Metadata and Ontology Design for Protection and Utilization of Great Sites

Abstract

In the process of rapid urbanization in China, the protection and utilization of great sites are facing unprecedented pressure. The effective knowledge organization of great sites is a prerequisite for their protection and utilization. Ontology provides realization paths for organizing knowledge of great sites. In this paper, firstly, CIDOC- CRM and Time ontology are reused to build the top-level ontology with the results of user interviews. Secondly, top-down concept extraction and bottom-up concept expansion are adopted to gain the knowledge concepts and instances of great sites. Finally, data properties and object properties are defined. The designed ontology can provide the knowledge modeling and representation of great sites, laying the foundation for knowledge sharing.