A system approach to conservation and cultural resources management. Photogrammetry as a base for designing documentation models

• A system approach is used to define the area of conservation and cultural resources management as a field of activities comprising local as well as global issues, concerning public and private properties and organizations, focused on small treasured artefacts as well as large natural environments. The application of a metasystem paradigm enables through a process of abstraction, a deeper understanding of complex systems such as the conservation area. Dysfunctions could be described and understood, and hence target for management procedures supported by an information system, yet to be designed. The conservation system is described through three organizational levels; the operational level, the tactical level and the strategical level. These levels differ in their problems of concern and decision rationalities, thus having impact on the requirements of an information system. The three levels concerns all conservation sub-systems, or rather control systems, where each control system has developed specific routines and standards for the flow of data, information and knowledge, supporting the decision making process. The paper rounds up with identifying the problems in launching a general information system for the conservation area and in what respect photogrammetry and other imaging techniques can constitute basic functionalities in such a system.

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HUMANIORA  -- Annan humaniora -- Kulturstudier (hsv//swe)

HUMANITIES  -- Other Humanities -- Cultural Studies (hsv//eng)

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conservation

system approach

information system

metamodel design

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