DocumentingthePast:ExtendingtheCIDOCCRMfamilytoArchaeology(CRMarcheo),Historic

Buildings(CRMba)andHistoricPlaces(CRMspace)

FrancoNiccolucci&AchilleFelicetti

VAST-LAB,PIN,UniversitàdegliStudidiFirenze,Italy

VAST-LABandCulturalHeritage• Developmentoftechnologies,toolsandstandardforthemanagementofCulturalHeritageinformation

•  Integrationandinteroperabilityoflegacyarchivesusingsemantictoolsandtechniques(ontologies,semantictools,linguisticresources)

• ARIADNEProject(http://www.ariadne-infrastructure.eu)

• Creationofanintegratedecosystemofarchaeologicalinformationtoguaranteeinteroperabilityamongdatacomingfromdifferentarchives

• ARIADNEPortal:todiscoverandaccess2millionarchaeologicalrecordsfrom15countriesin24languagesusingadvancedinterfaceshttp://portal.ariadne-infrastructure.eu

• PARTHENOSProject(http://www.parthenos-project.eu)• Clusterofresearchinfrastructurestointerconnectandharmoniseinformationcomingfromdifferent(butinterrelated)disciplines

• Humanities,CulturalHeritage,History,Archaeology

VAST-LABandtheCIDOCCRM• CIDOCCRM:identificationofrealworlditemsbyrealworldnames

• Observationandclassificationofrealworlditems

• Part-decompositionandstructuralpropertiesofConceptualandPhysicalObjects,Periods,Actors,PlacesandTimes

• Participationofpersistentitemsintemporalentities.

• Createsanotionofhistory:“world-lines”meetinginspace-time.

• Locationofperiodsinspace-timeandphysicalobjectsinspace

•  Influenceofobjectsonactivitiesandproductsandvice-versa• Referenceofinformationobjectstoanyreal-worlditem

CRMarchaeo:SupportingExcavationProcess•  Semanticencoding,exchange,interoperabilityandaccessofexistingarchaeologicaldocumentation

•  Startingfromstandardsandmodelsalreadyinusebynationalandinternationalculturalheritageinstitutions

•  ExcavationEventsandinvolvedactors(people,institutions)•  Natureandshapeofexistingstratificationsandsurfaces

•  Analysisofthehumanremainsorartifactsfoundwithinthestrata

•  Stratigraphicgenesisandmodifications,naturalphenomenaorhumaninterventionthatledtotheircreation

•  Chronologicalorderinwhichstratificationwasformed

• MaintainedbyVAST-LAB,PIN

• Moreinformation:http://www.cidoc-crm.org/crmarchaeo/

CRMba:BuiltArchaeologyDocumentation• Recognizethefunctionsofabuildinganditsevolutionovertheyears• Focusesonthemereologicalandmereo-topologicalrelationsbetweentheconstituentpartsandthewholestructure

•  Introducestheconceptsof“emptyspaces”and“spacefunctions”definedbyform

• Makesexplicittherelationsbetweenbuildingcomponentsfunctionalspaces,topologicalrelationsandconstructionphasesthroughtimeandspace

• Supportthedatingprocessthroughtheidentificationofthestratigraphicrelationshipbetweenvariousstratigraphicunits

• MaintainedbyVAST-LAB,PIN

• Moreinformation:http://www.cidoc-crm.org/crmba

“CRMspace”:IdentifyHistoricPlaces•  Investigationofhistoricalnamesandtheirrelationswithgeographicplaces

• Howtodealwithunknownorimaginaryplaces?

• TombofAlexandertheGreat

• Eldorado,Atlantis,EntrancetoHell…

• Pleiades:diachronicrepresentationofplacenamesovertime

• http://pleiades.stoa.org• Modernplacenamesresolutionstartingfromancientones

• Byzantium,Constantinople,Istanbul

• Differentidentitiesofthesameplace

• Athens:polisofancientGreece;capitalofmodernRepublicofGreece

Thankyou...•  FrancoNiccolucci&AchilleFelicetti

•  VAST-LAB,PIN,UniversitàdegliStudidiFirenze,Italy