ISO/DIS 21127, A reference ontology for the interchange of cultural heritage information
This draft ISO standard is the culmination of more than a decade of standards development work by the ICOM-CIDOC (International Council of Museums, International Committee for Documentation). The primary purpose of this standard is to offer a conceptual basis for the integration, mediation, and exchange of information between cultural heritage organizations such as museums, libraries, and archives. The specific aims of the ontology, consisting of 81 classes and 160 unique properties, are to
- serve as a common language for domain experts and IT developers when formulating requirements,
- serve as a formal language for the identification of common information contents in different data formats; in particular to support the implementation of automatic data transformation algorithms from local to global data structures without loss of meaning. These transformation algorithms are useful for data exchange, data migration from legacy systems, data information integration, and mediation of heterogeneous sources,
- support associative queries against integrated resources by providing a global model of the basic classes and their associations to formulate such queries, and
- provide developers of information systems with a guide to good practice in conceptual modeling.
Please contact Yuji Tosaka (tosaka@tcnj.edu) if you are interested in reviewing the draft standard to provide comment. A full copy of the document is available upon request.
Feedback is requested by Friday, February 24, 2023.
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Catherine Smith
Head of Metadata and Archival Processing
University of Alabama
She/Her/Hers
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