In contemporary built heritage conservation,digital workflows are increasingly being used as tools to capture, generate, visualize and manage built heritage.These tangible resources are at imminent risk from inherent and external causes, which can drastically and/or slowly damage tangible heritage features.This paper provides design methodology priorities for implementing effective acquisition of posterity records, in order to ensure the appropriate collection, processing and sharing of heritage information.The design methodology is aimed at safeguarding the values of these places for future generations and eventual repair, maintenance and physical conservation.Exposure to first-hand heritage recording projects, in collaboration with intergovernmental organizations, private foundations,governments, and consulting companies, has provided the adequate knowledge and experience for the following contribution.The employment of IT supported techniques and capacity building strategies for a holistic documentation are presented using a case study in Myanmar.These tools employed in the described on-field recording activities in Bagan are freely available and are off-the-shelf (COTS) made applications.Finally, limits (increasing threats and fragmentation of data), challenges (scale enlargement and development of new themes in cultural heritage),and perspectives (increasing pace of innovation, in cultural heritage conservation) are discussed in detail considering the international framework and current debate.