Using Ontologies as a Faceted Browsing for Heterogeneous Cultural Heritage Collections

Francesca Tomasi, Fabio Ciotti, Marilena Daquino, Maurizio Lana
2015 International Conference of the Italian Association for Artificial Intelligence  
In this paper we present a project regarding the possible use of multiple and interconnected OWL ontologies (GO!, HiCo, and Proles) in order to explore the semantic content of heterogeneous digital collections (a digital library, a full-text scholarly edition, and a relational database) in the cultural heritage domain (Geolat, Vespasiano da Bisticci Letters, and Zeri photo archive). The aim is to discover knowledge by revealing, through facets, possible latent connectionsor even contradictory
more » ... atementsbetween data, moving from person, places and dates in an event-centric dimension determined by a contextoriented perspective.
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