Enhancing CIDOC-CRM and compatible models with the concept of multiple interpretation

Modelling cultural heritage and archaeological objects is used as much for management as for research purposes. To ensure the sustainable benefit of digital data, models benefit from taking the data specificities of historical and archaeological domains into account. Starting from a conceptual model tailored to storing these specificities, we present, in this paper, an extended mapping to CIDOC-CRM and its compatible models. Offering an ideal framework to structure and highlight the best modelling practices, these ontologies are essentially dedicated to storing semantic data which provides information about cultural heritage objects. Based on this standard, our proposal focuses on multiple interpretation and sequential reality.

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Aggregation of Linked Data in the Cultural Heritage Domain: A Case Study in the Europeana Network

Information ◽

10.3390/info10080252 ◽

2019 ◽

Vol 10 (8) ◽

pp. 252 ◽

Cited By ~ 1

Author(s):

Nuno Freire ◽

René Voorburg ◽

Roland Cornelissen ◽

Sjors de Valk ◽

Enno Meijers ◽

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Keyword(s):

Cultural Heritage ◽

Digital Libraries ◽

Linked Data ◽

Data Models ◽

Point Of View ◽

Functional Requirements ◽

Major Activity ◽

Semantic Data ◽

Metadata Aggregation

Online cultural heritage resources are widely available through digital libraries maintained by numerous organizations. In order to improve discoverability in cultural heritage, the typical approach is metadata aggregation, a method where centralized efforts such as Europeana improve the discoverability by collecting resource metadata. The redefinition of the traditional data models for cultural heritage resources into data models based on semantic technology has been a major activity of the cultural heritage community. Yet, linked data may bring new innovation opportunities for cultural heritage metadata aggregation. We present the outcomes of a case study that we conducted within the Europeana cultural heritage network. In this study, the National Library of The Netherlands contributed by providing the role of data provider, while the Dutch Digital Heritage Network contributed as an intermediary aggregator that aggregates datasets and provides them to Europeana, the central aggregator. We identified and analyzed the requirements for an aggregation solution for the linked data, guided by current aggregation practices of the Europeana network. These requirements guided the definition of a workflow that fulfils the same functional requirements as the existing one. The workflow was put into practice within this study and has led to the development of software applications for administrating datasets, crawling the web of data, harvesting linked data, data analysis and data integration. We present our analysis of the study outcomes and analyze the effort necessary, in terms of technology adoption, to establish a linked data approach, from the point of view of both data providers and aggregators. We also present the expertise requirements we identified for cultural heritage data analysts, as well as determining which supporting tools were required to be designed specifically for semantic data.

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Crowdsourcing Lost Cultural Heritage

ISPRS Annals of Photogrammetry Remote Sensing and Spatial Information Sciences ◽

10.5194/isprsannals-ii-5-w3-295-2015 ◽

2015 ◽

Vol II-5/W3 ◽

pp. 295-300 ◽

Cited By ~ 11

Author(s):

E. K. Stathopoulou ◽

A. Georgopoulos ◽

G. Panagiotopoulos ◽

D. Kaliampakos

Keyword(s):

High Risk ◽

Cultural Heritage ◽

Human Memory ◽

Digital Data ◽

Digital Representations ◽

Current State ◽

Preventive Actions ◽

History Of ◽

Cultural Heritage Objects

Cultural Heritage all over the world is at high risk. Natural and human activities endanger the current state of monuments and sites, whereas many of them have already been destroyed especially during the last years. Preventive actions are of utmost importance for the protection of human memory and the prevention of irreplaceable. These actions may be carried out either in situ or virtually. Very often in situ preventive, or protective or restoration actions are difficult or even impossible, as e.g. in cases of earthquakes, fires or war activity. Digital preservation of cultural heritage is a challenging task within photogrammetry and computer vision communities, as efforts are taken to collect digital data, especially of the monuments that are at high risk. Visit to the field and data acquisition is not always feasible. To overcome the missing data problem, crowdsourced imagery is used to create a visual representation of lost cultural heritage objects. Such digital representations may be 2D or 3D and definitely help preserve the memory and history of the lost heritage. Sometimes they also assist studies for their reconstruction. An initiative to collect imagery data from the public and create a visual 3D representation of a recently destroyed stone bridge almost 150 years old is being discussed in this study. To this end, a crowdsourcing platform has been designed and the first images collected have been processed with the use of SfM algorithms.

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Metadata and Tools for Integration and Preservation of Cultural Heritage 3D Information

Geoinformatics FCE CTU ◽

10.14311/gi.6.16 ◽

2011 ◽

Vol 6 ◽

pp. 118-124 ◽

Cited By ~ 14

Author(s):

Achille Felicetti ◽

Matteo Lorenzini

Keyword(s):

Cultural Heritage ◽

Data Storage ◽

3D Models ◽

Digital Data ◽

Digital Repository ◽

Digital Repositories ◽

Data Encoding ◽

Semantic Data ◽

The One ◽

3D Information

In this paper we investigate many of the various storage, portability and interoperability issues arising among archaeologists and cultural heritage people when dealing with 3D technologies. On the one side, the available digital repositories look often unable to guarantee affordable features in the management of 3D models and their metadata; on the other side the nature of most of the available data format for 3D encoding seem to be not satisfactory for the necessary portability required nowadays by 3D information across different systems. We propose a set of possible solutions to show how integration can be achieved through the use of well known and wide accepted standards for data encoding and data storage. Using a set of 3D models acquired during various archaeological campaigns and a number of open source tools, we have implemented a straightforward encoding process to generate meaningful semantic data and metadata. We will also present the interoperability process carried out to integrate the encoded 3D models and the geographic features produced by the archaeologists. Finally we will report the preliminary (rather encouraging) development of a semantic enabled and persistent digital repository, where 3D models (but also any kind of digital data and metadata) can easily be stored, retrieved and shared with the content of other digital archives.

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Hyper, Multi, or Single? Thinking about Text in Graphs and Trees

Proceedings of Balisage: The Markup Conference 2021 ◽

10.4242/balisagevol26.bleeker01 ◽

2021 ◽

Author(s):

Elli Bleeker ◽

Ronald Haentjens Dekker ◽

Bram Buitendijk

Keyword(s):

Cultural Heritage ◽

Conceptual Model ◽

Data Models ◽

Technical Level ◽

Logical Model ◽

Xml Data ◽

Textual Data ◽

As Graph

This paper explores the potential of combining the Text-As-Graph (TAG) and the XML data models. It proposes a digital editing workflow in which users can model, edit, and store text in TAG, and subsequently export the textual data to XML for further analysis or publication with XML-based tools. The conversion from TAGML to XML presents several interesting challenges on a technical level as well as a philological level. Overall, we argue that there may be many pragmatic reasons to encode cultural heritage texts in XML, but we have to be mindful of the XML framework becoming synonymous with the framework in which we conceptualize text. The paper therefore dives deep into the translation from conceptual model to logical model(s) and argues in favor of understanding the affordances and limitations of the technologies we use.

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Historical Context Ontology (HiCO): A Conceptual Model for Describing Context Information of Cultural Heritage Objects

Communications in Computer and Information Science - Metadata and Semantics Research ◽

10.1007/978-3-319-24129-6_37 ◽

2015 ◽

pp. 424-436 ◽

Cited By ~ 2

Author(s):

Marilena Daquino ◽

Francesca Tomasi

Keyword(s):

Cultural Heritage ◽

Conceptual Model ◽

Historical Context ◽

Context Information ◽

Cultural Heritage Objects

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Implementation of multiple interpretation data model concepts in CIDOC CRM and compatible models

Virtual Archaeology Review ◽

10.4995/var.2018.8884 ◽

2018 ◽

Vol 9 (19) ◽

pp. 50 ◽

Cited By ~ 4

Author(s):

Muriel Van Ruymbeke ◽

Pierre Hallot ◽

Gilles-Antoine Nys ◽

Roland Billen

Keyword(s):

Cultural Heritage ◽

Data Model ◽

Reference Model ◽

International Committee ◽

Model Mapping ◽

Proposal A ◽

Historical Objects ◽

Multiple Interpretation ◽

Cidoc Crm ◽

Structuring Knowledge

Modelling cultural heritage is a research topic shared by a broad scientific community. Although this subject has been widely studied, it seems that some aspects still have to be tackled. This paper describes two CIDOC (ICOM’s International Committee for Documentation) Conceptual Reference Model (CRM) extension proposals (A & B) dedicated to structuring knowledge concerning historical objects and historical events. It focuses on multiple interpretations and sequential reality, this last being a concept which does not exist in CIDOC CRM but was originally developed in another conceptual model, the Multiple Interpretation Data Model (MIDM). To begin, an extensive description of MIDM concepts is given as well as a recall of its main peculiarities. It is followed by a mapping proposed to translate MIDM concepts into ontologies devoted to describing cultural heritage entities and activities, the CIDOC CRM and compatible models. Unfortunately, some MIDM concepts are not covered by this mapping because they do not match with existing CRM entities and properties, and this paper explains why an extension is necessary. It describes how the two versions of the extension proposal cover the missing MIDM concepts. One of these two versions, the proposal A, has been implemented as ontology in Protégé and has been tested through an instantiation phase using a real example. This instantiation phase is fully detailed. It shows that proposal A works coherently with CRM ontologies. On another hand, instantiation phase highlights improvements needs such as recording chronology in a structured way.Highlights:<ul><li>Cultural Heritage modelling involves two different ontological concepts: reality and information held about it.</li><li>Historical Objects existence is a sequence made by events, stability periods and changes affecting it.</li><li>Multiple Interpretation Data Model mapping to CIDOC CRM and its extension proposal take into account difference between reality and information. They also manage sequence concept.</li></ul>

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Estudos em arqueometria e arte por metodologias nuclear-atômico-moleculares não destrutivas no Laboratório de Física Nuclear Aplicada da Universidade Estadual de Londrina

Cadernos do LEPAARQ (UFPEL) ◽

10.15210/lepaarq.v15i30.13011 ◽

2018 ◽

Vol 15 (30) ◽

pp. 219 ◽

Cited By ~ 1

Author(s):

Carlos Roberto Appoloni

Keyword(s):

Cultural Heritage ◽

Nuclear Physics ◽

Gamma Ray ◽

Ceramic Materials ◽

X Ray Diffraction ◽

X Ray ◽

Wide Range ◽

Different Types ◽

Cultural Heritage Objects ◽

Archaeological Objects

No Laboratório de Física Nuclear Aplicada (LFNA – DFIS/UEL) diferentes combinações de metodologias nucleares, atômicas e moleculares têm sido empregadas para estudos de objetos do patrimônio cultural. Metodologias como a Fluorescência de Raios X (nas diferentes modalidades EDXRF, PXRF, TXRF), a Espectroscopia Raman e a Transmissão de Raios Gama têm sido empregadas no estudo de diferentes tipos de objetos arqueológicos e, quando necessário, em colaboração com outros laboratórios, em conjunto com técnicas como a Emissão de raios X induzida por partículas (PIXE), Espectroscopia Mössbauer, Microscopia Eletrônica, Radiografia Digital, Difração de Raios X e Retroespalhamento Rutherford (RBS), entre outras. Neste contexto, apresenta-se uma síntese dos trabalhos realizados desde o início do envolvimento do LFNA com Arqueometria e Artes, fazendo pequeno um recorte dentro da larga gama de objetos do patrimônio cultural analisados, focando alguns materiais cerâmicos. Abstract: Different combinations of nuclear, atomic and molecular methodologies are employed In the Laboratory of Applied Nuclear Physics (LFNA - DFIS / UEL) to study objects of cultural heritage. Methodologies such as X-Ray Fluorescence (in the different modalities EDXRF, PXRF, TXRF), Raman Spectroscopy and Gamma Ray Transmission have been employed to the study of different types of archaeological objects and when necessary, in collaboration with other laboratories, in conjunction with techniques such as particle induced X-ray emission (PIXE), Mössbauer Spectroscopy, Electron Microscopy, Digital Radiography, X-ray Diffraction and Rutherford Backscatter (RBS), among others. In this context, a synthesis of work accomplished since the beginning of the LFNA's involvement with Archaeometry and Arts is presented, making a small cut within the wide range of cultural heritage objects analyzed, focusing on some ceramic materials.

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PROBLEMS OF CLASSIFICATION OF CULTURAL HERITAGE OBJECTS

Sociopolitical sciences ◽

10.33693/2223-0092-2020-10-2-158-168 ◽

2020 ◽

Vol 10 (2) ◽

pp. 158-168

Author(s):

SVETLANA IVANOVA ◽

Keyword(s):

Cultural Heritage ◽

Cultural Values ◽

Research Work ◽

Cultural Property ◽

Cultural Inheritance ◽

Federal Laws ◽

Cultural Heritage Objects ◽

Cultural Monuments

The purpose of the research work is to analyze the norms of Federal laws, as well as the laws of the Russian Federation's constituent entities, devoted to the definitions and classification of the concepts “cultural heritage”, “historical and cultural monuments”, “cultural values”. Conclusions obtained in the course of the research: based on the study of current legislation, it is concluded that the definitions of “cultural values”, “cultural property”, “objects of cultural inheritance” contained in various normative legal acts differ in content. Based on the research, the author proposes the concept of “cultural values”.

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