ArCo - Architecture of Knowledge

Description

ArCo is the Knowledge Graph of the Italian Cultural Heritage: it consists of 7 vocabularies describing the cultural heritage domain and data from the General Catalogue of the Italian Ministry of Cultural Heritage and Activities (MiBAC) published as RDF. The ontologies are organised in a network for modelling different kind of cultural properties and their corresponding catalog records. Those cultural properties and records are currently managed by the SIGEC system of the Italian Central Institute for Cataloguing and Documentation.

Primary Subjects

Informatics, Cultural Heritage, Archival science, bibliography and librarianship.

Associated Entities

Istituto di scienze e tecnologie della cognizione, Istituto centrale per il catalogo e la documentazione, Consiglio nazionale delle ricerche, MiBAC - Direzione generale biblioteche e istituti culturali, STLab.

Location

Rome.

Research Activities

Modeling, Programming, Linked Open Data.

Technologies Used

FRBR, Linked Open Data, SPARQL, CIDOC CRM, RDF.

Outputs

ArCo Dataset, ArCo SPARQL Endpoint.

Homepage

http://wit.istc.cnr.it/arco/

Project Status

Completed

Research Project

This record catalogues digital scholarly activity (academic research projects) as an instance of the PROV-O Activity class. See the Documentation page for more information.

Permalink

http://purl.org/knot/data/arco-project