Rapid Prototyping a Semantic Web Application for Cultural Heritage: The Case of MANTIC

Abstract

MANTIC is a Web application that integrates heterogenous and legacy data about the archeology of Milan (Italy); the application combines semantic Web and mashup technologies. Semantic Web models and technologies supports model-driven and standard-compliant data integration on the Web; the mashup approach supports a spatial and temporal aware form of information presentation. MANTIC shows that model-driven information integration applications for cultural heritage can be fast prototyped with limited deployment effort by combining semantic and mashup technologies. Instead, higher-level modeling aspects need a deep analysis and require domain expertise.