Workshop on

Ontology-Driven Interoperability
for Cultural Heritage Objects

Joint DELOS-MultiMatch event - 15 February 2007
Grand Hotel Continental - Tirrenia, Pisa (Italy)

This event will be held as part of the DELOS Conference (13-14 February 2007).
  

Presentations and Position Papers are now available under Programme.
Full Working Notes are available here.

  

Organization

DELOS: Vittore Casarosa, ISTI-CNR, Italy
MultiMatch: Carol Peters, Alessandro Nardi, ISTI-CNR, Italy

More and more people involved in the management and description of digital objects in the Cultural Heritage domain face similar problems when deciding on the most suitable metadata schema and conceptual reference framework to adopt. This workshop aims at bringing together experts in the field (both theoreticians and practitioners) to discuss what needs to be done to encourage the adoption of suitable standards that cover the current and emerging needs of the Cultural Heritage digital objects. Purpose of the workshop is to investigate the current state-of-the-art, identify common problems and issues, and hopefully formulate recommendations aimed at encouraging (i) adoption of standards, (ii) interoperability.

A few invited speakers will present some of the best known existing ontologies (CIDOC-CRM, MPEG-7, FRBR), followed by some representatives of Cultural Heritage institutions and projects briefly presenting the problems they are currently facing in this area and/or the solutions they are adopting. The idea is to investigate to what extent these well-known conceptual schemas can already be employed to provide exhaustive descriptions and to identify possible problem areas, based on the the experiences of relevant ongoing work. Another objective is to find a common ground for future work in this area.

The workshop is intended for people active in the field and is by invitation only, trying to limit the number of participants to a maximum of about 30. Please contact one of the organizers ( ; ) if you are interested in participating, stating your particular interests, or if you want to suggest possible participants.

Programme

DELOS - Network of Excellence on Digital Libraries
www.delos.info

MultiMatch - Multilingual/Multimedia Access to Cultural Heritage
www.multimatch.org