Documentation of decision-making process in the analysis of digital heritage objects

Abstract

Decision-making is a fundamental part of digital objects production in the field of digital heritage. We present in this paper our efforts on developing an application that will enable easy documentation of the decision-making processes, and provide access to digital objects used in various stages of the process. Our application is built on top of a data repository built in our group. On top of the repository we developed a functionality to represent and describe decisions in a structure of a hierarchical tree. Each step of the decision process is described by linking together data from the repository with decision descriptions. In order to access and explore available decisions and related data we developed an interactive visualization tools that shows the structure of the decision making process and provides access to each individual digital object and relevant information.