@INPROCEEDINGS{3IA2006:SDPVN,
  AUTHOR       = {Julien Seinturier and Pierre Drap and Odile Papini and Guido Vannini and Michele Nuccioti},
  TITLE        = {Knowledge representation and data fusion for archaeology: The case study of the castle of shawbak},
  BOOKTITLE    = {Proceedings of the 9th International Conference on Computer Graphics and Artificial Intelligence 3IA 2006},
  YEAR         = {2006},
  EDITOR       = {Dimitri Plemenos},
  PAGES        = {169--179},
  ORGANIZATION = {XLIM Laboratory of the University de Limoges and Computer Sciences Department of the Sciences and Technics Faculty of Limoges},
  PUBLISHER    = {University of Limoges and EUROGRAPHICS-AFIG},
  ADDRESS      = {Limoges, France},
  MONTH        = {23-24 May},
  SERIES       = {},
  VOLUME       = {},
  ABSTRACT     = {The present paper addresses an approach for merging heritage survey and archaeological knowledge. The theoretical framework is the integration between photogrammetric survey and documentation process, practically used in different archaeological excavation. Information is sorted by source. A source is a set of information provided by the operators involved in the excavation process. The merging process involves the verification of the consistency of different sources and the aggregation of all the information from the sources into a global result. Each source, respectively each operator, owns a personal representation of his knowledge domain. Merging together all these sets of information needs a method which can be easily operated by most of the participants in the research and which can furthermore manage the ‘multiple knowledge’ on the surveyed object. The merge process is theoretically defined in a reversible framework for propositional bases merging. This framework is presented in a semantic way and applied by the development of merging tool. This tool uses a simple interface for displaying results and knowledge in various form (textual, 2D map, 3D scene, XML). The tool provides a simple easy to use interface. Finally, a real case study will be. The selected case study is the Castle of Shawbak, in Jordan, known in medieval written sources as the “Crac de Montréal”.},
}