Dependency modelling for inconsistency management in Digital Preservation – The PERICLES approach

• Published in: Information systems frontiers 2018-02, Vol.20 (1), p.7-19
• Main Authors: Lagos, Nikolaos, Riga, Marina, Mitzias, Panagiotis, Vion-Dury, Jean-Yves, Kontopoulos, Efstratios, Waddington, Simon, Laurenson, Pip, Meditskos, Georgios, Kompatsiaris, Ioannis
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Subjects: Business and Management; Control; Cultural heritage; Cultural resources; Digital preservation; Information systems; Interoperability; IT in Business; Management of Computing and Information Systems; Modelling; Operations Research/Decision Theory; Preservation; Representations; Semantic web; Systems Theory
• ISSN: 1387-3326; 1572-9419
• DOI: 10.1007/s10796-016-9709-z

The rise of the Semantic Web has provided cultural heritage researchers and practitioners with several tools for providing semantically rich representations and interoperability of cultural heritage collections. Although indeed offering a lot of advantages, these tools, which come mostly in the form of ontologies and related vocabularies, do not provide a conceptual model for capturing contextual and environmental dependencies, contributing to long-term digital preservation. This paper presents one of the key outcomes of the PERICLES FP7 project, the Linked Resource Model, for modelling dependencies as a set of evolving linked resources. The adoption of the proposed model and the consistency of its representation are evaluated via a specific instantiation involving the domain of digital video art.