Cantabria’s Heritage Ontology

Description of an ongoing project that aims to model the cultural heritage domain in an ontology, the Cantabria’s Heritage Ontology, lead by Fundación Marcelino Botín. The ontology will contain data from different and heterogeneous sources (bibliographic records, finding aids, catalogues, etc.). The project will develop a series of applications that get the most out of the ontology, beginning by a semantic portal. The portal will provide easy and intuitive access to a huge volume of information that comes from heterogeneous sources selected by domain experts. People interested in Cantabria will be able to find with as few clicks as possible, not only the information they are interested in, but also some contextual information that complements the one the user is watching, suggesting new navigation directions, and uncovering hidden relations. The ontology has been designed based on the international standards for cultural models, such as CRM, FRBR or Dublin Core, and W3C recommendations for the semantic web

Todo el patrimonio para todos el proyecto “Ontología del Patrimonio de Cantabria 3.0” como experiencia de la democratización del patrimonio cultural

El Proyecto “Patrimonio de Cantabria 3.0” pretende poner toda la información acerca del Patrimonio de una región a disposición de todos a través de la utilización de la Web 3.0, en una iniciativa surgida en el marco del Campus de Excelencia Internacional de la Universidad de Cantabria, dirigido a la formación de un portal digital promovido por la Fundación Botín y la Universidad de Cantabria que tiene como objetivo digitalizar y situar en la red, con la tecnología más avanzada, un extenso corpus del Patrimonio histórico, artístico, arqueológico, territorial, etnográfico, científico-técnico, bibliográfico y documental de la Comunidad Autónoma de Cantabria. Gracias al conocimiento almacenado previamente en una “Ontología”, los agentes podrán extraer datos, combinarlos y extraer conclusiones

Nodos: Enciclopedia de las Artes Escénicas

The main goal of Nodos is to promote the collective creation of semantic knowledge regarding performing arts. Recording and curating information about these expressions contributes to the preservation of the Intangible Cultural Heritage, as defined by UNESCO. One of the challenges related to the preservation of information is the large amount of people involved in the creation and development of scenic arts and the dynamism in these theater pieces. The large number of plays presented every year makes it difficult to keep records up to date, resulting in the loss of knowledge about many cultural pieces. This article introduces a way to record such cultural heritage in the context of a citizen science project. Nodos defines an ontology regarding performing arts and also uses a semantic wiki that helps in the implementation of the ontology. An evaluation of usability shows Nodos as an effective initiative to preserve and study performing arts.Nodos es un proyecto que posee como objetivo promover y generar una exhaustiva base de conocimiento sobre artes performáticas. El registro de este tipo de artes contribuye a la preservación del Patrimonio Cultural Intangible definido por UNESCO. Uno de los desafíos está dado por la gran cantidad de personas vinculadas y el dinamismo que presentan las obras. La dificultad de documentar las numerosas obras presentadas cada año conlleva la pérdida de los registros de muchas de las obras. En este artículo se presenta una forma de registrar ese tipo de patrimonio cultural en el contexto de un proyecto de ciencia ciudadana. Específicamente, por medio de la definición de una ontología sobre las artes escénicas y la utilización de una wiki semántica. Finalmente, una evaluación de usabilidad muestra que Nodos es una iniciativa efectiva para preservar y estudiar a las artes escénicas

Horizon Report 2009

El informe anual Horizon investiga, identifica y clasifica las tecnologías emergentes que los expertos que lo elaboran prevén tendrán un impacto en la enseñanza aprendizaje, la investigación y la producción creativa en el contexto educativo de la enseñanza superior. También estudia las tendencias clave que permiten prever el uso que se hará de las mismas y los retos que ellos suponen para las aulas. Cada edición identifica seis tecnologías o prácticas. Dos cuyo uso se prevé emergerá en un futuro inmediato (un año o menos) dos que emergerán a medio plazo (en dos o tres años) y dos previstas a más largo plazo (5 años)

Towards a semantic model for heritage description

The new ICTs make available a set of tools that can be useful for the digitalization and access of both material and immaterial heritage. Regarding access to digitized heritage, if we want it to be for different people with different training backgrounds, it is necessary to have an element that allows us to "understand" the digitized information. The key element is ontology. This work presents an ontology network for the semantic description of both cultural and natural heritage, as well as each one of the types of manifestations, their actors and historical periods. This network of ontologies will not only allow access to heritage data, but will allow such data to be processed and integrated; further to that, it will become possible to draw conclusions through automatic reasoning.Las nuevas TICs ponen a disposición de la comunidad un conjunto de herramientas que pueden ser útiles para la digitalización y para el acceso al patrimonio tanto material como inmaterial. En cuanto al acceso del patrimonio digitalizado, si pretendemos que el mismo sea para diferentes personas con diferentes conocimientos es necesario contar con un elemento que permita “entender” la información digitalizada. Ese elemento clave son las ontologías. En este trabajo se muestra una red de ontologías para describir la semántica del patrimonio tanto cultural como natural, así como también cada uno de los tipos de manifestaciones, sus actores y períodos históricos. Esta red de ontologías no sólo permitirá el acceso a datos del patrimonio sino que éstos podrán ser procesados, integrados y a partir de allí se podrán extraer conclusiones mediante razonamientos automáticos.Fil: Caliusco, Maria Laura. Universidad Tecnológica Nacional. Facultad Regional Santa Fe. Centro de Investigación y Desarrollo de Ingeniería en Sistemas de Información; Argentina. Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas; ArgentinaFil: Reynares, Emiliano. Universidad Tecnológica Nacional. Facultad Regional Santa Fe. Centro de Investigación y Desarrollo de Ingeniería en Sistemas de Información; Argentina. Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas; ArgentinaFil: Gersbach, Martìn. Fundación Patrimonio Abierto; ArgentinaFil: Champenois, Grégoire. Experto en gestión del patrimonio cultural; Argentin

Spatial ontologies for architectural heritage

Informatics and artificial intelligence have generated new requirements for digital archiving, information, and documentation. Semantic interoperability has become fundamental for the management and sharing of information. The constraints to data interpretation enable both database interoperability, for data and schemas sharing and reuse, and information retrieval in large datasets. Another challenging issue is the exploitation of automated reasoning possibilities. The solution is the use of domain ontologies as a reference for data modelling in information systems. The architectural heritage (AH) domain is considered in this thesis. The documentation in this field, particularly complex and multifaceted, is well-known to be critical for the preservation, knowledge, and promotion of the monuments. For these reasons, digital inventories, also exploiting standards and new semantic technologies, are developed by international organisations (Getty Institute, ONU, European Union). Geometric and geographic information is essential part of a monument. It is composed by a number of aspects (spatial, topological, and mereological relations; accuracy; multi-scale representation; time; etc.). Currently, geomatics permits the obtaining of very accurate and dense 3D models (possibly enriched with textures) and derived products, in both raster and vector format. Many standards were published for the geographic field or in the cultural heritage domain. However, the first ones are limited in the foreseen representation scales (the maximum is achieved by OGC CityGML), and the semantic values do not consider the full semantic richness of AH. The second ones (especially the core ontology CIDOC – CRM, the Conceptual Reference Model of the Documentation Commettee of the International Council of Museums) were employed to document museums’ objects. Even if it was recently extended to standing buildings and a spatial extension was included, the integration of complex 3D models has not yet been achieved. In this thesis, the aspects (especially spatial issues) to consider in the documentation of monuments are analysed. In the light of them, the OGC CityGML is extended for the management of AH complexity. An approach ‘from the landscape to the detail’ is used, for considering the monument in a wider system, which is essential for analysis and reasoning about such complex objects. An implementation test is conducted on a case study, preferring open source applications

Nodos: Enciclopedia de las Artes Escénicas

The main goal of Nodos is to promote the collective creation of semantic knowledge regarding performing arts. Recording and curating information about these expressions contributes to the preservation of the Intangible Cultural Heritage, as defined by UNESCO. One of the challenges related to the preservation of information is the large amount of people involved in the creation and development of scenic arts and the dynamism in these theater pieces. The large number of plays presented every year makes it difficult to keep records up to date, resulting in the loss of knowledge about many cultural pieces. This article introduces a way to record such cultural heritage in the context of a citizen science project. Nodos defines an ontology regarding performing arts and also uses a semantic wiki that helps in the implementation of the ontology. An evaluation of usability shows Nodos as an effective initiative to preserve and study performing arts.Nodos es un proyecto que posee como objetivo promover y generar una exhaustiva base de conocimiento sobre artes performáticas. El registro de este tipo de artes contribuye a la preservación del Patrimonio Cultural Intangible definido por UNESCO. Uno de los desafíos está dado por la gran cantidad de personas vinculadas y el dinamismo que presentan las obras. La dificultad de documentar las numerosas obras presentadas cada año conlleva la pérdida de los registros de muchas de las obras. En este artículo se presenta una forma de registrar ese tipo de patrimonio cultural en el contexto de un proyecto de ciencia ciudadana. Específicamente, por medio de la definición de una ontología sobre las artes escénicas y la utilización de una wiki semántica. Finalmente, una evaluación de usabilidad muestra que Nodos es una iniciativa efectiva para preservar y estudiar a las artes escénicas.Laboratorio de Investigación y Formación en Informática Avanzad

Nodos: Encyclopedia of the Performing Arts

The main goal of Nodos is to promote the collective creation of semantic knowledge regarding performing arts. Recording and curating information about these expressions contributes to the preservation of the Intangible Cultural Heritage, as defined by UNESCO. One of the challenges related to the preservation of information is the large amount of people involved in the creation and development of scenic arts and the dynamism in these theater pieces. The large number of plays presented every year makes it difficult to keep records up to date, resulting in the loss of knowledge about many cultural pieces. This article introduces a way to record such cultural heritage in the context of a citizen science project. Nodos defines an ontology regarding performing arts and also uses a semantic wiki that helps in the implementation of the ontology. An evaluation of usability shows Nodos as an effective initiative to preserve and study performing arts

A Comparison of Cartographic and Toponymic Databases in a Multilingual Environment: A Methodology for Detecting Redundancies Using ETL and GIS Tools

Toponymy, a transversal discipline for geography, linguistics, and history, finds one of its main supports in cartography. Due to exhaustiveness on the territory, cadastral cartography and its toponymy have the ideal characteristics to develop systematic geographical analyses. Moreover, cadastre and geographical names are part of the geographic reference data according to Annex 1 of the INSPIRE directive. This work presents the design, implementation, and application of a methodology based on Geographic Information Systems and Extract, Transform, and Load (ETL) tools for detecting coincidences between the cadastral geoinformation and the official gazetteer corresponding to the province of Gipuzkoa, Spain. Methodologically, this study proposes a solution to the issues raised by bilingualism in the study area. This problem is approached a priori, in the previous data treatment, and a posteriori, applying semantic criteria. The results show a match between the datasets of close to 40%. In this way, the uniqueness and richness of the analyzed source and its outstanding contribution to the potential integration of the official toponymic corpus are evidenced