ISPRS-Archives The International Archives of the Photogrammetry, Remote Sensing and Spatial Information Sciences ISPRS-Archives Int. Arch. Photogramm. Remote Sens. Spatial Inf. Sci. 2194-9034 Copernicus Publications Göttingen, Germany 10.5194/isprs-archives-XLII-2-W10-31-2019 ONTOLOGY-BASED WEB TOOLS FOR RETRIEVING PHOTOGRAMMETRIC CULTURAL HERITAGE MODELS Ben Ellefi M. 1 Drap P. 1 Papini O. 1 Merad D. 1 Royer J. P. 1 Nawaf M. M. 1 Nocerino E. https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3511-4967 1 Hyttinen K. 2 Sourisseau J. C. 3 Gambin T. 4 Castro F. 5 Aix Marseille University, CNRS, ENSAM, Université De Toulon, LIS UMR 7020, 13397 Marseille, France University of Dundee, Perth Rd, Dundee, Scotland UK Aix Marseille University, CNRS, Ministère de la Culture et de la Communication, CCJ UMR 7299, 13094 Aix En Provence, France Archaeology Centre, University of Malta, Msida MSD 2080, Malta Ship Reconstruction Laboratory 4352 TAMU, Texas A & M University, College Station, Texas 77843, USA 17 04 2019 XLII-2/W10 31 38 Copyright: © 2019 M. Ben Ellefi et al. 2019 This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License. To view a copy of this licence, visit https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ This article is available from https://isprs-archives.copernicus.org/articles/XLII-2-W10/31/2019/isprs-archives-XLII-2-W10-31-2019.html The full text article is available as a PDF file from https://isprs-archives.copernicus.org/articles/XLII-2-W10/31/2019/isprs-archives-XLII-2-W10-31-2019.pdf

A key challenge in cultural heritage (CH) sites visualization is to provide models and tools that effectively integrate the content of a CH data with domain-specific knowledge so that the users can query, interpret and consume the visualized information. Moreover, it is important that the intelligent visualization systems are interoperable in the semantic web environment and thus, capable of establishing a methodology to acquire, integrate, analyze, generate and share numeric contents and associated knowledge in human and machine-readable Web. In this paper, we present a model, a methodology and a software Web-tools that support the coupling of the 2D/3D Web representation with the knowledge graph database of <i>Xlendi</i> shipwreck. The Web visualization tools and the knowledge-based techniques are married into a photogrammetry driven ontological model while at the same time, user-friendly web tools for querying and semantic consumption of the shipwreck information are introduced.