Semantic technologies for archaeology resources: Results from the star project

Binding, Ceri; May, Keith; Souza, Renato; Tudhope, Douglas; Vlachidis, Andreas

Abstract

Outcomes from the STAR Project are presented. The underlying rationale is the need to widen access to archaeo-logical datasets, which will allow third parties to cross search different datasets and investigate the basis for inter-pretations in the underlying data. The semantic technologies employed are based on standard representations of domain vocabularies and the underlying core ontology, an archaeological extension of the CIDOC CRM. Methods for extracting semantic RDF representations from the datasets are described, together with Natural Language Proc-essing techniques for information extraction from a selection of OASIS grey literature. STAR web services and se-mantic search implementations are presented. The need for controlled terminology is emphasised. Illustrative results from the semantic search Demonstrator are discussed.

• Conference Name: The Annual Conference on Computer Applications and Quantitative Methods in Archaeology (CAA2010)
• Acceptance Date: Jan 1, 2010
• Publication Date: Jan 1, 2013
• Deposit Date: Feb 8, 2018
• Publicly Available Date: Feb 8, 2018
• Peer Reviewed: Peer Reviewed
• Pages: 555-561
• Book Title: Fusion of Cultures: Proceedings of the 38th Annual Conference on Computer Applications and Quantitative Methods in Archaeology, Granada, Spain, April 2010
• ISBN: 9781407311081
• Keywords: archaeology
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• Additional Information: Additional Information : This material has been published in CAA 2010: Fusion of Cultures. Proceedings of the 38th Annual Conference on Computer Applications and Quantitative Methods in Archaeology, Granada, Spain, April 2010, edited by M. Contreras, F. Farjas and F.J. Melero, published by BAR Publishing. This version is free to view and download for personal use only. It cannot be reproduced in any form without permission of the publisher. The complete book is available at http://www.barpublishing.com.; Title of Conference or Conference Proceedings : The Annual Conference on Computer Applications and Quantitative Methods in Archaeology (CAA2010)
• Contract Date: Feb 8, 2018