Integrating GIS with the semantic web for cultural heritage
Posted on April 24, 2013 by Farallon Geographics Team The
SemanticWeb.com has published The Arches Project Puts A Semantic
And Geo-Spatial Spin On Cultural Heritage which describes how
the Arches project, a collaboration between the Getty
Conservation Institute, World Monuments Fund and Farallon
Geographics delivers a semantic geospatial solution for cultural
heritage management. Arches grew out of earlier work to develop
MEGA-Jordan, a purpose-built GIS to inventory and manage
archaeology sites at a national level for that country. Arches
was designed to be more flexible, able to accommodate any
country or immovable cultural heritage institution. It was also
designed to be more than a GIS and inventory management system.
The Semantic Web for Cultural Heritage Currently, many archives,
libraries, museums, and other cultural heritage institutions
make use of the CIDOC Conceptual Reference Model, an information
standard that provides a common and exten