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Archaeological Data Hub and Framework

Responsible persons: Florian Thiery (LEIZA) / Allard W. Mees (LEIZA)

The archaeological hub archaeology.link is a collaborative data and research tool serving as a hub for publishing Linked Open Data (LOD) from individual and joint projects. As a research framework, archaeology.link publishes research data, ontologies, associated research tools, and web services for Linked Open Data technologies, particularly in the context of fundamental archaeological research conducted by LEIZA and its partners. This platform complements the LEIZA Archaeological Data Processing Web Service (ADP).

The archaeology.link hub includes Linked Open Research Data such as the Linked Archaeological Data Ontology (LADO), Linked Open Samian Ware, Linked Open African Red Slip Ware, Linked Open Ships / NAVISone Maritime Thesaurus (from the NAVISone project), as well as Linked Open Data and FAIRification tools like Alligator, Academic Meta Tool (AMT), and re3dragon. The hub also integrates projects closely linked to the community-driven Wikidata platform, featuring bidirectional links. Examples of connected Wikidata projects include Linked Open Samian Ware, African Red Slip Ware digital, ARS3D, and NAVISone.

archaeology.link has been tested and applied in various NFDI4Objects contexts. Applications include semantic modelling, such as the Linked Open Data modelling of Linked Open Samian Ware, the ARS3D project, a research initiative on subsistence in the 5th millennium BCE, and as an ontology within the Ceramic Typology Ontology (CeraTyOnt). Community-driven thesauri, such as the NAVISone Maritime Thesaurus, and research and FAIRification tools for the semantic handling of relative chronologies, like TiGeR (Time Geospatial RDF) and Alligator (Allen Transformer), are also part of the hub. These tools classify so-called “dated sites” based on co-occurring material groups and correspondence analyses. The results can be output as relative-chronological graphs.

The archaeology.link hub is developed at the Leibniz-Zentrum für Archäologie (LEIZA) within the department of “Scientific IT, Digital Platforms and Tools,” as well as the Dauerforschungsgebiet “Explorative Forschung und Methodenentwicklung” within the framework of the action field “Digital Methods in Computational Archaeology,” specifically in the projects “Semantic Modelling and Knowledge Graphs” and “NFDI4Objects”.