Integrating, Indexing and Querying the Tangible and Intangible Cultural Heritage Available Online: The QueryLab Portal

Cultural heritage inventories have been created to collect and preserve the culture allow participation of stakeholders communities, promoting disseminating their knowledges. There are two types inventories: those who give data access via web services or open data, others which closed external can be visited only through dedicated sites, generating silo problems. The integration harvested from different archives enables compare cultures traditions places opposite sides world, showing how people more in common than expected. purpose developed portal is provide query tools managing provided by cultural databases a transparent way, allowing user make single obtain results all considered at same time. Moreover, with introduction ICH-Light model, specifically studied for mapping intangible heritage, this domain also harvested, indexed integrated into portal, creation an environment where traditions, knowledges, rituals festive events found searched together.