Distributed interface for archaeological restitutions

International audienceIn the field of the architectural patrimony, the building up of surveying and knowledge representation tools gives new analysis opportunities, and favours the dawning up of reconstructional hypotheses. Addressing this question the MOMA research project (Models and Optical Measurements in Architecture) implements architectural models used as a pre-requisite for the survey process. Individual objects are identified and organised following the object-oriented approach in computer science. These elementary entities gather in their definition both morphologi-cal data and patrimonial information. They are grouped into consistent sets of objects through relations stemming from the architectural vocabulary and implemented in a language developed for this purpose. Measurements are car-ried out on predefined morphological specificities of these entities. Dealing with conservation in architecture, pho-togrammetry, computer science, MOMA meets the stakes of a multidisciplinary research. Moreover, the heteroge-neous technical systems and tools met in the scope of these disciplines clearly call for a platform-independent tool giving access to the patrimonial information gathered. Web interfacing is an answer to this problem, its implementation in our research puts a strong focus on VRML visualisation as a central entry point in the system