Spatio-temporal reasoning in CIDOC CRM: an hybrid ontology with GeoSPARQL and OWL-Time
Gilles‐Antoine Nys, Muriel van RUYMBEKE, Roland Billen · Open Repository and Bibliography (University of Liège) · 2018
Semantic description of cultural heritage information is already widely structured through CIDOC CRM and its different extensions. This shared understanding of cultural heritage information has already proved its usefulness. Until now, despite its spatial and temporal data management proposition, lack standardization limited the possibilities in terms of reasoning and workability. This paper proposes to increase the potentiality offered by the current scheme by including GeoSPARQL and OWL-Time in the framework. The result, as hybrid ontology, allows concurrent spatial and temporal handling. These are used to provide a near-full data management for complex spatio-temporal reasoning and querying through SPARQL queries. Example queries depicting the strength of the approach and allowing knowledge discovery in huge archaeological datasets illustrate its benefits