Ontology-Based Metadata Integration in the Cultural Heritage Domain^*

Thomais Stasinopoulou¹, Lina Bountouri¹, Constantia Kakali¹, Irene Lourdi¹, Christos Papatheodorou¹, Martin Doerr², and Manolis Gergatsoulis¹

¹Department of Archive and Library Sciences, Ionian University, Palea Anaktora, Plateia Eleftherias, 49100 Corfu, Greece
stasthomais@yahoo.gr
boudouri@ionio.gr
nkakal@panteion.gr
elourdi@lib.uoa.gr
papatheodor@ionio.gr
manolis@ionio.gr

²Institute of Computer Science Foundation for Research and Technology, Vassilika Vouton P.O.Box 1385 GR 711 10 Heraklion, Crete Greece
martin@ics.forth.gr

Abstract. In this paper, we propose an ontology-based metadata integration methodology for the cultural heritage domain. The proposed real - world approach considers an integration architecture in which CIDOC/CRM ontology acts as a mediating scheme. In this context, we present a mapping methodology from Encoded Archival Description (EAD) and Dublin Core (DC) metadata to CIDOC/CRM, and discuss the faced difficulties.

Keywords: Ontology-based Integration, Metadata interoperability, Cultural Information, CIDOC/CRM, EAD, DC

^*The research work of the authors I. Lourdi, L. Bountouri, and M. Gergatsoulis was partially co-funded by the European Social Fund (75%) and National Resources (25%) -Operational Program for Educational and Vocational Training (EPEAEK II) and particularly by the Research Program “PYTHAGORAS II”. The research work of the authors C. Kakali, Th. Stasinopoulou, C. Papatheodorou and M. Doerr was supported by DELOS Network of Excellence on Digital Libraries funded by European Commission.

LNCS 4822, p. 165 ff.

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