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 Implementation of multiple interpretation data model concepts in CIDOC CRM and compatible models

2018 ◽  
Vol 9 (19) ◽  
pp. 50 ◽  
Author(s):  
Muriel Van Ruymbeke ◽  
Pierre Hallot ◽  
Gilles-Antoine Nys ◽  
Roland Billen
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Heritage ◽  
Data Model ◽  
Reference Model ◽  
International Committee ◽  
Model Mapping ◽  
Proposal A ◽  
Historical Objects ◽  
Multiple Interpretation ◽  
Cidoc Crm ◽  
Structuring Knowledge

<p>Modelling cultural heritage is a research topic shared by a broad scientific community.  Although  this subject has been widely studied, it  seems that  some  aspects  still  have  to  be  tackled.  This paper describes two CIDOC (ICOM’s International Committee for Documentation) Conceptual Reference Model (CRM) extension proposals (A &amp; B) dedicated to structuring knowledge concerning historical objects and historical events.  It  focuses  on  multiple  interpretations and sequential reality, this last being a concept which does not exist in CIDOC CRM but was originally developed in another conceptual model, the Multiple Interpretation Data Model (MIDM). To begin, an extensive description of MIDM concepts is given as well as a recall of its main peculiarities. It is followed by a mapping proposed to translate MIDM concepts into ontologies  devoted to describing cultural  heritage  entities  and  activities,  the CIDOC CRM  and  compatible  models. Unfortunately,  some MIDM  concepts  are  not  covered  by this  mapping  because  they  do  not  match  with existing  CRM entities and properties, and this paper explains why an extension is necessary. It describes how the two versions of the extension proposal cover the missing MIDM concepts. One of these two versions, the proposal A, has been implemented as ontology in Protégé and has been tested through an instantiation phase using a real example. This instantiation phase is fully detailed. It shows that proposal A works coherently with CRM ontologies. On another hand, instantiation phase highlights improvements needs such as recording chronology in a structured way.</p><p><strong>Highlights:</strong></p><ul><li><p>Cultural Heritage modelling involves two different ontological concepts: reality and information held about it.</p></li><li><p>Historical Objects existence is a sequence made by events, stability periods and changes affecting it.</p></li><li><p>Multiple Interpretation Data Model mapping to CIDOC CRM and its extension proposal take into account difference between reality and information. They also manage sequence concept.</p></li></ul>

scholarly journals Semantic Representation and Location Provenance of Cultural Heritage Information: the National Gallery Collection in London

Heritage ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 2 (1) ◽  
pp. 648-665 ◽  
Author(s):  
Joseph Padfield ◽  
Kalliopi Kontiza ◽  
Antonis Bikakis ◽  
Andreas Vlachidis
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Heritage ◽  
Reference Model ◽  
Semantic Representation ◽  
International Committee ◽  
Archaeological Sites ◽  
National Gallery ◽  
Semantic Relationships ◽  
Compliant Structure ◽  
Building Components ◽  
Cidoc Crm

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.

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 The Archaeological Excavation Report of Rigny: An Example of an Interoperable Logicist Publication

Heritage ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 2 (1) ◽  
pp. 761-773 ◽  
Author(s):  
Olivier Marlet ◽  
Elisabeth Zadora-Rio ◽  
Pierre-Yves Buard ◽  
Béatrice Markhoff ◽  
Xavier Rodier
Keyword(s):  
Reference Model ◽  
Cognitive Structure ◽  
Open Data ◽  
International Committee ◽  
Alternative Form ◽  
Graphical Interface ◽  
Archaeological Excavation ◽  
Cidoc Crm ◽  
Data Inference ◽  
Different Levels

The logicist program, which was initiated in the 1970s by J.C. Gardin, aims to clarify the reasoning processes in the field of archaeology and to explore new forms of publication, in order to overcome the growing imbalance between the flood of publications and our capacities of assimilation. The logicist program brings out the cognitive structure of archaeological constructs, which establishes a bridge between empirical facts or descriptive propositions, at one end of the argumentation, and interpretative propositions at the other. This alternative form of publication is designed to highlight the chain of inference and the evidence on which it stands. In the case of the logicist publication of the archaeological excavation in Rigny (Indre-et-Loire, France), our workflow can provide different levels of access to the content, allowing both speed-reading and in-depth consultation. Both the chains of inference and the ArSol database containing the field records that provide evidence for the initial propositions are visualized in a diagram structure. We rely on the International Committee for Documentation Conceptual Reference Model (CIDOC CRM) entities for ensuring the semantic interoperability of such publications within the Linked Open Data. Inference chains are mapped to CRMinf and ArSol records are mapped to CRM, CRMSci and CRMArcheo. Moreover, as part of the work carried out by the French Huma-Num MASA Consortium, a project is underway to allow the building of logicist publications starting from a graphical interface for describing the structure and content of propositions.

scholarly journals ONTOLOGY-BASED HBIM FOR HISTORIC BUILDINGS WITH TRADITIONAL WOODWORK IN TAIWAN

2021 ◽  
Vol 27 (1) ◽  
pp. 27-44
Author(s):  
Ying-Mei Cheng ◽  
Chiao-Ling Kuo ◽  
Chia-Ching Mou
Keyword(s):  
Building Information Modeling ◽  
Reference Model ◽  
International Committee ◽  
Information Modeling ◽  
Historic Buildings ◽  
Structural Components ◽  
Building Information ◽  
Research Opportunity ◽  
Cidoc Crm ◽  
Interactive Experience

In recent years, the use of Historic Building Information Modeling (HBIM) has grown prevalent and thus provided a research opportunity. Differing from newly constructed buildings, structural components of historic buildings come with unique physical configurations and have amassed impressive amount of restoration data, all of which must be taken into consideration when incorporating Building Information Modeling. In terms of modelling, it is critical to determine the appropriate level of detail (LoD), level of information (LoI), especially the comprehensiveness and expandability of the database. International Committee for Documentation/Conceptual Reference Model (CIDOC CRM) is a widely accepted standard for ontology model. This study aims to integrate the HBIM and CIDOC CRM to construct a framework and comprehensive operational procedure for the modeling of traditional Minan architecture and a database with complete semantics archiving the background and restoration data. Autodesk A360 is ideal for collaborative. However, there are limitations when it comes to developing advanced models for data management or query; interactive experience; meeting model applications derived from future scenarios. Therefore, the study also offers a 3D modeling platform constructed using Unity, as well as a comparison of the platforms built with Unity, three.js and Autodesk A360 as a reference for users.

scholarly journals VALIDATION OF THE BCH-ONTOLOGY

2020 ◽  
Vol XLIV-M-1-2020 ◽  
pp. 497-504
Author(s):  
O. Zalamea ◽  
G. García
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Heritage ◽  
Reference Model ◽  
Historical Building ◽  
Preventive Conservation ◽  
Semantic Framework ◽  
San Luis ◽  
Cidoc Crm ◽  
Ontological Model ◽  
Additional Value ◽  
Xix Century

Abstract. In the heritage domain, capturing facts and knowledge for preventive conservation of Built Cultural Heritage (BCH) requires access to a large variety of data. It is a multidisciplinary activity and uses heterogeneous terminologies. In this regard, the BCH-ontology has been developed to facilitate integration and exchange of heterogeneous built cultural heritage information. The BCH-ontology reuses three already developed ontologies: Geneva City Geographic Markup Language (Geneva CityGML), Monument Damage ontology (Mondis), and CIDOC Conceptual Reference Model (CIDOC-CRM). Additionally, it provides a complete semantic framework by defining some classes and properties for improving BCH management. This paper presents the validation of the BCH-ontology ontological model to determine whether the ontology is able to represent BCH data under a preventive conservation approach. The San Luis seminary is a historical building built in the late XIX century in Cuenca-Ecuador and it is employed as use case. This validation allowed the identification of further use cases where the ontology offers a potential additional value in the BCH-domain.

Coupled Thermo-Hydro-Geochemical Models of Engineered Barrier Systems: The Febex Project

2000 ◽  
Vol 663 ◽  
Author(s):  
J. Samper ◽  
R. Juncosa ◽  
V. Navarro ◽  
J. Delgado ◽  
L. Montenegro ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Large Scale ◽  
Reference Model ◽  
Numerical Models ◽  
Full Scale ◽  
Small Scale ◽  
Model Parameters ◽  
In Situ Test ◽  
Wide Range ◽  
Engineered Barrier

ABSTRACTFEBEX (Full-scale Engineered Barrier EXperiment) is a demonstration and research project dealing with the bentonite engineered barrier designed for sealing and containment of waste in a high level radioactive waste repository (HLWR). It includes two main experiments: an situ full-scale test performed at Grimsel (GTS) and a mock-up test operating since February 1997 at CIEMAT facilities in Madrid (Spain) [1,2,3]. One of the objectives of FEBEX is the development and testing of conceptual and numerical models for the thermal, hydrodynamic, and geochemical (THG) processes expected to take place in engineered clay barriers. A significant improvement in coupled THG modeling of the clay barrier has been achieved both in terms of a better understanding of THG processes and more sophisticated THG computer codes. The ability of these models to reproduce the observed THG patterns in a wide range of THG conditions enhances the confidence in their prediction capabilities. Numerical THG models of heating and hydration experiments performed on small-scale lab cells provide excellent results for temperatures, water inflow and final water content in the cells [3]. Calculated concentrations at the end of the experiments reproduce most of the patterns of measured data. In general, the fit of concentrations of dissolved species is better than that of exchanged cations. These models were later used to simulate the evolution of the large-scale experiments (in situ and mock-up). Some thermo-hydrodynamic hypotheses and bentonite parameters were slightly revised during TH calibration of the mock-up test. The results of the reference model reproduce simultaneously the observed water inflows and bentonite temperatures and relative humidities. Although the model is highly sensitive to one-at-a-time variations in model parameters, the possibility of parameter combinations leading to similar fits cannot be precluded. The TH model of the “in situ” test is based on the same bentonite TH parameters and assumptions as for the “mock-up” test. Granite parameters were slightly modified during the calibration process in order to reproduce the observed thermal and hydrodynamic evolution. The reference model captures properly relative humidities and temperatures in the bentonite [3]. It also reproduces the observed spatial distribution of water pressures and temperatures in the granite. Once calibrated the TH aspects of the model, predictions of the THG evolution of both tests were performed. Data from the dismantling of the in situ test, which is planned for the summer of 2001, will provide a unique opportunity to test and validate current THG models of the EBS.

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