POLITECNICO DI TORINO DIPARTIMENTO CASA-CITTA’ ARCHIWORDNET, A BILINGUAL THESAURUS FOR ARCHITECTURE AND BUILDING: COMPILATION AND APPLICATION TO HYBRID ARCHIVES A. Bocco, E. Bodrato, A. Perin Hybrid Architectural Archives Conference NAI, Rotterdam/Den Haag June

AWN = Polito/DICAS + FBK/iRST SIS architectural photographs databank (only Intranet access, Oracle platform) LSBC architectural archives (Guarini regional catalog, online)

AWN “synsets” rich semantic relations network domain-specific fully integrated in general-language WordNet specialised sources for architecture and building

school, schoolhouse -- (Architecture, School) a place where people receive education; “the school was built in 1932”; “he walks to school every morning” -> -- (Architecture, Town_Planning) a building whose main function is to host any activity ascribed to the tertiary sector of economy -> building, edifice -- (Architecture, Town_Planning) a structure that encloses spaces mainly used for the performance of human activities, and stands more or less permanently in one place; “there was a three-story building on the corner”; “it will be an imposing edifice” -> -- (Architecture) *** -> -- (Architecture) a structure pertaining to the Civil Engineering and Architecture domain -> structure, construction -- (Factotum) a thing constructed; a complex construction or entity; “the structure consists of a series of arches”; “she wore her hair in an amazing construction of whirls and ribbons” -> artifact, artefact -- (Factotum) a man-made object -> object, physical_object -- (Factotum) a physical (tangible and visible) entity; “it was full of rackets, balls and other objects” -> entity, something -- (Factotum) anything having existence (living or nonliving)

AAT Hierarchy AWN Hierarchy

AWN semantic areas Architectural styles Materials (*) Construction products Techniques Tools Building components (*) Single buildings and building complexes (*) Physical properties Conditions Disciplines People Documents Drawings and representations (*)

Example 1 Politecnico di Torino, Dicas-LSBC, Fondo Melis, Villa Tornielli al Monte Oro, 66 subject: building, residential building, villa; entrance hall, fireplace, mantelpiece, manteltree, column, frieze, cornice, modillion, capital, base, torus, scotia, listel words written on the document: fianco (lit., side) = side elevation, hall = entrance hall (androne), al vero (lit., life-scale) = scale of 1:1 medium technique etc.

Example 2 Politecnico di Torino, DICAS, House in Joussaud (Pragelato, TO), eco_037_002_AC_1446. Photo: Diego Cappellazzo description: - very thick load-bearing wall, made of mixed-sized stones, plastered with lime mortar which acts also as binder; - wooden frame structure, with small stones infilling; - wooden frame structure, with wooden planks infilling

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