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An Ontology for Gendered Content Representation of Cultural Heritage Artefacts

Kyvernitou, I; Bikakis, A; (2017) An Ontology for Gendered Content Representation of Cultural Heritage Artefacts. Digital Humanities Quarterly , 11 (3) Green open access

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Abstract

The need for organising and digitally processing the vast amount of Cultural Heritage (CH) information has recently led to the development of formal knowledge representation models (ontologies) for the CH domain. Existing models, however, do not capture gender-related concepts. This article presents an effort to fill this gap by developing a new ontology for the representation of gendered concepts in CH resources.1 The new ontology, named ‘GenderedCHContents’ resulted from combined research in women’s studies, gender theory and computer science. Its primary aim is to draw attention to the presence of women within CH artefacts. The proposed ontology extends the Europeana Data Model (EDM) with twenty-two new classes, sixteen object properties and seven datatype properties. The article presents a demonstration of the ‘GenderedCHContents’ ontology’s use in five different representation tasks, which describe five resources related to Pandora’s myth. Lastly, the study stresses the benefits of reasoning support (i.e. enabling computers to infer further information from a set of asserted facts) in revealing different gender ideals and inferred relationships between metaphorical concepts, along with the benefits of the Semantic Web in making information about gendered contents more easily retrievable to the users.

Type: Article
Title: An Ontology for Gendered Content Representation of Cultural Heritage Artefacts
Open access status: An open access version is available from UCL Discovery
Publisher version: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/dhq/vol/11/3/0003...
Language: English
Additional information: This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-No Derivatives 4.0 International License.
UCL classification: UCL
UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices
UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL SLASH
UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL SLASH > Faculty of Arts and Humanities
UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL SLASH > Faculty of Arts and Humanities > Dept of Information Studies
URI: https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10041951
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