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

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

Associated Entities

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

Location

Rome.

Research Activities

Linked Open Data, Modeling, Programming.

Technologies Used

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

Outputs

ArCo SPARQL Endpoint, ArCo Dataset.

Homepage

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

Project Status

Completed

Research Project

This record catalogues digital scholarly activity as an instance of the PROV-O Activity class. This activity represents academic research projects that have produced digital scholarly objects. See the Documentation page for more information.

Permalink

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