalkidou: Laboratory of Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing (PERS Lab), School of Rural and Surveying Engineering, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, 541 24 Thessaloniki, Greece
Apostolos Arvanitis: Laboratory of Cadastre and Geographic Information Systems, School of Rural and Surveying Engineering, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, 541 24 Thessaloniki, Greece
Petros Patias: Laboratory of Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing (PERS Lab), School of Rural and Surveying Engineering, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, 541 24 Thessaloniki, Greece
Charalampos Georgiadis: School of Civil Engineering, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, 541 24 Thessaloniki, Greece

Sustainability, 2021, vol. 13, issue 21, 1-24

Abstract: UNESCO and the United Nations have recently identified cultural heritage (CH) as a key enabler of sustainability by incorporating it into several Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). Accurate and efficient reporting on CH is considered fundamental despite known limitations due to the lack of sufficient and harmonized data. This paper presents a spatially enabled web application for urban CH monitoring for the city of Thessaloniki in Northern Greece. The objective was to integrate the information provided by several independent public registries on CH into a common 2D mapping and reporting platform and to enrich it with additional data provided by other built environment agencies. An estimation of the expected cost for the structural evaluation by experts of the city’s CH assets was also implemented for SDG’s Indicator 11.4.1. The methodology involved stakeholder identification, data collection and pre-processing, field verification and documentation, calculation of Indicator 11.4.1, and the actual coding process. The application can be found online, providing useful insights and statistical information on the city’s heritage in a dashboard format. The key challenges included the lack of updated data, the existence of several individual registries, and the need for regular field inspection due to the rapidly changing urban fabric.

Keywords: cultural heritage; dashboard monitoring; sustainable development goals; heritage management; geoinformatics; web GIS; heritage reporting; Thessaloniki (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: O13 Q Q0 Q2 Q3 Q5 Q56 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2021
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