ITDT Ontology for architectural archives

Architectural graphical records in Italy are usually catalogued according to one of the standard schemes provided by the ICCU. Those who wish to treat architectural drawings and photographs as archival records or have other project papers usually use the general ISAD standard, or starting from 2011, the Records in Contexts archival standard. RiC allows archivists to describe records not only as physical entities, but also as an intellectual works, and provides means to associate them with agents, places and events.

ITDT is an extension of RiC-O, the ontology formalization of RiC, for the description of historical architectural archives. It defines classes and properties that allow records to be associated with the architectural projects, seen as a creative process, particular documentary types, project scales and functions of the associated architectural works. 

ITDT considers project  as a polysemic term, that can identify a collection of documents, a process, and a final result of that process and provide means to describe all of them.

For more see: 

Daria Mikhaylova, Daniele Metilli. 2023. Extending RiC-O to Model Historical Architectural Archives: The ITDT Ontology. Journal on Computing and Cultural Heritage