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Information and Documentation Perspective to Intangible Cultural Heritage in the Context of Digital Humanities Research
Information and Documentation Perspective to Intangible Cultural Heritage in the Context of Digital Humanities Research

Author(s): Goran Zlodi
Subject(s): Museology & Heritage Studies, Information Architecture, Electronic information storage and retrieval
Published by: Sveučilište u Zagrebu, Filozofski fakultet
Keywords: intangible cultural heritage; digital humanities; data standards; conceptual reference models; linked open data; documentation; information;

Summary/Abstract: This paper presents the critical role of digital humanities methods in safeguarding, research, and revitalisation of intangible cultural heritage. The study explores digitisation methods through a documentation and data management perspective, advocating for data standards that facilitate data interoperability at structure, content, value, and encoding levels. This paper critically analyses existing data standards and conceptual reference models, considering their potential and limitations for documenting and representing intangible cultural heritage. The typology of entities and processes related to intangible cultural heritage is presented and elaborated. Mapping identified entities and processes to individual classes in the CIDOC-CRM model is discussed to support the publication of data and semantic interoperability in the Semantic Web context. This paper is open access and may be further distributed in accordance with the provisions of the CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 HR licence.

  • Issue Year: 2023
  • Issue No: 35
  • Page Range: 115-148
  • Page Count: 34
  • Language: English
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