Pattern-based design applied to cultural heritage knowledge graphs

Ontology Design Patterns (ODPs) have become an established and recognised practice for guaranteeing good quality ontology engineering. There are several ODP repositories where ODPs shared as well design methodologies recommending their reuse. Performing rigorous testing is recommended supporting maintenance validating the resulting resource against its motivating requirements. Nevertheless, it less than straightforward to find guidelines on how apply such developing domain-specific knowledge graphs. ArCo graph of Italian Cultural Heritage has been developed by using eXtreme (XD), ODP- test-driven methodology. During development, XD adapted need CH domain e.g. gathering requirements from open, diverse community consumers, a new defined many specialised address specific This paper presents describes development validation graph, also detailing (intellectual) process implemented matching encountered modelling problems ODPs. Relevant contributions include novel web tool unit-testing graphs, evaluation ArCo, discussion methodological lessons learned during development.