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Authors:
Ashish Karmacharya
Stefanie Wefers
Frank Boochs
Keywords: Ontology development; Description Logics; Humanities;Cultural Heritage; 3D Data;Spectral Data; Descriptive Semantics;Inference
Abstract:
Ontologies have traditionally been used to represent knowledge of a specific domain. They are also used to provide a base to infer the knowledge present inside them. However, the applications of ontologies within the Cultural Heritage (CH) community have been restricted to providing standard documentation for significant heritage objects. E.g., widely used ontology within CH disciplines, International Committee for Documentation Conceptual Reference Model(CIDOC CRM) is designed to provide standards in documenting archival information of physical CH object. There has been hardly any work relating the objects to their documentation purposes. In this paper, we present the Colour and Space in Cultural Heritage Knowledge Representation (= COSCHKR) ontology – a multi-faceted ontology. With COSCHKR, we present a system that infers inter-woven descriptive semantics of different involved CH disciplines in recording CH objects to recommend optimal spatial and spectral technical solutions to humanities experts and guide through the underlying complexities while recording their objects. It takes numbers of facts into consideration including physical characteristics of the CH objects, the characteristics of their surroundings and even other relevant facts such as budget or staff competence to infer against the characteristics of the technologies for a proper recommendation. In contrast to a typical Recommender System, which does the same for web-based content through stochastic methods, we use descriptive semantics at the concept level.
Pages: 49 to 58
Copyright: Copyright (c) IARIA, 2016
Publication date: October 9, 2016
Published in: conference
ISSN: 2308-4510
ISBN: 978-1-61208-507-4
Location: Venice, Italy
Dates: from October 9, 2016 to October 13, 2016