Semantic Bridging of Cultural Heritage Disciplines and Tasks

Abstract

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.

Semantic Representation and Internet of Things in Cultural Heritage Preventive Conservation

“…In the work of Asinelli et al (2018), the authors evaluate the use of a prototype device that measures environmental variables and send the collected data to an IoT platform that allows real-time visualization, analysis, and download. The device is equipped with WiFi connectivity and is assembled from lost cost parts while the authors report low power consumption that will allow for sparser maintenance intervals.…”

“…CIDOC CRM has been widely used for mapping and merging of metadata standards and ontologies related to the CH domain. Additionally, it has served as the base for developing extensions in order to meet the needs of specialized fields and tasks (Moraitou et al, 2019). Particularly, up to now a number of compatible models have been developed and proposed by CIDOC CRM Special Interest Group, extending the model's main entities.…”

Semantically Describing Urban Historical Buildings Across Different Levels of Granularity

“…It structures high-level concepts, so it is largely used to underlie interoperability in cultural heritage domain (including architectural and landscape heritage). This is the base of several studies (Moraitou et al, 2019;Häyrinen, 2010;Kokla et al, 2019), which are further detailed in Section 2.1. In addition, it is important to mention the research methods and tools made in the field of geographical and spatial information and modelling to manage and document cultural and architectural heritage.…”

Workflow for an Evidence-Based Virtual Reconstruction: The Marbles of the Ciborium of the Early Medieval Monte Sorbo Church

“…Other approaches to the recomposition of the original artefact follow geometrical rules to define the position of fragments (Abate et al, 2011;Adembri et al, 2017). More recently, in the light of emerging Semantic Web technologies, new studies focused on the possibility to use webbased research environment to manage digital 3D reconstructions (Kuroczynski, 2017) considering documentation standards for Linked Data requirements (Mi and Pollock, 2018;Moraitou et al, 2019). Technological developments during the last years involved both tools for 3D modelling, both tools for visualisation and communication of digital models.…”