Collections revisited from the perspective of historical testimonies Online publication date: Tue, 01-Oct-2019
by Annamaria Goy; Diego Magro
International Journal of Metadata, Semantics and Ontologies (IJMSO), Vol. 13, No. 4, 2019
Abstract: This paper presents the results of an ontological analysis of collective entities, as an essential step towards the definition of a rich semantic model underlying ontology-driven applications in the historical and cultural heritage domains. The major contributions of our proposal are the following: (a) An explicit distinction of contingent and necessary features, that led us to formalise our ontology by means of modal logics. (b) A description of collective entities from a diachronic perspective (thus including singletons and empty collections). (c) An analysis of the inferences enabled by the characterisation of collective entities and by the inclusion relationships. (d) A representation of the inclusion relationships that does not imply existential dependence. (e) A distinction between emerging and created collective entities. In this paper, we present an in-depth ontological analysis of these aspects and provide a sound formalisation for it.
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