Presentation by Martin Doerr
Center for Cultural Informatics, Institute of Computer Science
Foundation for Research and Technology – Hellas
and
Gerald Hiebel
Center for Cultural Informatics, Institute of Computer Science
Foundation for Research and Technology – Hellas,
University of Innsbruck, AB Vermessung und Geoinformation
Full-day session on archaeological infrastructures and services at the 18th Cultural Heritage and New Technologies (CHNT) conference
Vienna, Austria
11th -13th November 2013
Developing common European archaeological concepts through extending the CIDOC CRM within ARIADNE
1. ARIADNE is funded by the European Commission's Seventh Framework Programme
Developing common European archaeological concepts through extending the CIDOC CRM within ARIADNE
Martin Doerr1, Gerald Hiebel1,2
1Center for Cultural Informatics, Institute of Computer Science
Foundation for Research and Technology – Hellas
2University of Innsbruck, AB Vermessung und Geoinformation
2. Introduction
•Infrastructures and services for sharing archaeological documentation need a common understanding of the underlying concepts of documentation
•ARIADNE defined as standard the CIDOC CRM
•Main concepts of the CIDOC CRM
•Extensions of the CIDOC CRM with its central concepts
–CRMgeo – Spatiotemporal information – Cultural Geosemantics
–CRMsci – Scientific observation - InGeoClouds
–CRMarchaeo - Archaeological investigations – Ariadne
–CRMdig - Provenance of digital information – 3D Coform
3. 3
The CIDOC Conceptual Reference Model
The CIDOC Conceptual Reference Model
–A collaboration with the International Council of Museums
– An ontology of 86 classes and 137 properties for culture and more
– With the capacity to explain hundreds of (meta)data formats
–International standard since 2006 - ISO 21127:2006
Serving as:
–intellectual guide to create schemata, formats, profiles
– A language for analysis of existing sources for integration/mediation
“Identify elements with common meaning”
– Transportation format for data integration / migration / Internet
4. CIDOC CRM – Main Concepts
location
based on ICS-FORTH February 19, 2002
Actors
Physical Things
Types
refine
participate in
at
refer to
affect
Information Objects
Places
Time Spans
Appellations
Albert
Events
5. Medieval miners
Medieval mining
Bronze Age Mining
Bronze Age miners
Archaeologists
Historians
Excavation, Documentation
& Measurement
Remains of Bronze Age mines
Evidence from all mining
Remains of Medieval mines
Historical Sources
Example of Mining History in Austria (Tyrol)
Characteristic mines
Images and illustrations with courtesy of the
Research Center HiMAT, University of Innsbruck
Actors
Physical Things
Information Objects
Events
Actors
Physical Things
6. CRMgeo – Spatiotemporal information
•Integration of Geoinformation and CIDOC CRM
Place
Phenomenal Places derive their identity through events or physical things over the spacetime volume that they occupy
Declarative Places derive their identity through Geometric Place Expressions
Declarative Places may approximate Phenomenal Places
Physical Things
Events
Phenomenal Place
(13,41 48,33,….)
Geometric Place Expression
Declarative Place
Spacetime Volume
7. Characteristic mine
CRMgeo - Phenomenal Places
Bronze Age Mines
Physical Thing
Spacetime Volume
Phenomenal Place
Real Lifetimespan of Bronze Age Mine
Phenomenal Time Span
8. CRMgeo - Declarative Places
Prospection activities
Physical Thing
Declarative Places
Historical Sources: Mine in rock formation, Topographic Map
Phenomenal Place
Spacetime Volume
approximate
(13,41 48,33,….)
Geometric Place Expressions
Digital Elevation models - LIDAR
9. CRMsci - Scientific Observation
•Creation of Physical Things
•Model scientific observation and inference making
•Introduces matter without stability of form
Amount of Matter
Physical Things
Physical
Genesis
Observation
Inference making
Events
10. CRMsci – Genesis, Observation, Inference
Dendrochronological or C14 Measurements
Observation
2710±35BP
2780±35BP
from 900 to 870 BC
Declarative Time Span
Inference making
Bronze Age Mining
Events
Inference making
Physical Things
Physical Genesis
Inference making
Observation
11. CRMarchaeo – Archaeological Extension
•Relation of Physical Genesis, involved matter and archaeological investigation
Physical Genesis
Constellation of Matter
Stratigraphic Unit
Stratigraphic Unit
Stratigraphic Unit
Surfaces
Amounts of Matter
Excavation Process Unit
Excavation
Excavation Process Unit
Excavation Process Unit
12. CRMarchaeo – Archaeological Extension
Excavation
Observation:
Geophysical Methods
Surfaces
Amount of Matter
Excavation Process Unit
Excavation Process Unit
Excavation Process Unit
Physical Objects
Observation: Survey, Chemical Analysis,….
Information Objects
Inference making
Physical Genesis
Constellation of Matter
Stratigraphic Unit
Stratigraphic Unit
Stratigraphic Unit
13. CRMdig – Digital provenance
•Creation of information objects/digital objects through the measurement/observation of physical objects
•Provenance of digital objects through measurement/observation and processing chains
Events
Information Objects
Physical Things
Digital Measurement Event
Digital Object
Software Execution
Digital Object
14. CRMdig – Digital provenance
Physical Things
Digital Measurement Event
Software Execution
Digital Object
Digital Object
Software Execution
Software Execution
Digital Objects
15. Conclusion
•CIDOC CRM with its extensions is able to provide a common understanding of the underlying concepts of documentation within the ARIADNE Infrastructure
•Combine models for historic events (CIDOC CRM) and research documentation investigating historic events (CRMsci, CRMgeo, CRMarchaeo, CRMdig)
•Build use cases applying the models to the archaeological documentation in different countries to test models and improve if necessary
16. Acknowledgement
ARIADNE is a project funded by the European Commission under the Community’s Seventh Framework Programme, contract no. FP7-INFRASTRUCTURES-2012-1- 313193.
Part of the presented research has been funded within the Marie Curie Actions— Intra-European Fellowships (IEF) Funding scheme under project number 299998.
The views and opinions expressed in this presentation are the sole responsibility of the authors and do not necessarily reflect the views of the European Commission.
Work in collaboration with the Research Center HiMAT, University of Innsbruck
Thank You