The identification and definition of significant properties for complex building-related digital content can be enhanced and standardized through the following approaches:
Community Collaboration: Engage stakeholders from the construction industry, public administration, archival institutions, and preservation experts to collaboratively identify and define significant properties specific to building-related digital content. This collective effort can ensure a comprehensive and inclusive approach to property definition.
Establish Clear Guidelines: Develop clear guidelines and best practices for identifying and documenting significant properties, outlining criteria such as authenticity, integrity, provenance, and context relevance. Standardized guidelines will help ensure consistency and accuracy in property definition.
Utilize Domain-Specific Ontologies: Implement domain-specific ontologies and vocabularies tailored to the construction sector to capture and describe unique significant properties of architectural or structural analysis models. Ontologies can provide a structured framework for organizing and categorizing properties.
Automation and Machine Learning: Explore the use of automation and machine learning techniques to assist in the identification of significant properties within complex digital content. Automated tools can analyze data patterns, relationships, and metadata to extract and define properties more efficiently.
Regular Review and Updates: Establish a process for regular review and updates of significant properties to adapt to evolving technologies, standards, and industry requirements. Continuous refinement ensures that the properties remain relevant and reflective of the digital content over time.
Integration with Preservation Metadata: Integrate significant properties into preservation metadata schemas such as PREMIS (Preservation Metadata: Implementation Strategies) to ensure their consistent capture and management alongside other preservation-related information.
By implementing these strategies, the identification and definition of significant properties for complex building-related digital content can be improved, standardized, and effectively preserved for long-term usability and access.