Rappresentare i contesti nella descrizione delle risorse culturali: il Portal Entity Builder di MetaFAD

The Portal Entity Builder (PEB) is a web application linked to MetaFAD, an open-source platform for the description and cataloguing of archival, bibliographic and historical and artistic heritage, equipped with a Digital Asset Manager for the management, use and display of digital objects. The PEB module was created by the Central Institute for Archives (ICAR) as an ontology editing tool implemented in MetaFAD in order to build an OWL representation of the different contexts that qualify the reference knowledge domain for the cultural resources that are described and managed by the platform. This paper briefly recalls the scenario that influenced the ICAR strategies and more analytically describes the process of making the tool. It also describes the main features of the ontology editor applied to a use case.