Cultural heritage on the semantic web: from representation to fruition

The dissertation investigates a set of related key elements that take part in the deployment of Semantic Web systems for cultural heritage. The overview of the new directions in the development of the Web according to the perspectives of the Web 2.0 and Web 3.0 and the analysis of the current scenario of Semantic Web applications for cultural heritage and archaeology is provided, and a proposal of a new research perspective based on an interdisciplinary approach is introduced. Central in this research are the evaluation of the CIDOC CRM ISO standard and the proposal of a model and method that aim at improving the retrieval of relevant information in Semantic Web systems according to fuzzy chronological elements. A case study for the experimentation and evaluation of the research proposal as well as the development of a demo semantic portal for the case study are then introduced and the results obtained are discussed. Concluding remarks and directions for future work end the dissertation.