For more information: https://andalexproject.iarthislab.eu/semantic-web-seminar/
We are happy to announce the international seminar: Semantic Web,
Cultural Heritage, and Art Historical Knowledge: Conceptual Models,
Ontologies, and Epistemological Implications
March 27-28, 2023
Museo Picasso Málaga / online
Scientific coordination: Nuria Rodríguez Ortega, M.ª Mar Roldán (UMA),
M.ª Luisa Díez Platas (UNIR)
Organized by: iArtHis_Lab, Art History Department, Research and Transfer
Vicerrectorate, Telefónica-UMA Chair, University of Málaga
With the collaboration of: Museo Picasso Málaga
Organization of this event is supported through: Comité Español de
Historia del Arte (CEHA) and Sociedad Internacional de Humanidades
Digitales Hispánicas
The adoption of semantic web technologies (especially the development of
ontologies and knowledge graphs) in the cultural heritage and art
history fields is of great interest due to their potential to diversify
the forms of access to cultural contents, to amplify the narratives that
can be developed from them, and to increase the possibilities of
extracting implicit knowledge from large datasets. Likewise, semantic
web technologies facilitate the structured and semantically enriched
recording of cultural contents, make possible their publication as
linked open data (LOD), increase the interoperability of distributed
information, and provide the mechanisms that allow data reuse for new
knowledge and value generation. The results achieved so far are
important; however, there are still numerous challenges to be faced.
Within the framework of the Andalex and Complexhibit projects, the
iArtHis_Lab research team has been working for some time on the
development of OntoExhibit, an ontology that aspires to make a
contribution to the advancement of the semantic web research
infrastructures in the field of cultural heritage and art historical
knowledge. OntoExhibit is an ontology developed in OWL2 and RDF
standards that is being designed to enable the representation,
publication, access, and reuse of the semantically enriched encoded
information of the art exhibition domain and its curatorial, discursive
and social practices.
Based on some of the problematic issues encountered in the development
of OntoExhibit, in this seminar we particularly want to delve into the
epistemological implications involved in the building of conceptual
models and ontologies for the cultural heritage and art history fields:
fuzzy and ambiguous temporalities, overlapping and interweaving
interpretative layers, post-anthropocentric conceptual hierarchies,
epistemological biases, cultural conventions embedded in existing
models, etc.; these are just some of the issues that will be addressed
in this seminar.
This seminar brings together a group of experts with extensive
experience in the intersection between semantic web technologies and the
cultural field to shed light on these and other questions.
The attendance to the seminar is free and open to everyone, with no
registration fees. Attendance may be in person or online. Registration
is required in both cases due to limited capacity. Registrants will be
sent the connection link a few days before the seminar begins.
Attendance certificates will be issued on demand.
More information and registration form at:
https://andalexproject.iarthislab.eu/semantic-web-seminar/
Program
9:30-10:00 Opening and Introduction
10:00-10:45. Fátima Díez Platas (USC). Images, roles and books: the
ontology of the Biblioteca Digital Ovidiana
10:45-11:00. Selenia Anastasi (University of Genoa): Feminist Digital
Humanities and the Semantic Web. Towards an Integrated Research Agenda
11:00.11:30. Coffee break
11:30-12:45. Nuria Rodríguez-Ortega (UMA), M.ª Mar Roldán (UMA), M.ª
Luisa Díez Platas (UNIR): OntoExhibit: modeling the art exhibition
domain and its discursive and social practices.
12:45-13:00. Etienne Posthumus (FIZ Karlsruhe – Leibniz Institute for
Information Infrastructure): When the Saints go Marching In. Solving
epistemological problems for interlinking Digital Art History Corpora
using Linked Data representations of the ICONCLASS subject
classification system
13:00-14:30. Lunch
14:45-15:30. Aldo Gangemi (University of Bologna and ISTC-CNR, Rome):
Ontology networks for cultural heritage and its appraisal
15:30-16:15. Javier Pantoja (Head of the Digital Development Area –
Museo Nacional del Prado): The Prado on the web: exploitation of a
digital semantic model
16:15-17:00. Andrea Vlachidis (University College London): Challenges
and Opportunities of Semantic Modelling and Enrichment in Small and
Large Museum collections
16:45-17:15. Coffee break
17:15-18:00 Discussion
Tuesday 27th
9:30-10:15. César González-Pérez (CSIC-Incipit): The Cultural Heritage
Abstract Reference Model: Design Criteria, Choices, Results and Usage
10:15-11:00. Magdalena Tyżlik-Carver (Aarhus University): Fermenting
Data: developing methods for data practices with others
11:00-11:30. Coffee break
11:30-12:15 Jorge Sebastián Lozano (University of Valencia): Extending
CIDOC CRM for Specific Purposes: Some Lessons Learnt from the SILKNOW
Ontology
12:15-13:00. Charles van den Heuvel (University of Amsterdam):
Conflicting Classifications.
Epistemological, methodological, and ethical challenges in modelling
cultural heritage and art-historical data
13:00-14:30. Lunch
14:45-15:30: Nicola Carboni (University of Geneve), Béatrice
Joyeux-Prunel (University of Geneve): Integration and analysis of
exhibition information using Linked Open Data
15:30-16:15: Javier Sevilla (University of Valencia): Visualization of
knowledge graphs about cultural heritage through ontologies
16:15-17:00. Raúl García Castro (UPM): Decalogue of best practices for
ontology development in the cultural heritage domain
17:00-17:15. Coffee break
17:15-18:00. Discussion and conclusions