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Addressing the standards question inArchaeological Digital Data Management using Linked Open Data

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archaeological+standards

it’s a problematic issue

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Linked Open Data

#LinkedData

#OpenData

a workable middle-ground?

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Introducing apractical implementation of LOD

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#linkedarc.net

Priniatikos Pyrgos dataset

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A brief history of research

archaeological excavation producing lost of digital data

no joined up thinking

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Dealing with a lack of standards

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5 Star Linked Open Data

put your data online under an open license

make it structured (e.g. as an Excel file)

use non-proprietary formats (e.g. XML and not Excel)

use URIs to identify resources

link your data to external datasets

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LOD and archaeology

1 LOD data is open

2 semantic transparency

3 promotes data linking

4 LOD data is live

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The RDF triple#RDF

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A triple example

‘…the boy’s name is Tom…’

subject

predicate

object

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RDF representation

‘Tom’label

http://example.com/rdf/boy100

@prefix example: <http://example.com/rdf/> .

example:boy100 rdfs:label “Tom” ;

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An archaeological LOD example

The Emerald Friary

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An archaeological LOD example

How to represent cup artefacts digitally?

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Ceramic cup artefact as LOD

remote data linking

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An evolving knowledge network

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A quick recap

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the issue: the archaeology + standards issue

solution? the Linked Open Data middle ground

and now on to talking about linkedARC.net

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Exploring http://linkedarc.net

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Priniatikos Pyrgos: main project page

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Contexts datatable page

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Context 1 record page

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Links to images stored on Flickr

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Statistical analysis tool

using live remote RDF data

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linkedARC.net architecture #PythonCode

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Priniatikos Pyrgos on linkedARC.net #PriniatikosPyrgos

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Future linkedARC.net work

1 more archaeological project datasets

2more use of external vocabularies

3 Linked Open Data + geospatial data

4visualising Linked Open Data

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Concluding remarks

the archaeological standards dilemma

constraint utilityV

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Concluding remarks

could Linked OpenData be the solution?

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Concluding remarks

transparent raw data and metadata

linkable data

real-time linking to external datasets

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Thank you

Digital Arts and Humanities PhD programmePRTLI funded

Dep. of Classics, Trinity College Dublin

Dr Christine Morris

The Priniatikos Pyrgos Research Project

Dr Barry Molloy, Dr Jo Day and Dr Barbara Hayden

Web: www.franklynam.com

www.linkedarc.net

Twitter: @flynam

Email: flynam@tcd.ie