The Ariadne project aims to integrate and provide access to a vast array of archaeological datasets across Europe, enhancing interoperability and collaboration within the research community. Key objectives include addressing fragmentation, creating user-friendly interfaces, developing innovative tools for long-term data preservation, and fostering a new generation of researchers. Funded by the European Commission, the project emphasizes transnational access, training, and the use of advanced technologies, including semantic annotation and 3D visualization.

1. The ARIADNE interoperability framework, component architecture and registry service
Costis Dallas1,2,3 and Dimitris Gavrilis1
1 Digital Curation Unit-IMIS, Athena Research Centre 2 Department of Communication, Media and Culture, Panteion University 3 Faculty of Information, University of Toronto
{c.dallas,d.gavrilis}@dcu.gr
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2. ARIADNE
Advanced Research Infrastructure for
Archaeological Dataset Networking in Europe
•48 months
•24 partners
•17 work packages
•8.464.000 Euros
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3. What is ARIADNE about
•Very large number of digital datasets
–Various domains, periods, places
•Vast number of corpus available
•Bring together and integrate the existing archaeological research data infrastructures
–Compare
–Re-use
–Integrate into current research
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4. Objectives
•Community building
•Overcome fragmentation and provide interoperability
–Overcome linguistic barriers
–Address dataset interoperability
•Unified and homogeneous interfaces
–Provide a one-stop access point to Archaeological datasets
–Provide innovative tools for enriching content / visualizing content (2D/3D)
•Long-term preservation
–Also include “grey literature” primary data
•Development of innovative tools and services
–Multilingual searching
–Improved Conceptual Reference Model
•Creating a new generation of researchers
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5. Dataset Integration
•Extend the integration of datasets:
–Geographic extent
–Different languages
•Standardization through CIDOC-CRM ontology
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6. Addressing Complexity
•Special work package dedicated in extending CIDOC-CRM so that it can handle complex entities and relations.
–Capture structural similarities
–Capture functional similarities
–Provide tools for reasoning
•Work in a mixed environment
–Legacy datasets
–Integrate existing datasets
–Variable complexity
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7. Bibliography
•Bring-in existing bibliography
–Grey literature
•NLP services
–Mine texts (e.g. grey literature)
–Information extraction
–Automatic classification
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8. Interoperability Framework
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Interoperability Layer
Datasets
Vocabularies
Metadata
Collections
IPR
Services
Access/Admin API
Ingest
Annotate
Enrich
. . .
External Sources
Interoperability Services
Repository Services
Reasoning

9. Interoperability Framework
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Interoperability Layer
Datasets
Vocabularies
Metadata
Collections
IPR
Services
Access/Admin API
Ingest
Annotate
Enrich
. . .
External Sources
Repository Services
Interoperability Services
Reasoning

10. Registry Catalog
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Dataset
Catalogs
1:N
Metadata Struct.
Record Struct.
Vocabularies
Concepts
1:N
Elements
1:N

11. Registry Catalog
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Dataset
Catalogs
1:N
Metadata Struct.
Record Struct.
Vocabularies
Concepts
1:N
Elements
1:N
CRM

12. Registry Workflow
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mapping
temporary storage
ingest
repository
revisions
aggregations
identity
version control
other criteria
export
harvester
ARIADNE Linked Data Cloud
Metadata providers
Original metadata
(for: literature, monuments, geo- data, scientific datatsets, images, 3D)
OAI–PMH provider
Import/Web

13. Services
•Authentication / authorization
•Ingestion
•Indexing / retrieval
•Resource discovery
•Semantic annotation and linking
•Visualization (3D/VR)
•Repository services
•Long-term preservation services
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14. Networking
•ARIADNE gives special focus on Transnational Access and Training.
–Enable users to co-work with experts
–Allow effective use of the research infrastructure
–Support innovative investigations
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ARIADNE is a project funded by the European Commission under the Community’s Seventh Framework Programme, contract no. FP7-INFRASTRUCTURES-2012-1-313193.
The views and opinions expressed in this presentation are the sole responsibility of the authors and do not necessarily reflect the views of the European Commission.