Ariadne

Abstract

Research e-infrastructures, digital archives and data services have become important pillars of scientific enterprise that in recent decades has become ever more collaborative, distributed and data-intensive. The archaeological research community has been an early adopter of digital tools for data acquisition, organisation, analysis and presentation of research results of individual projects. However, the provision of e-infrastructure and services for data sharing, discovery, access and (re-)use have lagged behind. This situation is being addressed by ARIADNE, the Advanced Research Infrastructure for Archaeological Dataset Networking in Europe. This EU-funded network has developed an e-infrastructure that enables data providers to register and provide access to their resources (datasets, collections) through the ARIADNE data portal, facilitating discovery, access and other services across the integrated resources. This paper describes the current landscape of data repositories and services for archaeologists in Europe, and the issues that make interoperability between them difficult to realise. The results of the ARIADNE surveys on users' expectations and requirements are also presented. The main section of the paper describes the architecture of the e-infrastructure, core services (data registration, discovery and access) and various other extant or experimental services. The ongoing evaluation of the data integration and services is also discussed. Finally, the paper summarises lessons learned, and outlines the prospects for the wider engagement of the archaeological research community in the sharing of data through ARIADNE.

Ontology-Mediated Historical Data Modeling: Theoretical and Practical Tools for an Integrated Construction of the Past

“…Recently, considerable efforts have been made in order to develop common standards to ease data exploitation, and to empower digital research in the fields of History, Language Studies, Cultural Heritage, Archaeology, and related fields in the domain of Social Sciences and Humanities (SSH). The already completed PARTHENOS project [18] was a beautiful example of them, and it hosted an archaeological experience of research infrastructure implementation called ARIADNE [19]. Through this archaeological data-standardization-based project and other subsequent experiences, the archaeological domain has developed data integration practices through metadata introduction by means of controlled vocabularies.…”

A Survey of Geospatial Semantic Web for Cultural Heritage

“…For the "where" pattern the spatial coordinates (longitude, latitude) in WGS_84 CRS have been used, whereas the information and a schema for encoding the information related to a "when" pattern have been facilitated in collaboration with a PeroidO 26 temporal gazetteer of historical periods. The portal itself has been developed using a PHP-based Laravel MVC (model-viewer-controller) frameworks and conceptual classes for archeological data have been implemented by CIDOC-CRM, and the above mentioned "who, where, what, when" paradigm information mapped into DCAT (data catalog) 27 vocabulary [47].…”

Publishing Archaeological Excavations at the Digital Turn

“…One proposed solution, with origins primarily in science communities, suggests the use of well described vocabularies of common terms, structured metadata explaining how the data was collected, and ontologies showing how different data categories and elements relate, in order to allow us to engage with data in its digital form. These suggestions for a formal knowledge and data modeling approach have been translated from the sciences into the digital humanities community, with an emphasis on ontologies to describe systems of knowledge (Kintigh 2006;Faniel et al 2013;Dallas 2015;Meghini et al 2017). Another proposed solution to bridging between data and synthesis is that of the 'data narrative' or 'data publication,' and this is the route A Mid-Republican House has pursued.…”