Dal Catalogo generale dei beni culturali al knowledge graph del patrimonio culturale italiano: il progetto ArCo

ICCD always aimed at sharing the models for structuring knowledge on cultural heritage and the data produced in cataloging campaigns. In recent years, the ICCD has focused its activities on the semantic web and its tools. One of the results is the ArCo project, the graph of knowledge of the Italian cultural heritage, consisting of a network of ontologies and more than 169 million triples referring to over 800 thousand catalog cards. ArCo is based on the data of the General Catalog of Cultural Heritage of the Central Institute for the catalog and documentation of MiBACT and on the data of its photographic archives. ArCo is jointly distributed with a SPARQL endpoint, a software to convert catalog records into RDF and a rich suite of documentation material (tests, evaluation, instructions, examples, etc.)