ONTOLOGICAL PRESENTATION OF EAST-CHRISTIAN ICONOGRAPHICAL ART DOMAIN∗

Abstract. In the recent years the East-Christian iconographical art works have been digitized providing a large volume of data. The need for effective classification, indexing and retrieval of iconography repositories was the mo-tivation of the design and development of a systemized ontological structure for description of iconographical art objects. This paper presents the ontol-ogy of the East-Christian iconographical art, developed to provide content annotation in the Virtual encyclopedia of Bulgarian iconography multime-dia digital library. The ontology’s main classes, relations, facts, rules, and problems appearing during the design and development are described. The paper also presents an application of the ontology for learning analysis on an iconography domain implemented during the SINUS project “Semanti