The The Cultural Heritage Interactions Ontology is intended to describe the interactions between material and immaterial cultural heritage (CH) that occur in time. In other words, it relates a CH object with 1) ideas and values that are relevant in the context(s) in which the object is located (i.e., a belief system) 2) the function(s) that such objects acquire in different contexts, 4) the evolution of these features over time, and 4) their interaction with contextual ephemeral events and immaterial cultural heritage practices.
This repository documents the ontology, proposed in a draft version, its documentation and development. The ontology is based on Ted Nelson's frame theory [1], enriched with the contributions on spacetime frames of Erwin Panofsky [2] and of the theory of frames of Minsky [3]. The analysis of Cultural Heritage object in context, in relation with the functions that the object acquires in different belief systems, is based on Anderson [4].
[1] T. Nelson, Literary Machines 1993, 93.1.
[2] E. Panofsky, Zum Problem der historischen Zeit, in: Aufsätze zu Grundfragen der Kunstwissenschaft, H. Oberer and E. Verheyen, eds., Volker Spiess, Berlin 1964, pp.77–83. English version cited, J. Bauman, Reflections on Historical Time, Critical Inquiry 30, 4 (2004), 691–701.
[3] M. Minsky, A Framework for Representing Knowledge. in: The psychology of computer vision, P. H. Winston, ed., McGraw-Hill Book, New York, 1975, pp. 111-142.
[4] T. Anderson, Towards a Cross-Cultural Approach to Art Criticism, Studies in Art Education 36, 4 (1995), 198-209.
The current repository provides the ontology at the current draft status, its documentation, and development:
- The documentation is available at: https://sofibar.github.io/CulturalHeritageHistoricalContext/
- The ontological framework is composed of four different modules, available in Modules. We suggest to read the single modules for a better understanding of the ontology.
- The development, conducted following the SAMOD method [5], is illustrated in Development
Note: it was not possible to import the Recurrent Situation and Event ODPs [6, 7] due to their unavailability. For this reason, we imported only the single classes and properties that we reused in the modules. Furthermore, the DOLCE ontology downloadable at its URI is not the last released version. We insert a copy of the used ontology version in the "imported-ontologies" folder for a better review.
[5] S. Peroni, S, SAMOD: An agile methodology for the development of ontologies, in: Proceedings of the 13th OWL: Experiences and Directions Workshop and 5th OWL Reasoner Evaluation Workshop (OWLED-ORE 2016), 2016. https://doi.org/10.6084/M9.FIGSHARE.3189769
[6] V.A. Carriero, A. Gangemi, A.G. Nuzzolese and V. Presutti, An Ontology Design Pattern for Representing Recurrent Situations, in: Advances in Pattern-Based Ontology Engineering, edited by E. Blomqvist, T. Hahmann, K. Hahmann, P. Hitzler, R. Hoekstra, R. Mutharaju, M. Poveda-Villalón, eds., pp. 166–182. Studies on the Semantic Web. IOS Press Ebooks, 2021. https://doi.org/10.3233/SSW210013.
[7] V.A. Carriero, A. Gangemi, A. G.i Nuzzolese, and V. Presutti. An Ontology Design Pattern for Representing Recurrent Events, in: WOP@ ISWC, pp. 59–70, 2019. https://ceur-ws.org/Vol-2459/pattern1.pdf.