scholarly journals Research on the Semantic Architecture of Cultural Heritage Images Based on CIDOC CRM

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Xiayu Zhou
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Heritage ◽  
Cidoc Crm

scholarly journals Semantic Bridging of Cultural Heritage Disciplines and Tasks

Heritage ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 2 (1) ◽  
pp. 611-630 ◽  
Author(s):  
Efthymia Moraitou ◽  
John Aliprantis ◽  
Yannis Christodoulou ◽  
Alexandros Teneketzis ◽  
George Caridakis
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Heritage ◽  
Reference Model ◽  
International Committee ◽  
Vast Amount ◽  
Metadata Standards ◽  
Wide Range ◽  
Core Ontology ◽  
Cidoc Crm

The Cultural Heritage (CH) domain encompasses a wide range of different disciplines, serving the study, interpretation, curation, and preservation of objects, collections, archives, sites, and the dissemination of related knowledge. In this context, stakeholders generate, retrieve, and share a vast amount of diverse information. Therefore, information interoperability has been considered a crucial task, especially in terms of semantics. In this way, the CIDOC CRM (International Committee for Documentation Conceptual Reference Model) has been widely used as an underlying model that offers interoperability between CH domain metadata standards and ontologies. To the best of our knowledge, an overall review of mapping, merging, and extending this core ontology, as well as an aggregate table which classifies and correlates those ontologies and standards, has not yet been presented. Our study conducts an aggregate review of relevant published efforts and outlines the various associations between them, encapsulating the CIDOC CRM and its specialized models, as well. This work aims to further clarify the field and scope of the different works, identify their methods, and highlight the semantic overlap, or differences, between them.

scholarly journals Ontological Analysis and Modularization of CIDOC-CRM

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Emilio M. Sanfilippo ◽  
Béatrice Markhoff ◽  
Perrine Pittet
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Heritage ◽  
Data Modeling ◽  
Conceptual Structure ◽  
Formal Ontology ◽  
Digital Environments ◽  
Cidoc Crm ◽  
Ontological Analysis

The CIDOC-CRM ontology is a standard for cultural heritage data modeling. Despite its large exploitation, the ontology is primarily maintained in a semi-formal notation, which makes it difficult to homogeneously exploit it in digital environments. In addition, the ontology consists of several classes and relations, whereas one sometimes wishes to reuse it but only partially. The purpose of the paper is to contribute to the use of CIDOC by strengthening its foundations. On the basis of formal ontology theories, we propose a first analysis of the ontology to enhance its conceptual structure. We also present a preliminary modularization of CIDOC aimed at enhancing both its formalization and usage.

scholarly journals Addressing the Challenges of Interoperability and Cultural Heritage Data

2021 ◽  
Vol 2021 (1) ◽  
pp. 33-37
Author(s):  
Fenella G. France ◽  
Andrew Forsberg
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Heritage ◽  
Structure Data ◽  
Data Sets ◽  
Science Data ◽  
Effective Utilization ◽  
Related Data ◽  
Heritage Science ◽  
Knowledge Organization Systems ◽  
Cidoc Crm ◽  
Multiple Ontologies

One of the ongoing challenges for effective utilization of heritage science data is the lack of access to well-organized and accessible extant data sets and the need to structure data in formats that allow interrogation and integration of related data. This need for data fusion expands to both subjective and objective measurements and descriptors, as well as a long-overdue need for established guidelines for metadata and shared terminologies, or more critically, ontologies. Research into this area has shown the need for Knowledge Organization Systems (KOS) that bridge and integrate multiple ontologies that address specific needs – for example the Getty Vocabularies for cultural heritage terms, the Linked Art model for a simplified core CIDOC-CRM, as well as the OBO Foundry and other scientific ontologies for measurements and heritage science terminology.[1]

scholarly journals Representing narratives in digital libraries: The narrative ontology

Semantic Web ◽  
2020 ◽  
pp. 1-24
Author(s):  
Carlo Meghini ◽  
Valentina Bartalesi ◽  
Daniele Metilli
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Heritage ◽  
Case Studies ◽  
Digital Libraries ◽  
Order Logic ◽  
First Order Logic ◽  
Digital Object ◽  
Formal Expression ◽  
First Order ◽  
Cidoc Crm ◽  
Representation Of Knowledge

Digital Libraries (DLs), especially in the Cultural Heritage domain, are rich in narratives. Every digital object in a DL tells some kind of story, regardless of the medium, the genre, or the type of the object. However, DLs do not offer services about narratives, for example it is not possible to discover a narrative, to create one, or to compare two narratives. Certainly, DLs offer discovery functionalities over their contents, but these services merely address the objects that carry the narratives (e.g. books, images, audiovisual objects), without regard for the narratives themselves. The present work aims at introducing narratives as first-class citizens in DLs, by providing a formal expression of what a narrative is. In particular, this paper presents a conceptualisation of the domain of narratives, and its specification through the Narrative Ontology (NOnt for short), expressed in first-order logic. NOnt has been implemented as an extension of three standard vocabularies, i.e. the CIDOC CRM, FRBRoo, and OWL Time, and using the SWRL rule language to express the axioms. On the basis of NOnt, we have developed the Narrative Building and Visualising (NBVT) tool, and applied it in four case studies to validate the ontology. NOnt is also being validated in the context of the Mingei European project, in which it is applied to the representation of knowledge about Craft Heritage.

scholarly journals Ontologia Cidoc CRM no contexto dos ambientes digitais de patrimônios culturais │ Cidoc CRM ontology in the context of digital cultural heritage environments

2015 ◽  
Vol 11 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Lais Carrasco ◽  
Manfred Thaller ◽  
Silvana Aparecida Borsetti Gregório Vidotti
Keyword(s):  
Information Retrieval ◽  
Cultural Heritage ◽  
Reference Model ◽  
Language And Culture ◽  
International Networks ◽  
Linguistic Resources ◽  
Cidoc Crm ◽  
Rapid Diffusion ◽  
Concrete Language ◽  
The Web

RESUMO Em decorrência da rápida difusão de informação em ambiente web, o acesso multilíngue e a recuperação multilíngue da informação estão se tornando cada vez mais relevantes. Dessa forma, é importante ressaltar que o acesso multilíngue ao conteúdo é usado para aumentar e melhorar as possibilidades dos usuários acessarem os ambientes culturais digitais e, nesse sentido, seu conteúdo poderia ser acessado na língua nativa ou preferencial do usuário. O problema identificado nesta pesquisa é que o patrimônio cultural mundial é geralmente descrito em muitas línguas nacionais diferentes. Multilinguismo em ontologias tem se tornado uma necessidade iminente para as instituições de todo o mundo com valiosos recursos linguísticos. Como a maioria das ontologias é desenvolvida em uma linguagem específica, a obtenção de ontologias multilíngues implica localizá-las ou adaptá-las a uma linguagem concreta e no âmbito de comunidade cultural. Neste artigo, descreveremos a ontologia Cidoc CRM cujo objetivo é melhorar a experiência do usuário na busca por conteúdo do patrimônio cultural e, assim, tornar os recursos multilíngues mais operacionais.Palavras-chave: Multilinguismo; Ontologias; Recuperação da Informação; Modelo de Referência Conceitual; Interoperabilidade.       ABSTRACT With the recent rapid diffusion of distributed document bases on the international networks of the web, the matter of multilingual access and information retrieval is becoming increasingly relevant. Thus it is important to emphasize that Multilingual Access to content is used to increase and enhance users’ possibilities to access the Cultural Heritage Repositories and their content in their native or preferred language. The issue identified in this research is that the cultural heritage of countries is usually described in many different languages. Multilinguality in ontologies has shown an impending need for institutions worldwide with valuable linguistic resources in different languages. Since most ontologies are developed in one language, obtaining multilingual ontologies implies localizing or adapting them to a concrete language and culture community. In this article we describe the Cidoc CRM ontology, whose goal is to improve the user experience of cultural heritage content by making multilingual features more easily feasible.Keywords: Multilinguality; Ontologies; Information Retrieval; Conceptual Reference Model; Interoperability.

Merging and expanding existing ontologies to cover the Built Cultural Heritage domain

2018 ◽  
Vol 8 (2) ◽  
pp. 162-178 ◽  
Author(s):  
Olga Piedad Zalamea Patino ◽  
Jos Van Orshoven ◽  
Thérèse Steenberghen
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Heritage ◽  
Reference Model ◽  
Ontology Development ◽  
Conceptual Information ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Preventive Conservation ◽  
Semantic Framework ◽  
Testing Stage ◽  
Cidoc Crm ◽  
Ontological Model

Purpose The purpose of this paper is to present the development of an ontological model consisting of terms and relationships between these terms, creating a conceptual information model for the Built Cultural Heritage (BCH) domain, more specifically for preventive conservation. Design/methodology/approach The On-To-Knowledge methodology was applied in the ontology development process. Terms related to preventive conservation were identified by means of a taxonomy which was used later to identify related existing ontologies. Three ontologies were identified and merged, i.e. Geneva City Geographic Markup Language (Geneva CityGML), Monument Damage ontology (Mondis) and CIDOC Conceptual Reference Model (CIDOC-CRM). Additional classes and properties were defined as to provide a complete semantic framework for management of BCH. Findings A BCH-ontology for preventive conservation was created. It consists of 143 classes from which 38 originate from the Mondis ontology, 38 from Geneva CityGML, 37 from CIDOC-CRM and 30 were newly created. The ontology was applied in a use case related to the New cathedral in the city of Cuenca, Ecuador. Advantages over other type of systems and for the BCH-domain were discussed based on this example. Research limitations/implications The proposed ontology is in a testing stage through which a number of its aspects are being verified. Originality/value This ontological model is the first one to focus on the preventive conservation of BCH.

scholarly journals Representing and Validating Cultural Heritage Knowledge Graphs in CIDOC-CRM Ontology

2021 ◽  
Vol 13 (11) ◽  
pp. 277
Author(s):  
Ghazal Faraj ◽  
András Micsik
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Heritage ◽  
Knowledge Sharing ◽  
Optimal Choice ◽  
Formal Structure ◽  
Migration Process ◽  
Historic Data ◽  
Cidoc Crm ◽  
Knowledge Graphs ◽  
Mapping Models ◽  
Heritage Collections

In order to unify access to multiple heterogeneous sources of cultural heritage data, many datasets were mapped to the CIDOC-CRM ontology. CIDOC-CRM provides a formal structure and definitions for most cultural heritage concepts and their relationships. The COURAGE project includes historic data concerning people, organizations, cultural heritage collections, and collection items covering the period between 1950 and 1990. Therefore, CIDOC-CRM seemed the optimal choice for describing COURAGE entities, improving knowledge sharing, and facilitating the COURAGE dataset unification with other datasets. This paper introduces the results of translating the COURAGE dataset to CIDOC-CRM semantically. This mapping was implemented automatically according to predefined mapping rules. Several SPARQL queries were applied to validate the migration process manually. In addition, multiple SHACL shapes were conducted to validate the data and mapping models.

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