Ontological Approaches to Information Description and Extraction in the Cultural Heritage Domain

In this paper, we describe an approach to information description and extraction from full-text marked-up documents through ontological support. We introduce two ontologies developed by our research group: PRoles for representing political roles of agents in an event-centric perspective and HiCo for managing interpretation acts as individual hermeneutical approaches to the document content. A special attention is given to the concept of ‘provenance’ as a way for creating authoritative assertions