Navigating Babel: A Mid-Level Ontology for Cross-Domain Cultural Heritage Discovery
Tan, Mary Ann 1; Gesese, Genet Asefa
1; Sack, Harald 1
1 Institut für Angewandte Informatik und Formale Beschreibungsverfahren (AIFB), Karlsruher Institut für Technologie (KIT)
1; Sack, Harald 11 Institut für Angewandte Informatik und Formale Beschreibungsverfahren (AIFB), Karlsruher Institut für Technologie (KIT)
Abstract:
The Deutsche Digitale Bibliothek (DDB) aggregates objects from libraries, archives, museums, audiovisual archives, monument conservation, and research institutions into a structurally uniform container, the Europeana Data
Model (EDM), yet cross-domain discovery is structurally unsupported. Like Borges’ Library of Babel, the DDB has order without orientation. We identify three structural parallels and propose mocho (Mid-level Ontology for Cross-domain Cultural Heritage Objects), a reusable alignment layer between EDM and GLAM-spanning domain ontologies. mocho defines WEMI 1-typed entities and four alignment patterns.An empirical snapshot of 115k records quantifies the heterogeneity mocho addresses.
Model (EDM), yet cross-domain discovery is structurally unsupported. Like Borges’ Library of Babel, the DDB has order without orientation. We identify three structural parallels and propose mocho (Mid-level Ontology for Cross-domain Cultural Heritage Objects), a reusable alignment layer between EDM and GLAM-spanning domain ontologies. mocho defines WEMI 1-typed entities and four alignment patterns.An empirical snapshot of 115k records quantifies the heterogeneity mocho addresses.
| Zugehörige Institution(en) am KIT | Institut für Angewandte Informatik und Formale Beschreibungsverfahren (AIFB) |
| Publikationstyp | Proceedingsbeitrag |
| Publikationsdatum | 11.06.2026 |
| Sprache | Englisch |
| Identifikator | ISSN: 1613-0073 KITopen-ID: 1000196547 |
| Erschienen in | SemDH 2026 - Semantic Digital Humanities 2026: Proceedings of the Third International Workshop of Semantic Digital Humanities (SemDH 2026) co-located with the Extended Semantic Web Conference 2026 (ESWC 2026) Dubrovnik, Croatia, May 10, 2026. Ed.: O. Bruns, A. Graciotti, B. Sartini, L. Stork, T. Tietz |
| Veranstaltung | 3rd International Workshop of Semantic Digital Humanities (SemDH) co-located with the Extended Semantic Web Conference (SemDH/ESWC 2026), Dubrovnik, Kroatien, 10.05.2026 |
| Verlag | CEUR-WS.org |
| Serie | CEUR Workshop Proceedings ; 4212 |
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