Abstract
This paper describes a working example of semantically modelling cultural heritage information and data from the National Gallery collection in London. The paper discusses the process of semantically representing and enriching the available cultural heritage data, and reveals the challenges of semantically expressing interrelations and groupings among the physical items, the venue and the available digital resources. The paper also highlights the challenges in the creation of the conceptual model of the National Gallery as a Venue, which aims to i) describe and understand the correlation between the parts of a building and the whole; ii) to record and express the semantic relationships among the building components with the building as a whole; and iii) to be able to record the accurate location of objects within space and capture their provenance in terms of changes of location. The outcome of this research is the CrossCult venue ontology, a fully International Committee for Documentation Conceptual Reference Model (CIDOC-CRM) compliant structure developed in the context of the CrossCult project. The proposed ontology attempts to model the spatial arrangements of the different types of cultural heritage venues considered in the project: from small museums to open air archaeological sites and whole cities.
Highlights
CrossCult1, Empowering reuse of digital cultural heritage in context-aware crosscuts of European history, is a three-year H2020 research project, which started in March 2016
The Conceptual Reference Model (CRM) of the International Council of Museums (ICOM)—International Committee for Documentation (CIDOC), CIDOC-CRM (ISO 21127:2014), provides an object-oriented schema based on real world concepts and events implementing data harmonisation based on the relationships between things rather than artificial generalisations and fixed field schemas
The painting is modelled as an instance of E22.Man-Made Object uniquely identified by a National Gallery (UK) reference and associated with a skosified type
Summary
CrossCult , Empowering reuse of digital cultural heritage in context-aware crosscuts of European history, is a three-year H2020 research project, which started in March 2016. The benefits of Semantic Web technologies to Cultural Heritage are evident in literature including; a harmonised view to disparate and distributed contents, intelligent content aggregation, semantic search-browsing and recommendation, content enrichment and reuse [2,3] In this respect, the Conceptual Reference Model (CRM) of the International Council of Museums (ICOM)—International Committee for Documentation (CIDOC), CIDOC-CRM (ISO 21127:2014), provides an object-oriented schema based on real world concepts and events implementing data harmonisation based on the relationships between things rather than artificial generalisations and fixed field schemas. This detailed definition allowed us to describe how we can structure and store the varied complex relationships and connections between paintings, artists and materials and map these relationships to the agreed project ontology. Integrated Platform for the European Research Infrastructure ON Cultural Heritage - http://www.iperionch.eu/ Accessed
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