Title
Modeling cultural heritage data for online publication.
Abstract
An increasing number of cultural heritage institutions publish data online. Ontologies can be used to structure published data, thereby increasing interoperability. To achieve widespread adoption of ontologies, institutions such as libraries, archives and museums have to be able to assess whether an ontology can adequately capture information about their artifacts. We identify six requirements that should be met by ontologies in the cultural heritage domain, based upon modeling challenges encountered while publishing data of the Rijksmuseum Amsterdam and challenges observed in related work. These challenges regard specialization, object-and event-centric approaches, temporality, representations, views and subject matter. For each challenge, we investigate common modeling approaches, by discussing two models regularly used in the museum sector: the CIDOC Conceptual Reference Model and the Europeana Data Model. The outlined approaches and requirements provide insights for data modeling practices reaching beyond the cultural heritage sector.
Year
DOI
Venue
2018
10.3233/AO-180201
APPLIED ONTOLOGY
Keywords
Field
DocType
Ontologies,data models,cultural heritage,museums,semantic web,linked data
Ontology (information science),Data science,Ontology,Data modeling,Cultural heritage,Interoperability,Computer science,Linked data,Knowledge management,CIDOC Conceptual Reference Model,Data model
Journal
Volume
Issue
ISSN
13
4
1570-5838
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
2
0.38
10
Authors
4
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Chris Dijkshoorn1536.19
Lora Aroyo21594159.04
Jacco van Ossenbruggen381787.89
Guus Schreiber41448150.58