Semantic topologies for complex medieval buildings and their annotation
Basic considerations for the description of historic architecture in the Semantic Web
Keywords:
Ontologies, Linked Data, Semantic Topology, Heritage Conservation, Architectural HistoryAbstract
Semantic technologies can be used not only to create ontologies as controlled vocabularies for historical architecture. Rather, they also make it possible to map the spatial and structural relationships within a building. Using an OWL ontology developed for the use in the MonArch system with a lean, non-event-oriented data model, it is shown how the relationships between the individual elements of a building (buildings parts, spatial units, structural components, architectural surfaces) have to be set. The result is a consistent structure graph and thus a semantic topology as an object-related data infrastructure that enables the interaction of different disciplines in heritage conservation in everyday practice. At the same time, it is connectable to other data models, such as CRMba.
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