ARIADNE: A Research Infrastructure for Archaeology.
Meghini, C.; Scopigno, R.; Richards, J.; Wright, H.; Geser, G.; Cuy, S.; Fihn, J.; Fanini, B.; Hollander, H.; Niccolucci, F.; Felicetti, A.; Ronzino, P.; Nurra, F.; Papatheodorou, C.; Gavrilis, D.; Theodoridou, M.; Doerr, M.; Tudhope, D.; Binding, C.; and Vlachidis, A.
Journal on Computing and Cultural Heritage, 10(3): 1-27. 8 2017.
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Scripta manent: a CIDOC CRM semiotic reading of ancient texts.
Felicetti, A.; and Murano, F.
International Journal on Digital Libraries, 18(4): 263-270. 11 2017.
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Mapping the ARIADNE catalogue data model to CIDOC CRM: Bridging resource discovery and item-level access.
Aloia, N.; Debole, F.; Felicetti, A.; Galluccio, I.; and Theodoridou, M.
SCIRES-IT, 7(1): 1-8. 2017.
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ARIADNE is a European project aiming to integrate existing archaeological research infrastructures, services and distributed datasets, and to develop new technologies and tools to improve archaeological research methodology. The ARIADNE registry contains information about resources available among the various partners of the project and the metadata repository, which contains item level information of these resources. In order to provide an advanced discovery mechanism combining both item level and registry level information we propose a mapping from the ARIADNE Catalogue Data Model, the model of the ARIADNE registry, to the CIDOC CRM, the underlying model of the metadata repository. The paper will present the requirements that led to the choice of different models for the registry and the metadata repository, will elaborate on the mapping, and will propose an integrated interface for information discovery and presentation.
Enabling European Archaeological Research: The ARIADNE E-Infrastructure.
Aloia, N.; Binding, C.; Cuy, S.; Doerr, M.; Fanini, B.; Felicetti, A.; Fihn, J.; Gavrilis, D.; Geser, G.; Hollander, H.; Meghini, C.; Niccolucci, F.; Nurra, F.; Papatheodorou, C.; Richards, J.; Ronzino, P.; Scopigno, R.; Theodoridou, M.; Tudhope, D.; Vlachidis, A.; and Wright, H.
Internet Archaeology, (43). 2017.
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Extending, mapping, and focusing the CIDOC CRM.
Niccolucci, F.
International Journal on Digital Libraries, 18(4): 251-252. 11 2017.
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Expressing reliability with CIDOC CRM.
Niccolucci, F.; and Hermon, S.
International Journal on Digital Libraries, 18(4): 281-287. 11 2017.
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The paper addresses the issue of documenting and communicating the reliability of evidence interpretation in archaeology and, in general, in heritage science. It is proposed to express reliability with fuzzy logic, and model it using an extension of CIDOC CRM classes and properties. This proposed extension is compared with other CRM extensions.
Antichistica 14 Standard e interoperabilità degli archivi digitali archeologici: il progetto ARIADNE.
Niccolucci, F.
. 2017.
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The increasing use of digital documentation has created an uncontrolled growth of archaeological datasets, determining a fragmentation that makes data reuse difficult. Starting from this consideration, the European project ARIADNE has undertaken a research of methods and tools to overcome linguistic, administrative and data organisation barriers that prevent the integration of datasets related on location, period or subject. Such research aims at creating a registry of online accessible archaeological resources, enabling resource discovery via a unified portal. Such research functionality will enable facet queries, i.e. by theme, period or location. Moreover, the project is producing a number of services that improve data access, for example the visualisation of graphical information (images, 3D models), and develop specific documentation standards based on international standards such as the CIDOC CRM. Sommario 1 Introduzione.-2 ARIADNE: ambito di azione e obiettivi.-3 La Resource Discovery in ARIADNE.-4 La standardizzazione.-5 L'interoperabilità dei database.-6 L'applicazione delle tecniche di data mining.-7 Prospettive e problemi.-8 Riconoscimento.
Process, concept or thing? Some initial considerations in the ontological modelling of architecture.
Guillem, A.; Bruseker, G.; and Ronzino, P.
International Journal on Digital Libraries, 18(4): 289-299. 11 2017.
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abstract = {Architectural knowledge, representing an understanding of our built environment and how it functions, is a domain of research of high interest as much to laypeople as to architects themselves, researchers in cultural heritage in general and formal ontologists. In this work, we aim to provide an initial approach to the question of how to model architectural data in a formal ontology structure and consider some of the problems involved. This question is challenging both for the inherent difficulties of the discourse to be modelled but also for the lack of available structured data sources that would distinctly represent the architectural perspective proper, as well as for the contentious nature of the definition of architecture itself. We, therefore, take the step of exploring in broad strokes the possible approaches to architecture, tracing the notion of architecture as idea, process or thing from the literature. On the basis of this enquiry, we propose a model of some top-level referents of architecture using FRBRoo, an extension of CIDOC CRM that can be used to model creative processes. We argue that with the addition of only four classes to this model, to capture certain architecturally specific concepts and activities, we are able to provide an adequate high-level first approach to this problem. Further, by connecting this work to the existing extension of CRMba, which models built work as a system of relations of filled and unfilled spaces, there is a sufficient high-level ontological structure to begin to test for its utility to explore the issues of the relation between architecture as idea, process and thing.},
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