An ontological model for conservation-restoration of cultural objects

Abstract

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Semantic models and services for conservation and restoration of cultural heritage: A comprehensive survey

“…Practically, they need to accumulate and exchange a wide range of information regarding material and immaterial aspects of the conservation object, and of similar conservation objects, as well as general knowledge and implementation examples about diagnosis methods and results, conservation interventions and preventive measures [6]. The combination of these pieces of information is critical to the overall CnR process, since professionals reach conclusions, make decisions, and eventually conduct the appropriate intervention based on this information [34,84]. For this purpose, CnR professionals need to access, compare, combine, analyze, and often visualize the relevant information (either retrieved or produced).…”

“…First, CnR laboratories record their data in databases isolated from each other, each one developed according to different requirements which stem from different specializations [81,83,110]. Second, CnR data can be found in various forms, structured (e.g., in the form of relational databases), semi-structured (XML annotated documents) or unstructured (free texts), and, as such, are not semantically interoperable [84,110]. Lastly, the CnR domain heavily suffers from terminology inconsistency, since domain specialists tend to use specialized terms in diverse ways 4 [84,115].…”

“…Second, CnR data can be found in various forms, structured (e.g., in the form of relational databases), semi-structured (XML annotated documents) or unstructured (free texts), and, as such, are not semantically interoperable [84,110]. Lastly, the CnR domain heavily suffers from terminology inconsistency, since domain specialists tend to use specialized terms in diverse ways 4 [84,115]. Even though difficult to achieve, data interoperability (syntactic as well as semantic) and exchange is vital for the CnR domain, and the SW provides very promising means to tackle the aforementioned issues, paving the way to effective and efficient organization and management of information [84,110].…”

“…Lastly, the CnR domain heavily suffers from terminology inconsistency, since domain specialists tend to use specialized terms in diverse ways 4 [84,115]. Even though difficult to achieve, data interoperability (syntactic as well as semantic) and exchange is vital for the CnR domain, and the SW provides very promising means to tackle the aforementioned issues, paving the way to effective and efficient organization and management of information [84,110]. Information integration from different sources, efficient retrieval, and juxtaposition of information, as well as identification of conservation issues 1 Conservation object refers to "the object which is worthy of conservation, and not only repair, maintenance, cleaning, or care" [79].…”

“…and recommendation of solutions are some services which SW technologies may provide, thereby significantly facilitating the various stages of the CnR process in terms of information management and exploitation [14,19,84]. In this context, the CnR community has made ample attempts to develop semantic models for representing aspects of CnR knowledge and to deploy those models in various data modelling and management tasks, proposing interesting solutions that could dramatically change the way conservation experts acquire and utilize CnR information for supporting the CnR process.…”