Francesca Tomasi Silvio Peroni Marilena Daquino 2020-03-31 The Historical Context Ontology (HiCO) is an OWL 2 DL ontology developed for representing the context of a claim. In particular, it addresses features characterising hermeneutical activities performed by scholars while generating new information (i.e. an interpretation act). It allows to represent and reason on reliability of argumentations around attributions, by evaluating features such as motivations, types of cited sources or criteria, dates, relations with other claims (e.g. agreement/disagreement). Specifically, historical context regards events and situations that are part of the life-cycle of cultural heritage objects. For instance, "being created by somebody", or "being created at a certain time", are events related to an artefact that are claimed by an agent at a certain time, motivated with usage of primary sources, and recorded in a secondary source (e.g. a cataloguing record). HiCO extends the PROV Ontology (http://www.w3.org/ns/prov) with terms for describing aspects of the hermeneutical activity, and reuses existing ontologies, such as CiTO Ontology (http://purl.org/spar/cito/) for linking attributions to related sources. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/legalcode The Historical Context Ontology (HiCO) hico https://w3id.org/hico/ 2.0 /InterpretationAct The hermeneutical activity performed by an agent in order to generate new information (e.g. an artwork attribution). /InterpretationAct /InterpretationAct Interpretation Act /InterpretationCriterion The criterion or type of source used by an agent to support an interpretation act, such as bibliography, verbal communication, etc. /InterpretationCriterion /InterpretationCriterion Interpretation Criterion /InterpretationType An arbitrary definition of the interpretation act, such as artowork attribution or date attribution. /InterpretationType /InterpretationType Interpretation Type /hasInterpretationCriterion A property relating an interpretation act to a criterion or type of source used to support the claim. /hasInterpretationCriterion /hasInterpretationCriterion has interpretation criterion /hasInterpretationType A property relating an interpretation act to an individual defining an arbitrary classification of the interpretation. /hasInterpretationType /hasInterpretationType has interpretation type /isExtractedFrom A property relating an interpretation act to the source where from the claim has been extracted. /isExtractedFrom /isExtractedFrom is extracted from cito:agreesWith http://purl.org/spar/cito cito:agreesWith agrees with cito:citesAsEvidence http://purl.org/spar/cito cito:citesAsEvidence cites as evidence cito:disagreesWith http://purl.org/spar/cito cito:disagreesWith disagrees with cito:refutes http://purl.org/spar/cito cito:refutes refutes frbr:Expression http://purl.org/vocab/frbr/core frbr:Expression Expression http://www.w3.org/TR/prov-o/#wasGeneratedBy A property relating statements to an interpretation act. http://www.w3.org/TR/prov-o/#wasGeneratedBy http://www.w3.org/ns/prov http://www.w3.org/TR/prov-o/#wasGeneratedBy was generated by prov:Activity http://www.w3.org/ns/prov prov:Activity Activity prov:startedAtTime A property relating an interpretation act to the time that triggered the activity. prov:startedAtTime http://www.w3.org/ns/prov prov:startedAtTime started at time prov:wasInfluencedBy http://www.w3.org/ns/prov prov:wasInfluencedBy was influenced by