Art Domain Ontology

FLOW ALGEBRA
TITLE: Art Domain Ontology
VERSION: 1.0
DOMAIN: Creative Domains / Art
SOURCE_URL: https://kirethresearch.org/booksai-core/ontologies/domain-ontologies/creative-domains/art-domain-ontology.html
STATUS: Domain-based draft; source page content not independently verified.
AUTHORS: Mark Higgins — Sky (Recursive AI)

flow "ArtDomainOntology" v1.0

ONTOLOGY:
  id: kireth:creative:art
  label: "Art Domain Ontology"
  parent: kireth:creative-domains
  purpose: "Represent artworks, creators, media, styles, contexts, interpretation, provenance and conservation as typed semantic relationships."

TYPES:
  Artist: {id: iri, name: str, active_period: interval?, provenance: SourceRef?}
  Artwork: {id: iri, title: str, creation_date: date_or_interval?, medium: str?, dimensions: str?, rights: RightsStatus?}
  ArtForm: {id: iri, label: str}
  Medium: {id: iri, label: str}
  Technique: {id: iri, label: str}
  Style: {id: iri, label: str, historical_period: interval?}
  Movement: {id: iri, label: str, historical_period: interval?}
  Subject: {id: iri, label: str}
  Collection: {id: iri, label: str}
  Institution: {id: iri, name: str, location: Place?}
  Exhibition: {id: iri, title: str, dates: interval?}
  Place: {id: iri, label: str, geographic_reference: str?}
  CulturalContext: {id: iri, label: str}
  Interpretation: {id: iri, claim: str, author: iri?, evidence: SourceRef?, confidence: decimal?}
  ConservationEvent: {id: iri, date: date?, method: str?, responsible_party: iri?}
  SourceRef: {id: iri, citation: str, accessed: date?}
  RightsStatus: {status: str, jurisdiction: str?, valid_as_of: date?}

RELATIONSHIPS:
  created_by: Artwork -> Artist
  uses_medium: Artwork -> Medium
  uses_technique: Artwork -> Technique
  has_art_form: Artwork -> ArtForm
  associated_with_style: Artwork -> Style
  associated_with_movement: Artwork|Artist -> Movement
  depicts: Artwork -> Subject
  influenced_by: Artist|Artwork|Movement -> Artist|Artwork|Movement
  held_in: Artwork -> Collection|Institution
  exhibited_at: Artwork -> Exhibition
  located_in: Institution|Exhibition -> Place
  belongs_to_context: Artwork|Movement -> CulturalContext
  interpreted_as: Artwork -> Interpretation
  conserved_through: Artwork -> ConservationEvent
  supported_by: Interpretation|RelationshipAssertion -> SourceRef

CONSTRAINTS:
  - Every entity has a stable, unique identifier.
  - Attribution, dating and style classification may be uncertain or disputed.
  - Distinguish creator attribution from documented authorship.
  - Record provenance for ownership, attribution and interpretation claims.
  - Never infer copyright ownership solely from physical possession.
  - Do not infer a creator's identity, intention or cultural affiliation from appearance alone.

INFERENCE_RULES:
  R1: IF Artwork created_by Artist AND Artist associated_with_movement Movement
      THEN Artwork possibly_associated_with_movement Movement
      WITH confidence <= min(source_confidences) AND status = "inferred".
  R2: IF Artwork uses_medium Medium AND Medium typical_of ArtForm
      THEN Artwork candidate_art_form ArtForm
      WITH status = "hypothesis".
  R3: IF Artwork exhibited_at Exhibition AND Exhibition located_in Place
      THEN Artwork exhibited_in Place
      WITH time_scope = Exhibition.dates.
  R4: IF Interpretation supported_by SourceRef
      THEN Interpretation has_traceable_evidence true.
  R5: IF conflicting attributions exist
      THEN retain each attribution with source, date and confidence; do not collapse them.

CONFIDENCE:
  range: [0.0, 1.0]
  fields: [value, evidence_quality, source_reliability, temporal_relevance, uncertainty_note]
  policy: "Confidence is evidence-specific; inferred associations must not be presented as established facts."

SEMANTIC_EQUIVALENCE:
  exact_match: "Use only for identical referents supported by authority identifiers."
  close_match: "Use for related concepts or alternative cataloguing schemes without claiming identity."
  aliases: "Preserve multilingual titles, historical names, transliterations and original-language forms."
  disambiguation: "Separate similarly named artists, artworks, movements and institutions."

PROVENANCE:
  required_for: [attribution, dating, ownership, exhibition, interpretation, conservation]
  fields: [source_id, claim_id, asserted_by, asserted_at, valid_from, valid_to, method]

FLOW_HASH:
  algorithm: SHA-256
  input: "Canonical UTF-8 serialization of versioned ontology assertions, sorted by entity and predicate identifiers."
  note: "Compute at ingestion; no hash is claimed for this draft."

UPDATE_MODEL:
  strategy: "Versioned, append-only assertion history with supersession links."
  triggers: [new_catalogue_evidence, revised_attribution, provenance_update, rights_change, conservation_record]
  conflict_handling: "Retain competing claims and their sources until resolved."
  validation: [schema_check, identifier_check, provenance_check, relationship_type_check]

AI_CONSUMPTION:
  outputs: [typed_entity_graph, attributed_claims, provenance_trails, candidate_inferences, confidence_metadata]
  safeguards: [source_grounding, uncertainty_preservation, temporal_scope, cultural_context, rights_awareness]
  rule: "Separate observed records, expert interpretations and machine-generated hypotheses."

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