AN APPLICATION OF MULTICRITERIA DECISION METHODOLOGY TO RELIGIOUS HERITAGE CONSERVATION THE CASE OF THE CATHEDRAL OF JEREZ DE LA FRONTERA (CADIZ)

In this study a new methodology for the evaluation of conservation treatments is presented. With the multicriteria decision methodology (MCDM), each conservation treatment is evaluated considering different assessment factors previously ordered according to an importance-based hierarchy. The total value of each alternative based on these weights is calculated and the rating of each alternative is calculated using a distance-based MCDM method. This technique is based on a positive ideal solution, which is determined with respect to the distance of each alternative to the best-performing one. The paper is structured as follows: firstly the designed methodology is summarized and the conservation treatments evaluation framework is presented. Secondly, we present a real case and the best alternative for the Conservation of the Cathedral of Jerez de la Frontera is selected using the MCDM-based method.