StoneVerse: Models and Methods in Cultural Heritage. The Open-Science Platform for Reproducible Modelling of Stone Decay
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2025
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The Eurographics Association
Abstract
The preservation of cultural heritage is increasingly challenged by environmental factors such as weathering and pollutant exposure, which accelerate the deterioration of historic buildings, statues, and architectural elements. Understanding and mitigating these degradation processes require advanced modelling techniques and open access to experimental data. However, until now, a unified platform integrating state-of-the-art simulation models with a structured repository for data sharing is still lacking. In this work, we introduce StoneVerse, a web-based platform designed to support the study of porous material degradation in built heritage. Developed in alignment with the FAIR principles -Findability, Accessibility, Interoperability, and Reusability-, StoneVerse serves as a collaborative environment where researchers can both share experimental data and access simulation algorithms for predicting damage caused by water infiltration. To the best of our knowledge, it is the first digital platform of its kind, providing open-source computational tools for monitoring stone deterioration alongside a cohesive framework for data publication and dissemination. StoneVerse is developed within the European project ''Humanities and cultural Heritage Italian Open Science Cloud'' - H2IOSC - NextGenerationEU.
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@inproceedings{10.2312:dh.20253236,
booktitle = {Digital Heritage},
editor = {Campana, Stefano and Ferdani, Daniele and Graf, Holger and Guidi, Gabriele and Hegarty, Zackary and Pescarin, Sofia and Remondino, Fabio},
title = {{StoneVerse: Models and Methods in Cultural Heritage. The Open-Science Platform for Reproducible Modelling of Stone Decay}},
author = {Onofri, Elia and Bizzarro, Sofia and Tassa, Sandro and Czech, Michela and Bretti, Gabriella},
year = {2025},
publisher = {The Eurographics Association},
ISBN = {978-3-03868-277-6},
DOI = {10.2312/dh.20253236}
}