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Avebury & Stonehenge Archaeological & Historical Research Group meeting – May 2015
Linked Geospatial Data for Archaeological Research
Paul CrippsUniversity of South Wales, Trefforest, UK• Hypermedia Research Group• Geographic Information Systems (GIS) Research GroupArchaeogeomancy, Salisbury, UKhttp://gstar.archaeogeomancy.net/
Investigating Archaeological Research Questions using a Linked Data framework
Avebury & Stonehenge Archaeological & Historical Research Group meeting – May 2015
Introduction
• What’s all this then…?• Linked Data• Linked Geospatial Data• GSTAR:• Resource• Research workflows• Research Questions
Earthorama by spdorsey http://flic.kr/p/69C5QD
Avebury & Stonehenge Archaeological & Historical Research Group meeting – May 2015
What’s all this then…?
• Linked Data • Publishing framework• Querying framework
• Links (online) resources together• Querying across diverse resources• Uses ontologies as semantic glue• Based on concepts not terms• Vocabulary providers content
• Growing engagement in heritage sector:• Historic England, Historic Scotland, Archaeology Data
Service, systems developers/designers/architects
Avebury & Stonehenge Archaeological & Historical Research Group meeting – May 2015
Linked (Geospatial) Data
• LD comprises assertions• <concept uri><relationship><concept uri>• <Stonehenge><hasType><henge>
• LGD adds spatial properties, relationships• <Stonehenge><has depiction><polygon>• <Stone circle><spatially within><henge>
• Possible to model assertions, evidence, inference & propagate change
Avebury & Stonehenge Archaeological & Historical Research Group meeting – May 2015
Interoperating
Graphic from Towards a Collaborative Strategy for sector information management (TACOS) seminar, University of York, May 2014
Avebury & Stonehenge Archaeological & Historical Research Group meeting – May 2015
Colonisation of Britain Linked DataWessex Archaeology, Archaeology Data Service
Linked Data resource built using STELLAR Toolkit including Ordnance Survey Open Data
Avebury & Stonehenge Archaeological & Historical Research Group meeting – May 2015
GSTAR
•GeoSemantic Technologies for Archaeological Research • Doctoral research project• Investigating LGD for Archaeological Research• Due for completion April 2016
• Building on:• core CIDOC CRM (cultural heritage domain ontology)• CRMEH extension (archaeology ontology)• GeoSPARQL (spatial ontology)• Heritage Data vocabularies (content)• Ordnance Survey Linked Open Data (content)
Avebury & Stonehenge Archaeological & Historical Research Group meeting – May 2015
GSTAR – Research workflows
• Current workflow:• Request data• Collate & Process• Concordance• Produce new,
standalone resource• Assessment, Analysis• Snapshot reporting,
narratives• Archive• (Repeat…)
• Proposed workflow:• Consume data• Assessment,
Analysis• Augment data• Data driven
reporting, narratives
Avebury & Stonehenge Archaeological & Historical Research Group meeting – May 2015
GSTAR – Resources
• Study Area: Stonehenge• Sources: • Wiltshire HER (c. 2K Monuments; 1K Events;
26K Sources)• Wiltshire Museums (c. 44K objects)• Wessex Archaeology archives (20 projects;
trial trenches, fieldwalking, testpits, etc)• Historic England (designation records)• Ordnance Survey (Parishes, places, etc)
Avebury & Stonehenge Archaeological & Historical Research Group meeting – May 2015
GSTAR – Research Questions
• Engage Domain Experts (aka you!)• Given the available resource:• Topics?• Themes? • Specific Questions? • Burning Issues?
• Granularity• Detailed questions, guided by Research Framework,
supported by data
• To form the basis for evaluating GSTAR resource & workflows
Avebury & Stonehenge Archaeological & Historical Research Group meeting – May 2015
GSTAR – Research Questions
• Example themes:•Associations, relationships, patterns:• Object data: properties, classifications, dating,
locations• Fieldwork data: features, finds, dating,
locations• Monument data: properties, classifications,
dating, locations
•Particular focus on spatial elements
Avebury & Stonehenge Archaeological & Historical Research Group meeting – May 2015
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• [email protected]• [email protected]•@pauljcripps
• gstar.archaeogeomancy.net• hypermedia.research.southwales.ac.uk• gis.research.southwales.ac.uk
Avebury & Stonehenge Archaeological & Historical Research Group meeting – May 2015
Acknowledgements
• Thanks to:• University of South Wales – funding, supervision, advice• Archaeology Data Service – data from their archives• Wessex Archaeology – data, photographs and images• Wiltshire Council – access to the Historic Environment Record (HER)
data• Wiltshire Museums – access to museum collections data
• Personal thanks• Supervisors/Advisors: Doug Tudhope, Mark Ware, Alex Lohfink• Research group: Ceri Binding, Andreas Vlachidis, Keith May• Peers and colleagues: Michael Charno, Chris Brayne, Gerald Heibel,
David Dawson
• Image Credit• Earthorama by spdorsey http://flic.kr/p/69C5QD
