Articolo in rivista, 2020, ENG, 10.3233/SW-200421

Representing narratives in digital libraries: the narrative ontology

Meghini C.; Bartalesi V.; Metilli D.

CNR-ISTI, Pisa, Italy; CNR-ISTI, Pisa, Italy; CNR-ISTI, Pisa, Italy

Digital Libraries (DLs), especially in the Cultural Heritage domain, are rich in narratives. Every digital object in a DL tells some kind of story, regardless of the medium, the genre, or the type of the object. However, DLs do not offer services about narratives, for example it is not possible to discover a narrative, to create one, or to compare two narratives. Certainly, DLs offer discovery functionalities over their contents, but these services merely address the objects that carry the narratives (e.g. books, images, audiovisual objects), without regard for the narratives themselves. The present work aims at introducing narratives as first-class citizens in DLs, by providing a formal expression of what a narrative is. In particular, this paper presents a conceptualisation of the domain of narratives, and its specification through the Narrative Ontology (NOnt for short), expressed in first-order logic. NOnt has been implemented as an extension of three standard vocabularies, i.e. the CIDOC CRM, FRBRoo, and OWL Time, and using the SWRL rule language to express the axioms. On the basis of NOnt, we have developed the Narrative Building and Visualising (NBVT) tool, and applied it in four case studies to validate the ontology. NOnt is also being validated in the context of the Mingei European project, in which it is applied to the representation of knowledge about Craft Heritage.

Semantic web (Print) 12 (2), pp. 241–264

Keywords

Narrative, Digital libraries, Semantic Web, Ontology, Cultural heritage, Craft heritage

CNR authors

Metilli Daniele, Bartalesi Lenzi Valentina, Meghini Carlo

CNR institutes

ISTI – Istituto di scienza e tecnologie dell'informazione "Alessandro Faedo"

ID: 442828

Year: 2020

Type: Articolo in rivista

Creation: 2021-01-24 23:35:49.000

Last update: 2023-07-04 15:10:02.000

External IDs

CNR OAI-PMH: oai:it.cnr:prodotti:442828

DOI: 10.3233/SW-200421

Scopus: 2-s2.0-85100289810

ISI Web of Science (WOS): 000613905500006