In a rapidly evolving landscape of semantic artefacts and interoperable resources, keeping pace with the expanding ecosystem of ontologies, thesauri, metadata standards, and application profiles is essential for researchers working in the Heritage domain.
The Heritage – Semantic Tools and Interoperability Survey (H-SeTIS) serves as a comprehensive hub designed to systematically catalogue, describe, and connect semantic and interoperable resources relevant to Heritage studies. Developed as part of the NextGenerationEU H2IOSC project by the ISPC-CNR unit in Milan, affiliated with E-RIHS.it, H-SeTIS now hosts more than 250 records covering ontologies, thesauri, metadata standards, and application profiles tailored to—or widely used in—the Heritage sector. Developed in alignment with FAIR principles, H-SeTIS provides API access to its full dataset, enabling seamless integration and reuse. The platform also features a curated bibliography—now comprising more than 900 references—maintained through a dedicated Zotero library, which brings together publications related to the surveyed semantic artefacts as well as broader references in semantic web development.
H-SeTIS is an output of the H2IOSC – Humanities and Cultural Heritage Italian Open Science Cloud project, developed within WP4 “RIs Nodes and Resources Interoperability”, Activity 4.10 “Resources interoperability: DIGILAB resources (E-RIHS)”. The resource is developed and actively maintained by Erica Scarpa and Riccardo Valente (CNR-ISPC), under the coordination of Irene Rossi (CNR-ISPC).