Introduction
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Historical research on exhibitions requires the mobilization and exploitation of extensive archival documentation to provide information on the history of collection hangings in art museums. While the reconstruction of exhibition displays is fraught with practical and methodological difficulties, due in particular to the partiality of the documentation preserved and the need to deal with heterogeneous sources of information (exhibition views, loan lists, exhibition room plans, expographic or scenographic projects), this process can greatly benefit from a digital approach that takes advantage of three-dimensional modeling.
The Display ontology defines a set of classes and properties for describing exhibitions. It adopts an expographic perspective based on the concept of exhibit, mobilizing mainly a spatial logic that implies being able to define topological relationships between exhibit and exhibition spaces.
This ontology is developed at the Ouvroir laboratory within the partnership New Uses of Collections in Art Museums (2021-2028).