Authors:
Alessandro Cosentino
1
;
Webert Araújo
2
and
Inês Koch
3
Affiliations:
1
Faculty of Informatics, Università della Svizzera Italiana, Lugano, Switzerland
;
2
Escola de Ciência da Informação, Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais, Belo Horizonte, Brazil
;
3
Faculty of Engineering of the University of Porto and INESC TEC, Porto, Portugal
Keyword(s):
Digital Archive, Cinematic Heritage, Ontology Engineering, Linked Open Data (LOD).
Abstract:
The Locarno Film Festival (LFF) archives represent a valuable collection of cinematic history, providing essential resources for research, education, and the promotion of international film culture. To ensure these resources are easily accessible, it is crucial to develop advanced methods for managing and linking the information they contain. This work focuses on creating a shared way for organizing information, transforming the LFF archives into dynamic, interconnected resources. This transformation is essential for preserving cinematic heritage, improving discoverability, promoting digital transformation, and efficiently managing archives. Using an interdisciplinary approach, we developed the OntoFest following the Linked Open Terms (LOT) Methodology. Significant outcomes of this project include the successful reuse of existing ontologies to manage heterogeneous information, which has improved our ability to understand and retrieve relevant data. This work demonstrates the potentia
l of digital archives in the cinematic field and provides a foundation for future initiatives in digitizing cinematic heritage archives. OntoFest not only contributes to preserving the cinematic cultural heritage of the LFF but also lays the groundwork for new research and creative applications in the digital transformation of film festival archives.
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