Smarticon is a digital platform with web and mobile components,
which hosts the human knowledge validated referable to the Cultural Heritage sector.
The heritage of digital information is made available to humanity
by means of a proprietary method, based on cognitive technologies.
The innovative contents of Smarticon are concentrated in the ability to investigate a work of art (known or unpublished), starting from the identification of the iconographic attributes that characterize it. This process occurs both guided and free and the system is designed to support the user, in a simple, timely and dynamic way, throughout the process.
The integration of the information allows to progressively refine the research, until the system processes the correct identification of the subject depicted in the artefact.
The method transforms the validated cognitive heritage (the precious knowledge profused by the experts which, actually, lacks an ordering) into heritage of digital information (enunciates: ordered information that are able to form reciprocal relationships and correlations). The system is highly usable thanks to the aid of cognitive technologies.
Once the subject depicted in the artifact has been identified, the research continues by recalling all the information related to the artwork: bibliographic references, diagnostic exams and much more.
Smarticon is a harbinger of benefits that involve all the sectors of the ecosystem of Cultural Heritage::
Smarticon is an instrument of “decision support” profused to offer our contribution of innovation to the world of Cultural Heritage: it facilitates the research, provides information and helps to create an evaluation of the artworks in question without ever giving an absolute certification regarding the research in progress. In other words, it does not want to replace human judgment but wants to facilitate and support it with the technology available today.
Smarticon is an Italian patent for method:
“Method for the classification, cataloging and tracing of valuable assets, in particular works from the world of art”
(Patent number 102015000006508 granted to Sara Penco on October 13th, 2017)
The method arises from a deep passion for art and for all that it represents.
Smarticon means “intelligent image”, because it allows to investigate the work of art starting from the description of the subject (iconography) and to continue with the recovery of all the information required for the enhancement of the asset and the search for truth.
The project places a hermeneutic order in the cognitive patrimony lavished by the experts in the field of Cultural Heritage and makes it usable thanks to the transformation of historical-iconographic information into heritage of digital information and a cognitive search engine.
The fusion of engineering technologies and the characteristics of the Smarticon method, allow to innovate the contents and processes of both and to create a new synergy, ready to “ride the wave of innovation” to be projected towards a planetary humanism.
The fundamental prerequisite to generate innovation is expressed in harmonizing everything that is part of an ecosystem. To accept the challenge of modern times, it becomes essential to face the “paradigm of complexity”: that is, to resolve the limits that arise from the fragmentation and disgregation of the sources of knowledge.
“Behind every problem there is an opportunity”
Galileo Galilei
Sapere Project has realized an intelligent platform, which is not limited to the storage of a single physical asset, but also includes in the concept of “Cultural Heritage” the ordering of cognitive heritage, conceived as an autonomous and independent resource.
The Smarticon method allows to place a hermeneutic ordering among the information that populates a specific sector.
Through repetitive and methodical processes, governed by an inductive, deductive and empirical logic, the information is transformed into enunciates.
“The best way to solve a problem is to be able to break it down to its simplest parts”
Renato Cartesio
The enunciates are the heritage of digital information that nourishes a wide and differentiated network of interconnections, capable of establishing reciprocal relationships and correlations for the rediscovery of lost knowledge.
Smarticon is the first prototype of a local ecosystem and bases its assumptions on the concept of a culture of complementarity: a model that aims to break down the ruptures in order to become a holistic planetary ecosystem. Our ambition is aimed at enhancing the heritage of humanity as a resource for global collective well-being.
“Measure what is measurable, and make measurable what is not so”
Galileo Galilei
Smarticon gives life to an innovative ordering of knowledge, which generates a synergy capable of tracing as much information as possible correlated and connected to an artefact: “the genetic code of the work of art”.
“Understanding is to be thought of less as a subjective act than as participating in an event of tradition, a process of transmission in which past and present are constantly mediated”
Hans George Gadamer
Smarticon is a digital platform designed to accommodate the ordering of knowledge that comes from the academic world. The cognitive properties of Smarticon enhance the usability of knowledge lavished by the experts, making it accessible to everyonel.
The method allows, thanks to intuitive queries, to trace, compare and correlate as much information as possible that can be traced back to known, but also unpublished, artefacts.
The new information, before going to integrate the enunciates in the heritage of digital information, will have to pass the validation of the experts.
“The sun, with all those planets revolving around it and dependent on it, can still ripen a bunch of grapes as if it had nothing else in the universe to do”
Galileo Galilei
The traceability of the Good is the most effective deterrent for the fight against crime.
Smarticon allow to offer a strategic contribution to law enforcement divisions, since they make it possible to imprint the encoding of the genetic code of the work of art within the blockchain: this will guarantee a character of transparency on acts and decisions, since the blockchain is based on immutable and shared records, unalterable, unchangeable and immune from corruption.
The blockchain applied to the world of art allows to make everything traceable: the description of the asset, the cognitive heritage inherent to it, the changes of ownership, the exportations, the state of conservation, the restorations, the diagnostic investigations, old and new storages, any loans for shows and exhibitions, publications, appraisals, censuses, etc.