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Scripta manent: a CIDOC CRM semiotic reading of ancient texts

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This paper tries to identify the most important concepts involved in the study of ancient texts and proposes the use of CIDOC CRM to encode them and to model the scientific process of investigation related to the study of ancient texts to foster integration with other cultural heritage research fields. After identifying the key concepts, assessing the available technologies and analysing the entities provided by CIDOC CRM and by its extensions, we introduce more specific classes to be used as the basis for creating a new extension, CRMtex, which is more responsive to the specific needs of the various disciplines involved (including papyrology, palaeography, codicology and epigraphy).

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a CIDOC CRM semiotic reading of ancient texts

Reference to Cidoc Version:

Version 6.2.2

Presentation Date :

October 12, 2017

Authors:

Achille Felicetti;Francesca Murano

An ontological model for the integration of cultural heritage informat

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The article aims at presenting the formal ontology CIDOC-Conceptual Reference Model, used for allowing information and documentation exchange and integration into the diverse sources of cultural heritage, and which is the leading ontology in the field since years. The ontology logical foundations are examined, entering into the details of the Description Logics, and also the theoretical configuration underlying the schema modelling. The relation (properties) structure - which is the ontology core - is presented along with the mechanisms proposed for the integration of cultural heritage information. In the end, this essays offers a brief and non-exhaustive overview of the information systems actually adopting the CIDOC-CRM ontology, from CLAROS to CulturaItalia.

Reference links:

Italian Journal of Library

Presentation Date :

November 3, 2016

Authors:

Maria Teresa Biagetti

Deducing event chronology in a cultural heritage documentation system

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Abstract
In historically oriented research like archaeology, the determination of the chronology of events in the past plays an important role. For example, a fire of a house can seal off the layers physically below and give a partial relative dating of these. A well known tool in this area is the Harris’ Matrix used to systematize the contexts and layers found in an excavation. In this paper we will discuss a related but more general tool for documenting and analysing temporal entities like events. This tool is developed as a module of a four dimensional event-oriented documentation database based on the conceptual model CIDOC-CRM ISO21127). The database is developed for an archaeological excavation project in Western Norway. In addition to places, events and actors the database is designed to contain texts, images and maps used to document such entities. In use the system will contain a dataset of events, their time-spans and relations between events. The system can detect conflicting dating, increase precision of starts, ends and durations of events and finally display a spatial and chronological overview. Given a time and a place within the dataset, the system can display all possible chronologies for the events in the set. So far, this tool has shown a great potential being used in projects involving large amounts of archive material as preparation for new excavations. Further development includes
the possibility to use other temporal constraints, such as durations and exploring the potential of adding spatial constraints and constraints on actors.

Available Documents:

holmen_ore_caa2009-2.pdf

References:

Computer Applications to Archaeology 2009 Williamsburg, Virginia, USA. March 22-26, 2009

Presentation Date :

March 22, 2009

Authors:

Christian Emil Ore, Jon Holmen

Documenting Events

Description:

In this paper we outline the importance of event-centric documentation for structuring cultural metadata and historical context. Historical analysis can be seen as an analysis of events involving participation of people and things, meeting each other and thus creating history. Event modeling is so abstract that it can be used to describe cultural items and documentations of scientific observations. This work aims to show how event modeling provides more accurate information about life histories, relates and aggregates relevant information, and so helps to a more effective search and retrieval than currently achieved with Dublin Core and VRA.

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Documenting Events

Presentation Date :

October 30, 2006

Authors:

Athina Kritsotaki, Martin Doerr

The use of CRM Core in Multimedia Annotation

Description:

Abstract. Cultural heritage institutions are fantastic resources of multimedia

content. Rich metadata structures, able to capture the diversity of the media,

the subject matter and the context around each information asset, are required to

make this content accessible. This paper describes how the CIDOC CRM Core

format can be used to structure cultural heritage metadata for multimedia by

making the appropriate abstractions to reconstruct and exploit relevant parts of

the historical context for rich associative resource retrieval.

Available Documents:

Patrick Sinclair 2006

References:

Proceedings of First International Workshop on Semantic Web Annotations for Multimedia (SWAMM 2006), part of the 15th World Wide Web Conference, 22-26 May 2006, Edinburgh, Scotland

Contact person:

Patrick Sinclair, Electronics and Computer Science, University of Southampton, SO17 1BJ, United Kingdom

Presentation Date :

May 22, 2006

Authors:

Patrick Sinclair, Matthew Addis, Freddy Choi, Martin Doerr, Paul Lewis, Kirk Martinez

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