How was this done? An attempt at formalising and memorising a digital asset´s making-of

This paper introduces the early results of a research programme called MEMORIA that aims at developing an information system enabling the description, structuring and storage of digital outputs produced in the course of Heritage Architecture studies. Our objective is to memorize not only a given result - i.e. a digital asset - but its making-of - in other words to record and share with future generations a work process rather than solely its outcomes. Digital assets are on the one hand described by a set of “classic” parameters (e.g. format, authors, creation date, etc.) and on the other hand associated with a process (concept that should be understood as a chain of activities). Ultimately, the project investigates how a digital resource resulting from a human-birthed cognitive process can be associated with descriptors ensuring that all actions mobilised to produce the resource are recorded, and therefore ensuring a sort-of scientific traceability of the “final” digital document.