Linked open data e rappresentazione del patrimonio culturale: un caso applicativo per diffondere la conoscenza dei beni culturali ecclesiastici nel web semantico
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https://doi.org/10.36181/digitalia-00047Keywords:
Semantic web, Linked Open Data, Church cultural heritage, ReuseAbstract
Many cultural heritage institutions like libraries, archives and museums (LAMs) have been applying semantic web technologies and are beginning to adopt linked open data (LOD) as a way to organize and disseminate the catalogues describing their holdings: the challenge is to represent hidden knowledge in data, making it immediately understandable to machines. Through the delicate phase of unambiguous definition of concepts and relationships representing a certain portion of knowledge (data modelling), the semantic web acts as a tool that brings out meanings and produce new mutual relationships. This paper aims at exploring the possibilities offered by LOD to enhance the visibility of ecclesiastical cultural heritage data presented on BeWeB, a crossdomain web portal dedicated to the cultural and artistic heritage of the Italian Catholic Church, by providing an integrated view of data regarding churches, artwork and items of worship they contain, library and archive holdings of diocesan and religious institutes, with a special focus on cultural, scientific and pastoral care aspects, in order to supply an authoritative tool to know more about these extraordinary assets. The digital inventory of ecclesiastical cultural and artistic heritage, that the
Italian Bishops’ Conference (CEI) urged Italian dioceses – with the support of the National Office for Ecclesiastical Cultural Heritage (BCE National Office) acting as coordinator – to implement since 1997, has led in the last twenty years to the creation of a massive digital data bank. The inventory documents an extremely important, sizeable and peculiar cultural heritage, and testifies to the sense of responsibility and spirit of service of dioceses and religious institutes. BeWeB offers an overview of the ecclesiastical cultural heritage preserved in Italy, where the authority data becomes a hub to weave relationships between
cultural resources of different nature (historical-artistic, architectural, bibliographic, archival, photographic, cultural institutes).
The project aims to achieve full semantic interoperability, through the analysis of the already existing ontologies in the cultural domain, to encourage their reuse. BeWeB is therefore a highly representative case study, with precious insights
about the process behind the elaboration of knowledge graph projects and the production of LOD in general.
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