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A stellar role for knowledge organization systems in digital archaeology

Tudhope, Douglas; Binding, Ceri; May, Keith; Jeffrey, Stuart; Vlachidis, Andreas

Authors

Douglas Tudhope

Ceri Binding

Keith May

Stuart Jeffrey



Abstract

Research data in archaeology is being made more accessible through the semantic efforts of the STAR and STELLAR projects of two United Kingdom universities. The goal of STAR (Semantic Technologies for Archaeological Resources) is to facilitate semantic interoperability, enabling a structured semantic search of five databases and grey literature reports using an ontology of cultural heritage in combination with other knowledge organization systems. STAR employs natural language processing to identify key concepts and generate semantic metadata to support the unified search. STELLAR (Semantic Technologies Enhancing Links and Linked data for Archaeological Resources) takes the process a step further by simplifying the job of expressing excavation data in CRM ontology terms and then generating representations as linked data. The two projects demonstrate the effectiveness of semantic interoperability methods, coordinating data and vocabularies in a shared framework, and supporting the reuse of archaeological excavation data.

Citation

Tudhope, D., Binding, C., May, K., Jeffrey, S., & Vlachidis, A. (2011). A stellar role for knowledge organization systems in digital archaeology. Bulletin of the Association for Information Science and Technology,

Journal Article Type Article
Acceptance Date May 1, 2011
Publication Date Apr 1, 2011
Deposit Date Feb 6, 2018
Publicly Available Date Mar 28, 2024
Journal Bulletin of the Association for Information Science and Technology
Publisher Association for Information Science and Technology (ASIS&T)
Peer Reviewed Peer Reviewed
Keywords stellar role, knowledge organization systems, digital archaeology
Public URL https://uwe-repository.worktribe.com/output/964205