The Project Zeri Photo Archive: Towards a Model for Defining Authoritative Authorship Attributions.

The global project of data conversion of the notable Italian ‘Zeri Photo Archive’ into a Linked and Open Dataset primarily regarded the analysis of the description model of the available records, so as to define a collection of suitable ontologies to describe such a complex domain. Indeed, the uniqueness of the Zeri collection, which includes about 290,000 photographs of works of art and monuments, lies in the rich documentation of the described artefacts, mostly related to provenance, attributions, restoration events and their connections to the collection of 46,000 books and 37,000 auction catalogues. The full project entails, together with the ontological modeling, the production of the RDF dataset, the creation of proper links to the LOD cloud, and the definition of the user interface for browsing the dataset.