Proposal for a Cultural Heritage Application Schema within (original) (raw)

Since Cultural Heritage data are included in the theme 9 of the INSPIRE Annex I (Protected Sites), guaranteeing their interoperability is a priority. The Protected Sites Data Specification deals with this subject, although it is more oriented towards environmental data. Therefore we assumed that the implementation of the Protected Sites document in the Spanish case was a good chance to adapt the generic model to the specificity of Cultural Heritage data. Maintenance of this data in Spain is a complex matter, for there are 17 different regional administrations competent on the subject, responsible of data generation, along with other public administrations at a local, regional, national, European and worldwide level, as well as research organizations, universities and companies that also provide data; a circumstance that really calls for interoperability awareness. This data model also tries to solve such a situation for georeferenced heritage data under the INSPIRE Directive. 1.1 Interoperability This crucial issue is addressed in two ways: interoperability with INSPIRE spatial data and interoperability among heritage data. The first one is accomplished by the building of the data model as an application schema that develops the Protected Sites Data Specification, filling core INSPIRE documents and ISO 19100 series standards. The main INSPIRE documents that shape the model are the specification on Protected Sites itself, the Generic Conceptual Model and the Methodology for the development of data