# Marriage is a Peach and a Chalice: Modelling Cultural Symbolism on the SemanticWeb

arXiv: https://arxiv.org/abs/2111.02123 · HTML: https://mlsanity.com/paper/2111.02123/

## Key facts

- Cited by 1 papers in the map (data through 14 Oct 2026).
- Builds on 4 of its 33 references that are in the map.
- First posted on arXiv 3 Nov 2021.

## Builds on (most cited first, 4 of 4)

- [ArCo: the Italian Cultural Heritage Knowledge Graph](https://mlsanity.com/paper/1905.02840/) (2019)
- [Best Practices for Implementing FAIR Vocabularies and Ontologies on the Web](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2003.13084/) (2020)
- [Key Choices in the Design of Simple Knowledge Organization System (SKOS)](https://mlsanity.com/paper/1302.1224/) (2013)
- [Modelling Art Interpretation and Meaning. A Data Model for Describing Iconology and Iconography](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2106.12967/) (2021)

## Built on by (most cited first, 1 of 1)

- [IICONGRAPH: improved Iconographic and Iconological Statements in Knowledge Graphs](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2402.00048/) (2024)

## Abstract (arXiv)

In this work, we fill the gap in the Semantic Web in the context of Cultural Symbolism. Building upon earlier work in, we introduce the Simulation Ontology, an ontology that models the background knowledge of symbolic meanings, developed by combining the concepts taken from the authoritative theory of Simulacra and Simulations of Jean Baudrillard with symbolic structures and content taken from "Symbolism: a Comprehensive Dictionary" by Steven Olderr. We re-engineered the symbolic knowledge already present in heterogeneous resources by converting it into our ontology schema to create HyperReal, the first knowledge graph completely dedicated to cultural symbolism. A first experiment run on the knowledge graph is presented to show the potential of quantitative research on symbolism.