  In the last decades the rapid development of technologies and methodologies
in the field of digitization and 3D modelling has led to an increasing
proliferation of 3D technologies in the Cultural Heritage domain. Despite the
great potential of 3D digital heritage, the "special effects" of 3D may often
overwhelm its importance in research. Projects and consortia of scholars have
tried to put order in the different fields of application of these
technologies, providing guidelines and proposing workflows. The use of computer
graphics as an effective methodology for CH research and communication
highlighted the need of transparent provenance data to properly document
digital assets and understand the degree of scientific quality and reliability
of their outcomes. The building and release of provenance knowledge, consisting
in the complete formal documentation of each phase of the process, is therefore
of fundamental importance to ensure its repeatability and to guarantee the
integration and interoperability of the generated metadata on the Semantic Web.
This paper proposes a methodology for documenting the planning and creation of
3D models used in archaeology and Cultural Heritage, by means of an application
profile based on the CIDOC CRM ecosystem and other international standards.
