Authors:
Dimitrios A. Koutsomitropoulos
and
Theodore S. Papatheodorou
Affiliation:
School of Engineering, University of Patras, Greece
Keyword(s):
Ontologies, Reasoning, Cultural Heritage, Semantic Web.
Related
Ontology
Subjects/Areas/Topics:
Artificial Intelligence
;
Data Engineering
;
Digital Libraries
;
Knowledge Management and Information Sharing
;
Knowledge-Based Systems
;
Metadata and Metamodeling
;
Multimedia and User Interfaces
;
Ontologies and the Semantic Web
;
Ontology and the Semantic Web
;
Searching and Browsing
;
Symbolic Systems
;
Web Information Systems and Technologies
;
Web Interfaces and Applications
Abstract:
The cultural heritage knowledge domain is often characterized by complex semantic structures and a great
lot of legacy information, possibly scattered on the Web that is not always properly structured. Thus, to
achieve proper reasoning about this kind of knowledge one needs first a rather expressive model of
representation that would also accommodate for its web distributed nature; and secondly a set of techniques
that would allow for its intelligent and productive manipulation. The former can be served by the CIDOC-CRM
which we first transform to the Semantic Web standard language, OWL and then augment with more
expressive structures, possible only after this transformation. To show the latter we conduct a series of
experimental inferences based on this CRM augmented form, using our Knowledge Discovery Interface.
Our results clearly demonstrate the potential as well as the limitations of such an approach.