Abstract
Abstract. This paper proposes CulTO, a software tool relying on a computational ontology for Cultural Heritage domain modelling, with a specific focus on religious historical buildings, for supporting cultural heritage experts in their investigations. It is specifically thought to support annotation, automatic indexing, classification and curation of photographic data and text documents of historical buildings. CULTO also serves as a useful tool for Historical Building Information Modeling (H-BIM) by enabling semantic 3D data modeling and further enrichment with non-geometrical information of historical buildings through the inclusion of new concepts about historical documents, images, decay or deformation evidence as well as decorative elements into BIM platforms. CulTO is the result of a joint research effort between the Laboratory of Surveying and Architectural Photogrammetry “Luigi Andreozzi” and the PeRCeiVe Lab (Pattern Recognition and Computer Vision Lab) of the University of Catania,
Highlights
Ontologies for Cultural HeritageThe availability of a large-scale unstructured and distributed knowledge together with the massive production of multimedia data makes the cultural heritage domain suited for semantic web modelling
In the last decades, we have witnessed to the explosion of digital cultural assets all over the world
This paper proposes CulTO, Cultural heritage Tool based on Ontology, a software tool relying on a fine-grained computational ontology for Cultural Heritage domain modelling, with a specific focus on religious historical buildings, for supporting cultural heritage experts in their investigations
Summary
The availability of a large-scale unstructured and distributed knowledge together with the massive production of multimedia data makes the cultural heritage domain suited for semantic web modelling. In (Ghiselli et al, 2005), a web-based virtual museum based on ontology is proposed where visitors can perform queries and create shared information by adding textual annotations These new generation of approaches has enabled the conversion of traditional cultural heritage website into a well-designed and more content-rich one (Bing et al, 2014), integrating distributed and heterogeneous resources, overcoming the limitations of systems such as MultimediaN ECulture project (Schreiber et al, 2008), which, instead, manually performs data enchriment through semantic web techniques for harvesting and aligning existing vocabularies and metadata schemas. An attempt to integrate the Building Information Modelling with an ontology-based knowledge management system is proposed in (Simeone et al, 2014) with the objective to improve BIM abilities for inference and reasoning through an ontology able to interrelate all the domains needed for a comprehensive interpretation of the historical artefacts. We present our system - CULTO - for supporting the modelling of cultural heritage buildings as well as the visual data annotation step, necessary to develop high-level applications for data curation, retrieval and classification
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