But what exactly are the scholars doing? An extremely complex work that involves the reconstruction of a geometric datum starting from the photographs. “On the one hand, we record a person's gaze on the building, which is the photograph, extract the coordinates and store the annotations made on the photos (in two dimensions) to automatically extract three-dimensional information”. From this derives the spatialization of the image and the multiple associated annotations. The more data is entered, the more the Cathedral takes shape.
“Every single remainder of the fire is analyzed by several experts: crossing our gazes, we can reconstruct where it was inside the Cathedral, its composition and its origine”.
A cognitive and semantic investigation, that of the scientific site, which supports and accompanies the operational site and which helps it, for example, to recompose by anastylosis. But it also has its own value regardless: this ecosystem will be able to memorize a situation that will not necessarily be expressed by the restoration site, but will remain an important digital memory that already today reveals technical-constructive details, in this case linked to the Gothic style, which before they didn't know each other. A digital born cultural heritage that will also become a valuable tool for future researchers.