Ontological Representation of Narrative Places for Cinema Archives

Narrative places are places that have a role in a narrative. They can be real or imaginary, requiring a credible representation in visual media. Despite their relevance, an effective archive of the representations of narrative places, which could impact location management and historical archives, is currently missing in cinema databases. The paper describes an ontological approach to the modeling and archiving of narrative places, connected to the actual locations and the media production data. We address the basics of ontological modelling, their encoding, and its ongoing application in a project about an archive of silent movies that document the transformation of the urban landscape of the first decades of the twentieth century.