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Integrating Dublin Core metadata for cultural heritage collections using ontologies

Kakali, Constantia and Lourdi, Irene and Stasinopoulou, Thomais and Bountouri, Lina and Papatheodorou, Christos and Doerr, Martin and Gergatsoulis, Manolis (2007) Integrating Dublin Core metadata for cultural heritage collections using ontologies. In Proceedings International Conference on Dublin Core and Metadata Applications, pp. 128-139, Singapore.

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Abstract

Metadata interoperability is an active research area, especially for cultural heritage collections, which consist of heterogeneous objects described by a variety of metadata schemas. In this paper we propose an ontology-based metadata interoperability approach, which exploits, in an optimal way, the semantics of metadata schemas. In particular, we propose the use of CIDOC/CRM ontology as a mediating schema and present a methodology for mapping DC Type Vocabulary to CIDOC/CRM, demonstrating a real-world effort for ontology-based metadata integration.

Keywords:ontology-based integration, metadata interoperability, CIDOC/CRM, DC-Type
Subjects:I. Information treatment for information services > ID. Knowledge representation.
I. Information treatment for information services > IE. Data and metadata structures.
I. Information treatment for information services > IF. Information transfer: protocols, formats, techniques.
ID Code:12522
Deposited By:Bountouri, Lina
Deposited On:25 January 2008
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