Title: Towards a reference model for addressing the cultural snapshot phenomenon in cultural mapping libraries

Authors: Spiridon Mousouris; Evangelia Kavakli

Addresses: Department of Cultural Technology and Communication, University of the Aegean, Mytilene, Greece ' Department of Cultural Technology and Communication, University of the Aegean, Mytilene, Greece

Abstract: This article discusses Digital Libraries that geovisualise cultural data, highlighting the need to define them as a category termed 'Cultural Mapping Libraries', based on the culture-location connection they contain. An exploratory analysis identified that Digital Libraries fail to geovisualise the entirety of cultural data per location, i.e., their evolution through time. This results in the 'Cultural Snapshot' phenomenon, confirmed by a systematic bibliographic research. To address it, we aim to propose a set of Semantic Web axioms, to define and inference the phases of cultural data through time, per location. This evolution is expressed as states over time, in an event-oriented model. This article focuses on creating a model as part of the Culture Domain of Cultural Mapping Libraries, to eventually produce axioms that enhance understating of phases per place, thus supporting their efficient geovisualisation. To achieve this, axioms will have to semantically integrate geospatial cultural data, enabling data interconnection and reasoning.

Keywords: digital libraries; semantic web; reference model; geovisualisation; cultural informatics; CIDOC-CRM.

DOI: 10.1504/IJMSO.2024.145509

International Journal of Metadata, Semantics and Ontologies, 2024 Vol.17 No.1, pp.1 - 17

Received: 10 Aug 2023
Accepted: 23 Apr 2024
Published online: 02 Apr 2025 *

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