The present paper concerns the design of the semantic infrastructure of the digital space for cultural heritage as envisaged by the European Commission in its recent documents. Due to the complexity of the cultural heritage data and of their intrinsic interrelationships, it is necessary to introduce a novel ontology, yet compliant with existing standards and interoperable with previous platforms used in this context, such as Europeana. The digital space organization must be tailored to the methods and the theory of cultural heritage, briefly summarized in the introduction. The new ontology is based on the Digital Twin concept, i.e. the digital counterpart of cultural heritage assets incorporating all the digital information pertaining to them. This creates a Knowledge Base on the cultural heritage digital space. The paper outlines the main features of the proposed Heritage Digital Twin ontology and provides some examples of application. Future work will include completing the ontology in all its details and testing it in other real cases and with the various sectors of the cultural heritage community.
翻译:本文件涉及欧洲联盟委员会在其最近文件中设想的文化遗产数字空间的语义基础设施的设计,由于文化遗产数据及其内在相互关系的复杂性,有必要引入一种新的本体学,但符合现有标准,并与欧洲等以前在这方面使用的平台互操作。数字空间组织必须适应在导言中简要概述的文化遗产的方法和理论。新的本体学以数字双概念为基础,即包含与其有关的所有数字信息的文化遗产资产的数字对等物,从而创建了文化遗产数字空间知识库。本文件概述了拟议的遗产数字双体学的主要特征,并提供了一些应用实例。未来工作将包括完成所有细节的本体学,并在其他实例和文化遗产界各部门测试本体学。