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In the recent decades, we have witnessed a tremendous proliferation of metadata schemas, particularly in the cultural heritage domain. As a consequence, there is a growing need to integrate these schemas to solve a number of problems, mainly concerning interoperability issues and loss of implicit knowledge. In this paper, we present a semantic mapping of VRA Core 4.0, a cultural heritage metadata schema describing visual resources, to CIDOC CRM. The mapping rules are expressed formally using a path-based mapping language called Mapping Description Language (MDL). This work is based on a semantic integration scenario, where CIDOC CRM acts as a mediation schema.
This research has been co-financed by the European Union (European Social Fund - ESF) and Greek national funds through the Operational Program “Education and Lifelong Learning” of the National Strategic Reference Framework (NSRF) - Research Funding Program: Heracleitus II. Investing in knowledge society through the European Social Fund.
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Gaitanou, P., Gergatsoulis, M. (2011). A Semantic Mapping of VRA Core 4.0 to the CIDOC Conceptual Reference Model. In: García-Barriocanal, E., Cebeci, Z., Okur, M.C., Öztürk, A. (eds) Metadata and Semantic Research. MTSR 2011. Communications in Computer and Information Science, vol 240. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-24731-6_39
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