Introducing the HERACLES Ontology—Semantics for Cultural Heritage Management

Hellmund, Tobias; Hertweck, Philipp; Hilbring, Désirée; Moßgraber, Jürgen; Alexandrakis, George; Pouli, Paraskevi; Σιάτου, Αμαλία; Padeletti, G.

doi:10.3390/heritage1020026

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“…It aims for better management and monitoring of built heritage health by modeling climate change effects and different types of damage it can cause for various type of materials through specific mechanisms. It is still in the early stages, going through tests and awaiting acceptance of experts and stakeholders [32].…”

Section: Related Workmentioning

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An ontological data model for points of interest (POI) in a cultural heritage site

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Cultural heritage (CH) reflects on the history of a society and its traditions and it is treated as the nation’s memory and identity. Digitizing and web, beside its benefits, brought some challenges in disseminating and retrieving CH information, which has heterogeneous content varying widely in type and properties yet encompassing rich semantic links. Semantic web technologies, especially ontologies, provide a common understanding inside a domain that helps sharing knowledge and interoperability. They can be very helpful in data modeling for a better information retrieval compared to relational databases as they take into account the semantics of information, guarantee reusability, and make information machine-readable that can offer more flexibility to intelligent services and applications. CH community is one of the first domains to make use semantic web technologies to deal with this issue. CIDOC CRM is the most used and famous ontology in CH domain, which is an ISO standard since 2006. Heritage sites are composed of many points of interest that attract visitors to find out about them. However, information about a particular POI is complex and interconnected with other people, events, and objects. In this paper, we aim to develop a POI-based data model for heritage sites in Iran using concepts from CIDOC CRM integrated with GeoSPARQL, the standard ontology in geospatial field, to incorporate spatial semantics with heritage information. This way the user can freely explore their preferred information about the places they desire. This can make it possible to use the data model for location-based services and applications in heritage sites.

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An ontological data model for points of interest (POI) in a cultural heritage site

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“…Polygnosis Thesaurus was developed with TMS THeMaS. 48 The thesauri and vocabularies which were studied, include i) AAT [47],…”

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Semantic models and services for conservation and restoration of cultural heritage: A comprehensive survey

Moraitou

Christodoulou

2022

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Over the last decade, the Cultural Heritage (CH) domain has gradually adopted Semantic Web (SW) technologies for organizing information and for tackling interoperability issues. Several semantic models have been proposed which accommodate essential aspects of information management: retrieval, integration, reuse and sharing. In this context, the CH subdomain of Conservation and Restoration (CnR) exhibits an increasing interest in SW technologies, in an attempt to effectively handle the highly heterogeneous and often secluded CnR information. This paper investigates semantic models relevant to the CnR knowledge domain. The scope, development methodology and coverage of CnR aspects are described and discussed. Furthermore, the evaluation, deployment and current exploitation of each model are examined, with focus on the types and variety of services provided to support the CnR professional. Through this study, the following research questions are investigated: To what extent the various aspects of CnR are covered by existing CnR models? To what extent existing CnR models incorporate models of the broader CH domain and of relevant disciplines (e.g., Chemistry)? In what ways and to what extent services built upon the reviewed models facilitate CnR professionals in their various tasks? Finally, based on the findings, fields of interest that merit further investigation are suggested.

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“…Two aspects deal with modeling of metadata and time, and the other five are specific for the city, such as street modeling, administration, and local public transportation [26]. Differently, Hellmund et al concentrated on urban heat island mitigation strategies (UHIMS) and defined strategies to face increasing urban temperature, which generally impact air quality, human health, outdoor thermal comfort, and energy consumption [27]. Unlike other studies, Nandini et al devoted the study to representing an ontology for the transportation system.…”

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Approaching Healthy City Ontology: First-Level Classes Definition Using BFO

Pietra¹,

Lotto²,

Bahshwan³

2021

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In recent decades, the concept of the healthy city (HC) has become more and more relevant in many fields, such as city administration and scientific environment, and has become a commonly understood concept in the general public. Due to the breakneck growth of people living in urban contexts, the subsequent necessity to guarantee good urban conditions for all kinds of citizens, and the general deterioration of the hearth environment caused by human activities (concentrated in urban settlements), this issue is increasing in its relevance. In this paper, the authors discuss the concept of the HC from an ontological point of view to organize the highly complex system of elements and the mutual relations that constitute the idea of HC. The main goals of an HC are quite intuitive, but the number of components that define and manage it is vast and related to different disciplines: sustainability, urban management, urban planning, and health and social studies. With the presented research, the authors intend to start an organizational definition of the HC using basic formal ontology (BFO). Considering the definition of HC, the authors focus on the ontology process and the different typologies of ontological structures. Then, the authors describe a first-level scheme of HC ontology and, finally, discuss possible applications of the presented study and next research steps.

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Introducing the HERACLES Ontology—Semantics for Cultural Heritage Management

Cited by 19 publications

References 6 publications

An ontological data model for points of interest (POI) in a cultural heritage site

An ontological data model for points of interest (POI) in a cultural heritage site

Semantic models and services for conservation and restoration of cultural heritage: A comprehensive survey

Approaching Healthy City Ontology: First-Level Classes Definition Using BFO

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