The Shape of a Benedictine Monastery: The SaintGall Ontology (Extended Version)
Claudia Cantale, Domenico Cantone, Manuela Lupica Rinato, Marianna Nicolosi-Asmundo, Daniele Francesco Santamaria
arXiv:1709.02618v63 citations
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This work provides a digital representation for historians and cultural heritage researchers, but it is incremental as it applies existing ontology methods to a specific historical dataset.
The authors developed an OWL 2 ontology to represent the Saint Gall plan, an ancient document describing an ideal Benedictine monastic complex, enabling formal modeling of its architectural and historical details.
We present an OWL 2 ontology representing the Saint Gall plan, one of the most ancient documents arrived intact to us, which describes the ideal model of a Benedictine monastic complex that inspired the design of many European monasteries.