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A knowledge graph of 1,031 internet aesthetics — motifs, vibes, connections, and cultural context.

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About this project

Aesthetics-KG is a knowledge graph of 1,031 internet aesthetics, capturing motifs, vibes, cultural context, and connections between aesthetic communities. It was built from the Aesthetics Wiki using RML mappings and is served as Linked Open Data via a SPARQL endpoint.

The project was presented at ISWC 2026 as:
Vibes Lore Core: the Aesthetics Knowledge Graph

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Authors

Silvia Cappa 1 0009-0000-5581-2215 silvia.cappa@istc.cnr.it
Anna Sofia Lippolis 1 0000-0002-0266-3452 annasofia.lippolis@istc.cnr.it
Anouk Flinkert 2 0009-0001-6190-8595 anouk.flinkert@studio.unibo.it
Ekaterina Krasnova 2 0009-0005-3588-5093 ekaterina.krasnova2@studio.unibo.it
Shiho Nakamura 2 0009-0001-8829-8643 shiho.nakamura@studio.unibo.it
Andrea Giovanni Nuzzolese 1 0000-0003-2928-9496 andrea.nuzzolese@istc.cnr.it
Aldo Gangemi 2 0000-0001-5568-2684 aldo.gangemi@unibo.it

1 Institute of Cognitive Sciences and Technologies, National Research Council of Italy (ISTC-CNR), Italy
2 University of Bologna, Bologna, Italy

S.C. and A.S.L. contributed equally to this work.

Author contributions CRediT

  • Conceptualization — S.C. and A.S.L.
  • Methodology and ontology development — S.C., A.S.L., A.F., E.K., and S.N.
  • Knowledge graph creation and data curation — A.S.L.
  • Evaluation — S.C., A.S.L., A.F., E.K., and S.N.
  • Website development — A.S.L.
  • Writing — original draft — S.C. and A.S.L.
  • Writing — review and editing — all authors.
  • Supervision — A.G.N. and A.G.

Cite this work

@inproceedings{aestheticskg2026,
  title     = {Vibes Lore Core: the Aesthetics Knowledge Graph},
  author    = {Cappa, Silvia and Lippolis, Anna Sofia and Flinkert, Anouk
               and Krasnova, Ekaterina and Nakamura, Shiho
               and Nuzzolese, Andrea Giovanni and Gangemi, Aldo},
  booktitle = {International Semantic Web Conference (ISWC)},
  year      = {2026}
}

License & data

The knowledge graph is available as Linked Open Data. The underlying textual content is derived from the Aesthetics Wiki (CC BY-SA). SPARQL endpoint: https://semantics.istc.cnr.it/aesthetics-kg/graphdb/repositories/aesthetics

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