Developing common European archaeological concepts through extending the CIDOC CRM within ARIADNE
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Ariadne is a European Commission-funded project focused on developing standardized archaeological documentation concepts by extending the CIDOC CRM framework. It includes various extensions like CRMgeo for spatiotemporal data, Crmsci for scientific observations, and Crmarchaeo for archaeological investigations. The project aims to integrate these models to enhance the understanding and documentation of archaeological findings across different countries.
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