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Archaeological Data Hub and Framework

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 and serves as a hub for the publication of Linked Open Data (LOD) from individual and collaborative projects. The hub archaeology.link serves as a research framework and publishes research data, ontologies, associated research tools and web services for, for example, Linked Open Data technologies in the context of basic archaeological research carried out by LEIZA and its cooperation partners in joint projects. 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), and Linked Open Data / FAIRification tools such as Alligator, Academic Meta Tool (AMT) and re3dragon. The archaeology.link hub also includes projects that are strongly connected to the Wikidata community hub and includes bidirectional links. Connected Wikidata projects are for example Linked Open Samian Ware, African Red Slip Ware digital, ARS3D or NAVISone.

The archaeology.link hub has already been tested and used in various NFDI4Objects contexts. This includes application examples for semantic modeling, i.e. the modeling of Linked Open Data as Linked Open Samian Ware, in the ARS3D project, in a research project on subsistence in the 5th millennium BC, as an ontology in the Ceramic Typology Ontology (CeraTyOnt), community-driven thesari such as the maritime thesaurus from NAVISone as well as research and FAIRification tools for the semantic handling of relative chronologies such as TiGeR (Time Geospatial RDF) and Alligator (Allen Transformer). Both research tools enable the classification of so-called “Dated Sites” on the basis of commonly occurring material groups, taking into account a correspondence analysis.

The archaeology.link hub is being further developed at the Leibniz Centre for Archaeology (LEIZA) in the “Scientific IT, Digital Platforms and Tools” department, as well as in the permanent research area “Explorative Research and Method Development” as part of the “Digital Methodology in Archaeoinformatics” field of activity in the “Semantic Modeling and Knowledge Graphs” and “NFDI4Objects” projects.