ARIADNE is funded by the European Commission's Seventh Framework Programme
Towards Interoperability: The ARIADNE Registry Dimitris Gavrilis, Christos Papatheodorou
Digital CuraDon Unit IMIS –Athena Research Centre
ARIADNE Objectives • Integration of the existing archaeological research data
infrastructures so that researchers can (re)use the various distributed datasets.
• Activities: • Aggregation: gather information about the existing data resources
and services. • Integration: implement advanced search functionalities on this
information in order to support the discovery of resources that make good candidates for integration.
Data Registries • Data organization and management approach that
provides access to and re-use of distributed data resources and services.
• Datasets, collections, metadata schemas and vocabularies along with their mappings are hosted and described by a common schema.
• ARIADNE project aims to step beyond accessibility and re-usability and integrate existing archaeological research data.
ARIADNE Catalogue Data Model Outline The central notion of the model is the class Archaeological Resource.
:DataResource • :Dataset • :ArchaeologicalCollection • :Metadata Schemas
:LanguageResource • :Vocabulary • :Mapping • :Gazetteer
:Service
ArchaeologicalResource
Attribute
Usage Notes
:name The name of the mapping.
:source
The id of the source Metadata Schema.
:target
The id of the target Metadata Schema.
:xsltURI
The URI to the XSLT describing the mapping
XSLT file upload Uploaded the XSLT file, if any.
Metadata Mapping
Some numbers Provider name!
Estimated records! Description of the content!
ZRC!SAZU! 9000! Archaeol.!site!of!Slovenia!
ADS! 31,000!
c.500!excavation!archives!(each!with!multiple!files!and!file!types,!but!with!collection!level!metadata!only)!26,000!grey!lit!reports!2000!England's!Rock!Art!2500!Image!Bank!
ARUPPCAS! 10000! Archaeological!aerial!photographs!of!Bohemia!
KNAWPDANS! 26500!19.000!archaeological!reports!and!3.000!excavation!archives!of!EASY!repository!&!dendrochronological!data!of!DCCD!repository!
DISCOVERY! 5500!
Online!database!of!human!ramains!(www.maapingdeathdb.ie)!details!of!170!excavations!Arcaeological!aerial!image!collection!(2000!images)!Iroan!Age!monuments!&!Roman!finds!Databases!(approx!1000!records)!National!Roads!Authority!(NRA)!Excavation!reports!(2000)!
NIAMPBAS! 17000!Automated!Information!System!Arheologicheska!karta!na!Bulgaria!(AIS!AKB)!–!Archaeological!Map!of!Bulgaria!
MiBACT!P!SIGECweb!277000! (3!datasets)!
275000!Catalog!cards!regarding!archaeological!finds,!105!of!Archaelogical!sites,!1800!of!Archaeological!materials!(Italy)!
INARP! 20700!bibliographic!reccords!of!archaeological!reports!with!a!summary!and!an!indexation!for!each!report!
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• REST based ingest service • receives XML instances compliant with ARIADNE Catalog Data
Model XSD • check for mandatory fields, integrity checks, perform auditing on
newly ingested records, etc. • a status / response result in JSON/XML
• OAI-PMH for item ingestion from native repositories • SPARQL interface
• http://ariadne-registry.dcu.gr:8080/openrdf-sesame/repositories/ariadne
Machine Interface
Main services
ARIADNE Catalog & Data Access: • contains the database where all
informaDon is stored; follows the ACDM model
• accessible through a Data Access Layer
Main services
Deposit Service: Ingest ACDM related informaDon and to check for mandatory fields, integrity checks, perform audiDng on newly ingested records
Main services
Digital assets management • provides tools to manage digital
assets within the ARIADNE catalog • create new records and manage
exisDng records in the ARIADNE catalog
Main services PreservaDon Service stores the full lifecycle of each enDty of the ACDM model including vocabularies
Main services Quality Service evaluates the provided informaDon about an enDty (e.g. a dataset, collecDon or a distribuDon) and reports back a quality measure.
Main services
Metadata Enhancement • Uses ontologies and vocabularies. • Enhancements include mining of
relaDons, automaDc linking with thesauri and vocabularies, etc.
Main services Vocabulary Management • Ingest and manage vocabularies • SKOSify vocabularies • Manage SKOS concepts, ediDng and
interlinking with each other
• What: to enable resource discovery according to • Event Types (such as excavation, survey etc), • Topic/theme, • Collections/Objects.
• Where: to enable resource discovery according to spatial criteria.
• When: to enable resource discovery according to temporal criteria, such as local/national period terms.
• Resource type: to enable resource discovery based on the attribute ariadne:subject of the class ArchaeologicalResource: • Fieldwork databases, Event/intervention databases, Sites and
monuments databases, Scientific databases, Artefacts and Collections of Artefacts and Burials.
• Need: mappings to SKOSified thesauri and vocabularies of archaeological object types, periods and topics.
Integration strategy
Main services Resource Discovery Allows searching under the criteria: Language, Geographical, Temporal, ThemaDc, Keyword
Main services
Preview Service a group of records are displayed In a list, On a map, On a Dmeline, Using a combinaDon of map, Dmeline and other criteria (e.g. themaDc)
• Metadata mappings • Metadata mappings to CIDOC CRM
• Ontology based integration
• Vocabulary mappings to enable
Further needs for semantic integration
Disclaimer ARIADNE is a project funded by the European Commission under the Community’s Seventh Framework Programme, contract no. FP7-‐INFRASTRUCTURES-‐2012-‐1-‐313193. The views and opinions expressed in this presentaDon are the sole responsibility of the authors and do not necessarily reflect the views of the European Commission.