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Ontologizing the Heritage Building Domain

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Advances in Digital Cultural Heritage

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New challenges for cultural heritage have arisen from the expansion of digitalization, the broader range of available applications, and the increase in individuals and organizations interested in obtaining and sharing heritage knowledge. Supporting digital knowledge sharing relating to cultural heritage entails the challenges of structuring and transforming of data to information, information to knowledge and knowledge to application, etc. Digital cultural heritage processes must be knowledge-based and interoperable. Knowledge-based approaches using the concepts of linked data and ontologies are recognized as a basis for efficient solutions.

The paper investigates the development of ontology for the domain of heritage buildings as part of the wider domain of cultural heritage. A two-iterations-based process is presented.

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Acknowledgement

The research was motivated by the project COST TD1406 - Innovation in Intelligent Management of Heritage Buildings, Work Group 2 - Interoperability for Heritage Building’s Sustainability.

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  1. Faculty of Civil Engineering, Transportation Engineering and Architecture, University of Maribor, Maribor, Slovenia

    Andrej Tibaut & Daniela Dvornik Perhavec

  2. Initut, Institute of Information Technology Ltd., Maribor, Slovenia

    Branko Kaučič

  3. National Research Council, Institute for the Conservation and Valorization of Cultural Heritage, Florence, Italy

    Piero Tiano

  4. Electrical Engineering Department, Faculty of Sciences and Technology, Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Lisbon, Portugal

    João Martins

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Tibaut, A., Kaučič, B., Dvornik Perhavec, D., Tiano, P., Martins, J. (2018). Ontologizing the Heritage Building Domain. In: Ioannides, M., Martins, J., Žarnić, R., Lim, V. (eds) Advances in Digital Cultural Heritage. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 10754. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-75789-6_11

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