2. Metadata models integration: Overview
This task will integrate the metadata used in the
four pilots
Review and analyse vocabularies/ontologies used
in the pilots
Define upper-level ontology for cultural heritage
Create links between individual data models and
upper-level ontology
3. Review of Ontology Requirements
Single Generic Upper-Level Ontology
A Semantic “glue” of common Concepts and Relationships
Scalable and Extensible
Cater for Pilot Specialisations
6. Review of Ontology Requirements
Facilitate Interoperability and Linking to External Resources
Maximum Reuse of Existing Standards when possible
Support the Knowledge Base needs of CC
Semantics : Entities / Concepts
Reasoner and Useful Relationships and Linking
7. Pathway to Ontology Definition
Review Pilot
Datasets D2.1
Review Pilot
Datasets D2.1
Partner DiscussionsPartner Discussions
Identify Common
Concepts
Identify Common
Concepts
Grouping &
Abstraction
Grouping &
Abstraction
Propose MappingsPropose Mappings
8. Dataset Review & Discussions
The partners identified the following entities of interest:
Physical Items
Landmark
Places
Dates
MM Content
Users
Venues
User Profiles
Venue Profiles
Reflection Topics
Routes
User Tracking
Points of Interest (POI)
9. Grouping and Abstraction
Physical Item
Digital MM Content
Reflection Topic
Place
Date
Person
Organisation
10. Core Upper Level Ontology
CC.Reflection Topic
Project Specific Entity
Extends E89.Propositional Object (immaterial Item, topic of discourse)
P670.reflects | P670i is reflected by
Project Specific Entity
Extends P67i.is referred to by | P67.refers to
11. Core Upper Level Ontology
Extensions Provide
Flexibility to introduce semantics closer to CC definition of reflection
topic
A shortcut for connecting CC.Reflection Topic with E18.Physical Thing
14. Apply Ontology to Pilot Examples
Example from Pilot 4
Max plays a treasure hunt game in Luxemburg.
He got interested in the statue of Tall Banker. He
found its location on the map of Kirchberg
together with a group of objects, all related to the
thread of cross-border worker
18. Next Steps
Further Refinement and Improvement
Emerging Semantic Interoperability Requirement
Scope and Structure of the Reflective Topic semantics
Integrate CC Knowledge Base
User Ontology
Venue Ontology
Populate ontology with data from the 4 pilots’ datasets
Overview on the requirements of theT2.2 task, highlighting the the focus on integration of diverse resources under an overarching layer of semantics. The CrossCult Upper-level ontology fosters the semantic harmonization of disparate cultural heritage datasets.
The main requirements of the Upper-level ontology can be summarized into the following points; Single Generic Upper-Level Ontology – an overarching scheme, used as a Semantic “glue” of common Concepts and Relationships, the should be Scalable and Extensible to accommodate new pilot cases and reflection scenarios, but which at the same time is flexible to address Specialisations needs of each pilot.
The Upper-level ontology as the semantic glue layer between the CC Knowledge Base structures and the Semantic Web.
In addition the review process reveled another set of requirements relating to the semantic enrichment of data. The Upper-ontology structure is required to enable linking to semantic web definitions and to take full advantage of reusing existing standard ontological definitions.
The pathway to ontology definition, passes from an initial review of datasets and partner discussions, in the light of identifying the shared semantic between pilot dataset and scenarios. Then the revealed semantics are grouped into conceptual abstractions, which propose standard definitions and mapping to CIDOC-CRM, SKOS, FOAF
A set of concepts as emerged by the first round of reviewing the datasets and discussing with the pilots.
More formal abstractions of the common - across the pilots- concepts.
The specialization of the project specific entity Reflection Topic is based is required for enabling the semantics a Physical Thing to reflect one or more reflective topic propositions.
The Reflective Topic as a central node between the core entities of an ontological scheme
Formal expression in CIDOC-CRM of the relationship between Reflective Topic and Physical Thing and core entities of the Upper-level ontology.
A scenario description from Pilot 4
The scenario expressed in formal semantics
A view of the Upper-level ontology in Protégé
Demonstration of the volume of relationships of the ontology individual POI Tall Banker in the Upper-level structure.
The final version of the ontology will be delivered in M25, the work is ongoing and further refinements are expected to take place. The CC knowledge base will integrate the user and venue ontologies.