On the SeVAMH protocol for safety and safeguard of artistic assets. Overview and validation at the Monumental complex of Santa Chiara in Naples

The knowledge of cultural heritage is a key condition for its preservation and enhancement, particularly when the cultural heritage is exposed to relevant natural hazards, such as earthquakes. Protection of valuable assets can be empowered by Information and Communication Technology (ICT) that may provide Such an objective can be pursued through simple easy-to-manage and and expeditious tools rapid tools able to properly describe characterize the current conditions of cultural heritage components, from a general and structural point of view. , by using hHierarchical and structured information that describes it and provides useful data concerning its quality and critical issuescan be collected and managed in the form of databases made of heterogenous data, including pictures and sketches. In such a contest, one of the key aspects of the Most important in the knowledge phase process is the correlation between movable and immovable assets, in order to understand identify the possible potential interactions between them under exceptional actions. The present paper describedescribes a novel survey protocol, the based on the SeVAMH form, implemented with the aim to collect general information, typological characteristic and damage both of building and of artistic assets located in seismic prone areas. This form allows to reach an extensive knowledge, starting from dimensional and state of conservation survey, of assets and to identify possible damage produced by a seismic event. The application of SeVAMH form survey protocol to the museum complex of Santa Chiara in Naples validates its effectiveness and simplicity of use as a support tool both for the identification of proper measures to safeguard cultural heritage and for the assessment of its safety condition.