Vlachidis, Andreas;
Metilli, Daniele;
(2023)
Semantic technologies for historical collections: A case study from the Sloane Lab Knowledge Base.
Presented at: London's Bite-sized Taxonomy Boot Camp, London, UK.
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Abstract
The founding collection of the British Museum is a rich area to explore how we can reconnect dispersed heritage connections using state of the art technologies. In the Sloane Lab, we aim to represent this vast cultural heritage collection made up of disparate objects. At the core of the Sloane Lab resides the Knowledge Base (KB), which provides a homogeneous data environment using formal semantics to allow data integration, semantic enrichment, and knowledge discovery across a disparate environment of resources. The most fundamental challenge of the KB is the provision of a suitable semantic metadata schema for unifying the catalogues and enabling the Knowledge Graph to facilitate resourceful query, visualisation and fact-finding. The Sloane Lab approach to the modeling of the collection is record-centric, meaning that the record is the central entity that we represent. Most museum datasets are object-centric but in our case this can lead to multiple descriptions of the same object that are conflicting with each other. The semantic representation of the Sloane Lab knowledge base is based on Semantic Web standards, in particular RDF, RDFS, and OWL, and our data model is built on top of the CIDOC CRM reference ontology. The presentation will provide a rich insight to the design and development of the Sloane Lab knowledge base, the modelling choices and priorities in relation to semantics and vocabularies and the range of challenges addressed in the process of aggregation in terms of data disparity, integration facility, conflicting information and inconsistency, uncertainty and data absence.
| Type: | Conference item (UNSPECIFIED) |
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| Title: | Semantic technologies for historical collections: A case study from the Sloane Lab Knowledge Base |
| Event: | London's Bite-sized Taxonomy Boot Camp |
| Location: | London, UK |
| Dates: | 21 June 2023 |
| Open access status: | An open access version is available from UCL Discovery |
| Publisher version: | https://www.taxonomybootcamp.com/London/2023/progr... |
| Language: | English |
| Keywords: | Semantic Web, Sloane Lab, CIDOC-CRM, Knowledge Bases, Knowledge Graphs |
| UCL classification: | UCL UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL SLASH UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL SLASH > Faculty of Arts and Humanities UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL SLASH > Faculty of Arts and Humanities > Dept of Information Studies |
| URI: | https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10189298 |
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