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The aim is to enhance cross-domain discovery of cultural heritage objects by creating a reusable ontology alignment layer.

May 13, 20260 citationsOpen Access

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Navigating Babel: A Mid-Level Ontology for Cross-Domain Cultural Heritage Discovery

MTMary Ann Tan

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The aim is to enhance cross-domain discovery of cultural heritage objects by creating a reusable ontology alignment layer.
Proposed the Mid-level Ontology for Cross-domain Cultural Heritage Objects (MOCHO) as a structural solution.
Identified three structural parallels within existing frameworks.
Analyzed 115,000 records to evaluate the heterogeneity addressed by MOCHO.
MOCHO effectively aligns the Europeana Data Model with various GLAM ontologies, facilitating improved search and discovery.
Quantitative analysis demonstrated reduced heterogeneity in cultural heritage records post-implementation of MOCHO.

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.

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synapsesocial.com/papers/6a0414f679e20c90b4444cee https://doi.org/https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.20119806

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