PAN (Portable Antiquities of the Netherlands): Harnessing Geospatial Technology for the Enrichment of Archaeological Data

Vos, Daniella; Heeren, Stijn; Ruler, Niek van; Smallenbroek, Kiki; Lassche, Ronnie

doi:10.1553/giscience2018_02_s13

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“…It must publish them and provide mechanisms for integrating them with diverse apps in order to achieve this [93]. [94] demonstrated the PAN (Portable Antiquities of the Netherlands) specific custom web application. PAN's main goal is to document and publish archeological discoveries in private ownership online, notably metal items discovered by metal detectorists.…”

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Cultural Heritage Information Retrieval: Past, Present, and Future Trends

Ranjgar,

Sadeghi-Niaraki,

Shakeri

et al. 2024

IEEE Access

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Knowledge organization and development of better information retrieval techniques were of great importance from a very early time period in human history. The need has grown high for such systems with the advent of digitization and the web era. Computer systems and web have offered easier retrieval of information in almost no time. However, as the amount of data increased, these systems were not able to work well in terms of accuracy and precision of retrieval. Semantic Web concept was introduced to overcome the issue by converting the web of documents to a web of data. Semantic Web technologies makes data machine-understandable so that information retrieval can be more precise and accurate. The Cultural Heritage (CH) community, with the goal of preserving and dissemination of the historical information to people and society, is one of the first domains to adopt Semantic Web recommendations and technologies, which can provide interoperability between various organizations by creating a shared understanding in the community. The data in the CH domain differs widely with types and formats. Also, a lot of organizations and experts from various fields interact through different processes within this community. Due to the mentioned needs, the CH community employed Semantic Web technologies step by step along its evolution process for better knowledge management and a uniform understanding among the community. In this study, we present a comprehensive conceptual framework that spans cultural heritage, information modeling, and information retrieval. Our model addresses early solutions in knowledge organization systems, highlighting the evolution from classification systems and controlled vocabularies to the significance of metadata schemas. We delve into the limitations of traditional knowledge organization systems and the necessity of formal ontologies, particularly in the cultural heritage domain. The comparative analysis of CRM vs. EDM, ontology-based metadata interoperability, and ontology technologies elucidate our contributions to the field. This paper outlines the process from the initial steps of adopting Semantic Web technologies in the CH domain to the latest developments in CH information retrieval. In this paper, we also reviewed intelligent applications and services developed in the CH domain after establishing semantic data models and Knowledge Organization Systems. Finally, challenges and possible future research directions are discussed. The findings revealed that GLAMs (Galleries, Libraries, Archives, and Museums) are excellent and comprehensive sources of CH information. The CH community has put in a lot of time and effort to develop data models and knowledge organization tools; now it's time to use this valuable resource to construct smart applications that are still in their early phases. This could benefit the CH industry even more.

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confidence: 99%

Cultural Heritage Information Retrieval: Past, Present, and Future Trends

Ranjgar,

Sadeghi-Niaraki,

Shakeri

et al. 2024

IEEE Access

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“…Other countries faced similar challenges and adopted similar systems in response, including the Netherlands 1 . The Portable Antiquities of the Netherlands project () was established in 2016 after the Heritage Act legalized metal detection and consequently created a need for finds documentation (Vos et al 2018:14). PAN was developed by the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam and various other partners 2 .…”

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“…PAN's main public interface is a dynamic web application, developed with the programming frameworks AngularJS, Bootstrap, and Spring (Vos et al 2018:16), the contents of which are available in both Dutch and English. The website caters to two main visitor profiles: (1) general visitors, who can access and/or query the publicly available information; and (2) authorized users (e.g., metal detectorists, researchers), who require a log-in so that they can report finds and access publicly restricted data.…”

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“…The PAN reference type code connects to the linked data server, which houses the vocabularies used by PAN. Once a find is validated and receives a PAN reference type, the PoolParty REST API communicates linked information to the designated text fields of the PAN database (Vos et al 2018:19). This linked data architecture complies with the interoperable tenet of the FAIR standard for digital data (Heeren et al 2022:17).…”

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The Portable Antiquities of the Netherlands

Carpentier¹

2022

Adv. archaeol. pract.

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Overview The Portable Antiquities of the Netherlands (PAN) is an online system aimed at recording and documenting archaeological finds by the public. Since PAN launched in 2016, it has become an important data contributor to Dutch archaeology, amassing over 100,000 recorded finds. These data, mostly the result of metal detection, enable scholars to gain new insights and policy makers to make more informed decisions. This review describes the context in which PAN was established, along with its current structure and scope, before looking at its different components, including the underlying database and linked data reference collection. In a final section, the article briefly addresses some common issues inherent to public reporting programs and how PAN approaches these issues.

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“…It is not just in the UK that British policies on artefact hunting and the manner in which an attempt is made to mitigate the damage done as their result are seen as desirable. From the object-centred viewpoint, several outside observers have judged that something like the PAS is needed elsewhere too (Deckers et al 2016: 267;Vos et al 2018). Huth (2013 considers the UK's PAS a "resounding success [durchschlagender Erfolg]" and seems to consider it a "correct way to deal with artefact hunters".…”

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Some Aspects of the Collection-Driven Exploitation of the Archaeological Record in England and Wales

Barford¹

2020

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This paper addresses some issues relating to collection-driven exploitation of the archaeological record (artefact hunting) in England and Wales. It looks at who the collectors involved are and why they do it, how they go about finding and searching sites for collectables, and what they do with them. A brief overview of the UK online trade in dug-up antiquities is also given, and the response of British archaeology to the phenomenon. The effects of the introduction of new legislation (the 1996 'Treasure Act') together with a dedicated and centralised recording scheme for finds made by the public are discussed. The relationship between collecting and archaeological research, together with archaeological attitudes towards collectors are also explored, in particular the issue of the degree to which the recording of material voluntarily reported by artefact hunters creates useful archaeological data. It is shown that the manner by which this information has been collected severely limits its use for many archaeological purposes.

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PAN (Portable Antiquities of the Netherlands): Harnessing Geospatial Technology for the Enrichment of Archaeological Data

Cited by 6 publications

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Cultural Heritage Information Retrieval: Past, Present, and Future Trends

Cultural Heritage Information Retrieval: Past, Present, and Future Trends

The Portable Antiquities of the Netherlands

Some Aspects of the Collection-Driven Exploitation of the Archaeological Record in England and Wales

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