Extending RiC-O to Model Historical Architectural Archives: The ITDT Ontology

Historical architectural archives enjoy attention from diverse audiences, acting as a primary source of information for architects, historians, public authorities, and common citizens alike. In Italy, the interest in has grown slowly but steadily last 20 years. However, do not generally follow trend museums galleries publishing digitized materials providing standard metadata individual records. The that is available online usually includes only an archival finding aid, instead about records, or fully digital versions While cataloguing standards descriptions records have existed at least since 1980s, rise Linked Open Data framework cultural heritage data allowed archivists to enhance these with richer contextual links external knowledge bases. this paper we present ITDT ontology, extension Records Contexts Ontology facilitates representation context related projects, its process, participating entities. We discuss application ontology project files Italian architect engineer Dino Tamburini (1924–2011), creation archive offering multiple perspectives over