Basing on the recent items we chose we mostly had to identify by ourselves the ontologies that could best fit the entities we were dealing with. Excluding the Tora Prison and the Textual documents by Human Rights Watch, which were already described by gndo and MODS Record respectively, we studied the various domain addressed specifically by the ontologies and we decided to describe them in this way:
LIDO was used to gather all the information about the new artworks we had to describe, because it was created for supporting the full range of descriptive information about art and museum objects.
MODS Record is an XML markup for metadata born from existing MARC 21 records and original resource description and it was very useful for treating the textual items.
Music Ontology was the ontology choosen to represent the information about the song “For Zaki”, in general it provides a model for publishing structured music-related data.
PREMIS was useful for the description of the website, because it is, by definition, a “Data dictionary, supporting XML schemas for core preservation metadata needed to support the long-term preservation of digital materials.”
Schema.org was pivotal in our description process because it offers a wide variety of properties and predicates for each domain.
| Name | Item | Provider | Type of Provider | Country | Standard |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| European Parliament Resolution of 18/12/2020 | European law | European Parliament | EU Institutions | France and Belgium (meeting places) | MODS Record |
| For Zaky | Song | Spotify | Public Company | Swedish | Music Ontology |
| Freedom for Patrick Zaky | Illustration | Channeldraw.org | Website | Italy | LIDO |
| Gemma Master | Website | University of Granade | University | Spain | PREMIS |
| L'Abbraccio | Murales | Laika | Street Artist Website | Italy | LIDO |
| L'Egitto dei militari a un anno dall'incarcerazione di Patrick Zaki | Podcast | Raiplay Radio | National Radio | Italy | Schema.org |
| Scholars at Risk Letter | Letter | Scholars at Risk | Academic institutions Network | Italy | MODS Record |
| Tora Prison | Place | Deutsche National Bibliothek | National Library | Germany | gndo |
| "We do unreasonable things here": torture and national security in al-Sisi's Egypt | Article | Human Rights Watch | Non-governmental Organization | United States (N.Y.) | MODS Record |
| "We Are in Tombs" : Abuses in Egypt's Scorpion Prison | Report | Human Rights Watch | Non-governmental Organization | United States (N.Y.) | MODS Record |