The Brancacci Chapel from the Quattrocento to the semantic web

An ontology-assisted case study of cultural data management and site reconstruction

Bibliographic Data

ID4680588
AuthorsManuele Veggi (0000-0002-5958-2100), Ivana Cerato (0000-0002-4490-5827)
Year2025
Volume37
Pagese00409
Publication date2025-06-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueDigital Applications in Archaeology and Cultural Heritage (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 2212-0548
PublisherElsevier BV (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1016/j.daach.2025.e00409
OpenAlexW4409017436
LanguageEN
References cited18

This study proposes an ontological model for cultural heterogeneous data and cultural site reconstructions. It is based on the concept of interpretative unit, which extends the semantics of stratigraphic units also to non-archaeological contexts. The ontology is named after the case study of this research, the Brancacci Chapel in Florence. Indeed, after a state of the art overview of the development methodology and the description of the most relevant entities, a first test case is proposed. An entry of the catalogue of a recent exhibition on Masolino, a 15th century painter who worked at the decoration of the chapel, has been serialised as Turtle file and the se- mantics of knowledge graph has been assessed via competency questions. The positive results encourage the deepening of this line of research in the direction of connecting linked data with nodes in 3D models, as well as their visualisation and communication to non-specialist audiences

Art · Art history · Chapel · Epistemology · Ontology · Semantic Web · The Internet · Web site · World Wide Web · Archaeological Research and Protection · Computer Science · Conservation Techniques and Studies · Engineering · Image Processing and 3D Reconstruction · Philosophy

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