@article{14771, keywords = {CIDOC-CRM, cultural heritage, Iconography, intangible heritage, Ontology, Semantics}, author = {N. Carboni and L. y}, title = {Towards a conceptual foundation for documenting tangible and intangible elements of a cultural object}, abstract = {This article analyses the concept of intangible/tangible heritage from a documentation perspective, investigating the theoretical framework developed within the various branches of the cultural heritage studies and providing a clear perspective, as well as an alignment, of the various approaches and requirements. The focus provided highlights the prospect of developing a conceptual foundation that would cover the documentation of the tangible and intangible elements of a cultural object. The theoretical assumptions are then analysed from an ontological perspective, and tested using CIDOC-CRM, developing a series of representative mappings, including information about the material, spatial and symbolic elements of a scene in a narrative cycle painted in the narthex of a byzantine church in Cyprus. The result is a formalisation of a set of requirements and a documentation paradigm which help record the tangible and intangible elements of an heritage asset.}, volume = {3}, number = {4}, pages = {108-116}, issn = {22120548 (ISSN)}, url = {https://www.scopus.com/inward/record.uri?eid=2-s2.0-85004028168&doi=10.1016%2fj.daach.2016.11.001&partnerID=40&md5=643d0d0d98062b86160701cd83889b4b}, doi = {10.1016/j.daach.2016.11.001}, note = {Publisher: Elsevier Ltd}, }