The PCI Ontology

TL;DR

This paper introduces the PCI Ontology, a structured framework designed to describe and index audiovisual content related to the cultural heritage of minorities and indigenous peoples.

Contribution

It presents a novel ontology specifically tailored for cultural heritage resources of minorities and indigenous groups, facilitating better organization and retrieval.

Findings

Ontology effectively models cultural heritage content

Improves indexing and retrieval of audiovisual resources

Supports preservation of minority and indigenous cultures

Abstract

In this paper, an ontology for the description and indexing of the contents of audiovisual resources will be presented. The concerned domain of reference (or: knowledge domain) is the cultural heritage of minorities and indigenous people, hence the name or title of this ontology, PCI ontology (standing for the French "Patrimoine Culturel de Minorit\'es et Peuples Indig\`enes").