Formalising cultural heritage metadata with a multidisciplinary approach: enriching the CHANGES workflow for enhancing a museum collection about ceramics through a FAIR digitisation process
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2025
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The Eurographics Association
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The domain of Galleries, Libraries, Archives and Museums is naturally rich in unstructured and semi-structured data, often collected favouring field-specific informative content to data Findability, Accessibility, Interoperability and Reusability. Intending to define a balanced pipeline for small-scale museums' metadata dissemination, this paper introduces Digital Damaged Ceramics, a multidisciplinary project aimed at leveraging digital tools and Open Science-oriented pipelines to formalise domain-specific knowledge about two collections of ceramic specimens, held by the Museo Internazionale delle Ceramiche in Faenza and the Musée National céramique de Sèvres. With a minimal setting of resources, the project could benefit from multidisciplinary solutions tailored within a limited team of researchers with complementary expertise covering digital skills and domain-specific knowledge, and from the state-of-the-art digitisation workflow developed by CHANGES project's Spoke 4, dedicated to Virtual technologies for museums and art Collections, within the framework of the National Recovery and Resilience Plan. The first part of the proposed methodology is experimental, meant to address and adequately visualise aspects specifically concerning the study of damaged ceramics. In the spirit of the best Open Science practices, the second phase consists of the re-adoption of a consolidated workflow, covering both metadata management and 3D digitisation process. All the research products are available online on a dedicated website, including: a data visualisation landing page, a catalogue for each of the two collections, an interface for semantically querying the dataset with SPARQL, a page for exposing 3D models, another one for the datasets, and a documentation.
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CCS Concepts: Hardware → Artec Scanner Software and its engineering → Artec Studio; Blender; Google Sheets; Chart.js; Google Charts; Bootstrap; Morph-KGC Information systems → Semantic web technologies; RDF Mapping Language; Chad-AP; Cloud spreadsheets Computing methodologies → Data visualization; Knowledge representation.
@inproceedings{10.2312:dh.20253375,
booktitle = {Digital Heritage},
editor = {Campana, Stefano and Ferdani, Daniele and Graf, Holger and Guidi, Gabriele and Hegarty, Zackary and Pescarin, Sofia and Remondino, Fabio},
title = {{Formalising cultural heritage metadata with a multidisciplinary approach: enriching the CHANGES workflow for enhancing a museum collection about ceramics through a FAIR digitisation process}},
author = {Moretti, Arianna and Daste, Madeleine},
year = {2025},
publisher = {The Eurographics Association},
ISBN = {978-3-03868-277-6},
DOI = {10.2312/dh.20253375}
}