1. ARIADNE
is
funded
by
the
European
Commission's
Seventh
Framework
Programme
Moving
ahead:
The
integraDon
process
Achille
FeliceG
–
WP12
VAST-‐LAB
-‐
PIN,
Università
degli
Studi
di
Firenze,
Italy
2. IntegraDon
in
ARIADNE
• CreaDon
of
an
integrated
ecosystem
of
archaeological
informaDon
• To
guarantee
interoperability
among
data
coming
from
different
archives
• To
use
data
as
if
they
were
stored
in
a
single
archive
– Unique
access
point
– Uniform
interfaces
• To
ensure
retrieval
of
informaDon
in
a
coherent
and
meaningful
way
– SemanDcs
5. Preparing
Legacy
Archives
– DigiDsaDon
of
informaDon
on
paper
– Online
availability
• MicrosoY
Word,
Excel,
Access,
PDF,
GIS
…
– Online
accessibility
improvement
• ADS,
ARACHNE,
ZENON,
FasDOnline,
…
– Consistency
checking
for
mapping
and
informaDon
extracDon
• Legacy
data
to
CIDOC
CRM
• Legacy
thesauri
to
SKOS
6. Mapping
to
CIDOC
CRM
– Data
DescripDon
– Common
Language
Archaeological Object
E22 Man-made Object
Excavation/Survey
E7 Activity
P24B changed ownership through
DSCU, DSCS: Finding Place
E53 Place
P7 took place at
DSCF, DSCA, RCGA,:
Excavation responsibles
E39 Actor
DSCT, RCGE:
Motivation
E17 Activity
P14 carried out by
P17 was motivated by
SCAN: Excavation Name
E41 Appellation
P57 is identified by
DSCD RCGD:
Excavation Date
E52 Time Span
P4 has time-span
DSCM, RCGM: Method
E55 Type
P32 used general technique
[Open Vocabulary]
"Stratigraphic"
"Open Area"
...
[Open Vocabulary]
"Rescue Archaeology"
"Photo Interpretation"
...
TCL:
Type = "Finding"
NCUN, DSCI: Identifiers
E42 Identifier
P1 is identified by
[DSC Authority File]
OBJECT FINDING
E8 Acquisition
P117 occurs during
7. ARIADNE
is
funded
by
the
European
Commission's
Seventh
Framework
Programme
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Metatada
Repository
CIDOC
CRM
Content
Providers
Integra4on
&
Interoperability
XML
OAI-‐PMH
RDF
IntegraDon
Layer
– Common
semanDc
representaDon
(mapping)
– Data
transparency
– Data
peculiarity
preserved
by
the
system
8. Querying
the
integrated
archives
• User
interfaces
and
the
ARIADNE
Portal
– Main
access
point
to
system
and
services
• Archaeological
objects,
places,
events,
actors
and
types
– Browse
and
refine
with
facet
views
• InteracDon
with
the
Registry
– Drives
the
queries
towards
the
most
relevant
archives
• InteracDon
with
terminological
data
and
services
– Vocabularies
to
provide
support
at
query
and
retrieval
Dme
10. Preserving
legacy
archives
• Legacy
database
syncronizaDon
– ARIADNE
system
constantly
updated
according
to
modificaDons
of
legacy
archives
• References
to
legacy
archives
always
provided
– Data
provenance
– URLs
to
informaDon
on
original
portals/web
applicaDons
• User
to
navigate
original
informaDon
– To
perform
custom
searches
tailored
on
specific
needs
11. ARIADNE
is
funded
by
the
European
Commission's
Seventh
Framework
Programme
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Metatada
Repository
Registry
ACDM
CIDOC
CRM
Content
Providers
Integra4on
&
Interoperability
Integra4on
Services
ConfiguraDon
&
Management
ARIADNE
Portal
Browse/Query
Interfaces
Vocabularies
Deposit
Services
OAI-‐PMH
XML
Metadata
Enhancement
Data
+
Metadata
Data
+
Metadata
Data
+
Metadata
Data
+
Metadata
Resource
Discovery
Preview
PreservaDon
Data
Access
(SPARQL,
REST)
Archive
Discovery
Digital
Asset
Management
Dataset
Discovery
Vocabularies
Management
WEB
LOD
Repository
and
Services
Architecture
12. Final
consideraDons
• Very
advanced
stage
of
development
– End
of
the
project
• ARIADNE
main
goal
– “IntegraDon
of
exisDng
archaeological
research
data
infrastructure
through
new
and
powerful
technologies”
(ARIADNE
DoW)
• “From
differences
results
the
most
beauDful
harmony”(Heraclitus
of
Ephesus)
13. 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.
Thank
you