TRAIL 4.2: Implementing mapping processes for vocabularies related to site and object protection

Different institutions working in domain-specific contexts document how sites and ob-jects are conserved, preserved, restored and reconstructed in different ways. There-fore, different domain-specific authority files and community-driven vocabularies exist, are limited to the respective disciplines and reflect the specific logics of the activities. To promote synergies and linkages between these stakeholders, we need cross-disci-plinary semantic alignment of these vocabularies. This addresses several phases of the research data cycle: capturing, inventorying, digitising, and providing, sharing and integrating related (meta)data for research purposes. The aim of the TRAIL is to link terms in individual isolated systems by means of mapping relations in order to create a network of authority files and community-driven vocabularies from the fields of resto-ration and conservation, building research, architectural history and heritage manage-ment. This enables a multi-perspective overview of the biographies of (digitised) ob-jects and makes it possible to relate objects in digital collections to each other. This will be done using two Software Application Services (SAS), DANTE and Cocoda. This will result in semantically aligned vocabularies, best practice white papers and OWL files defining the used relations.