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Heritage Science and Cultural Heritage: standards and tools for establishing cross-domain data interoperability

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This paper describes a system for documenting scientific data produced in Heritage Sciences. The system is built around a general meta-model, flexible enough to provide descriptions, in a formal language, of the datasets produced by scientific research. Resulting metadata can be re-encoded and published in multiple formats. The underlying metadata schema is inspired by CIDOC CRM principles for data modelling and maintains a full compatibility with CIDOC CRM ontology to capture provenance and foster interoperability with Cultural Heritage information. The use of a wide set of thesauri and controlled vocabularies guarantees internal coherence at data and metadata level. Applicability tests are underway at different institutions and a set of user interfaces has been designed to simplify and speed up the process of data gathering and metadata definition.

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The present research has been partially supported by the European Commission, projects PARTHENOS and ARIADNEplus.

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  1. INFN - Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare, Florence, Italy

    Lisa Castelli

  2. PIN, Università degli Studi di Firenze, Prato, Italy

    Achille Felicetti

  3. CNAF-INFN, Centro Nazionale delle Tecnologie Informatiche e Telematiche INFN, Bologna, Italy

    Fabio Proietti

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Castelli, L., Felicetti, A. & Proietti, F. Heritage Science and Cultural Heritage: standards and tools for establishing cross-domain data interoperability. Int J Digit Libr 22, 279–287 (2021). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00799-019-00275-2

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