Ontologies for Cultural Heritage

Martin Doerr ()

A chapter in Handbook on Ontologies, 2009, pp 463-486 from Springer

Abstract: Summary In the cultural heritage domain information systems are increasingly deployed, digital representations of physical objects are produced in immense numbers and there is a strong political pressure on memory institutions to make their holdings accessible to the public in digital form. The sector splits into a set of disciplines with highly specialized fields. Due to the resulting diversity, one can hardly speak about a “domain” in the sense of “domain ontologies” [33]. On the other side, study and research of the past is highly interdisciplinary. Characteristically, archaeology employs a series of “auxiliary” disciplines, such as archaeometry, archaeomedicine, archaeobotany, archaeometallurgy, archaeoastronomy, etc., but also historical sources and social theories.

Keywords: Cultural Heritage; Formal Ontology; Core Ontology; Facet Classification; Metadata Element (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2009
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DOI: 10.1007/978-3-540-92673-3_21

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