Semantic Based Querying and Retrieving Information for Artistic Expressions: the Art-e-fact Ontology

New methodologies and approaches are required nowadays in order to facilitate non-technically trained users to access, browse and retrieve content from relational databases. This paper presents the methodology developed for the scope, definition, real implementation and visualization of a domain ontology for content generation based on cultural databases. This ontology has been implemented within the art-E-fact project to represent conceptually and interconnect data and the associated knowledge stored in distributed cultural heritage databases, so that description, exchange and sharing of this multimedia added-value content can be used in the creation of artistic expressions using the latest developments in the Information and Communication Technologies.