A keynote presentation given at the Towards a Collaborative Strategy for sector information management (TACOS) seminar held at the University of York, May 2014
Geosemantic Tools for Archaeological ResearchPaul Cripps
Presentation given at the annual Postgraduate Researchers Presentation Day held at the University of South Wales Postgraduate Research Centre, Trefforest Campus.
Linked Geospatial Data for Archaeological Research Paul Cripps
Investigating Archaeological Research Questions using a Linked Data framework
A presentation given to the Avebury & Stonehenge Archaeological & Historical Research Group, May 2015.
GeoSemantic Technologies for Archaeological ResourcesPaul Cripps
The semantics of heritage data is a growing area of interest with ontologies such as the CIDOC-CRM providing semantic frameworks and exemplary projects such as STAR and STELLAR demonstrating what can be done using semantic technologies applied to archaeological resources. In the world of the Semantic Web, advances regarding geosemantics have emerged to extend research more fully into the spatio-temporal domain, for example extending the SPARQL standard to produce GeoSPARQL. Importantly, the use of semantic technologies, particularly the structure of RDF, aligns with graph and network based approaches, providing a rich fusion of techniques for geospatial analysis of heritage data expressed in such a manner.
This paper gives an overview of the ongoing G-STAR research project (GeoSemantic Technologies for Archaeological Resources) with reference to broader sectoral links particularly to commercial archaeology. Particular attention is paid to examining the integration of spatial data into the heritage Global Graph and the relationship between Spatial Data Infrastructure (SDI) and Linked Data, moving beyond notions of ‘location’ as simple nodes, placenames and coordinates towards fuller support for complex geometries and advanced spatial reasoning. Finally, the potential impacts of such research is discussed with particular reference to the current practice of commercial archaeology, access to and publishing of (legacy, big) data, and leveraging network models to better understand and manage change within archaeological information systems.
Ariadne Booklet 2016: Building a research infrastructure for Digital Archaeol...ariadnenetwork
Authors:
Kate Fernie (PIN and 2Culture Associates Ltd)
Franco Niccolucci (PIN)
Julian Richards (University of York)
Contributors:
Achille Felicetti, Ilenia Galluccio and Paola Ronzino (PIN),
Bruno Fanini (ITABC CNR)
Carlo Meghini, Matteo Dellepiane and Roberto Scopigno (ISTI CNR)
Dimitris Gavrilis (Athena Research Centre)
Douglas Tudhope (University of South Wales)
Elizabeth Fentress (AIAC)
Guntram Geser (Salzburg Research)
Holly Wright (University of York)
Johan Fihn (SND)
Maria Theodoridou (ICS Forth)
Dimitris Gavrilis and Eleni Afiontzi
Digital Curation Unit – IMIS, Athena Research Center
Johan Fihn and Olof Olsson
Swedish National Data Service
Achille Felicetti and Franco Nicollucci
PIN, Italy
Sebastian Cuy
German Archaeological Institute
EAA 2016, Vilnius, Lithuania
Session: Open Access and Open Data in Archaeology -
Following the ARIADNE Thread
Geosemantic Tools for Archaeological ResearchPaul Cripps
Presentation given at the annual Postgraduate Researchers Presentation Day held at the University of South Wales Postgraduate Research Centre, Trefforest Campus.
Linked Geospatial Data for Archaeological Research Paul Cripps
Investigating Archaeological Research Questions using a Linked Data framework
A presentation given to the Avebury & Stonehenge Archaeological & Historical Research Group, May 2015.
GeoSemantic Technologies for Archaeological ResourcesPaul Cripps
The semantics of heritage data is a growing area of interest with ontologies such as the CIDOC-CRM providing semantic frameworks and exemplary projects such as STAR and STELLAR demonstrating what can be done using semantic technologies applied to archaeological resources. In the world of the Semantic Web, advances regarding geosemantics have emerged to extend research more fully into the spatio-temporal domain, for example extending the SPARQL standard to produce GeoSPARQL. Importantly, the use of semantic technologies, particularly the structure of RDF, aligns with graph and network based approaches, providing a rich fusion of techniques for geospatial analysis of heritage data expressed in such a manner.
This paper gives an overview of the ongoing G-STAR research project (GeoSemantic Technologies for Archaeological Resources) with reference to broader sectoral links particularly to commercial archaeology. Particular attention is paid to examining the integration of spatial data into the heritage Global Graph and the relationship between Spatial Data Infrastructure (SDI) and Linked Data, moving beyond notions of ‘location’ as simple nodes, placenames and coordinates towards fuller support for complex geometries and advanced spatial reasoning. Finally, the potential impacts of such research is discussed with particular reference to the current practice of commercial archaeology, access to and publishing of (legacy, big) data, and leveraging network models to better understand and manage change within archaeological information systems.
Ariadne Booklet 2016: Building a research infrastructure for Digital Archaeol...ariadnenetwork
Authors:
Kate Fernie (PIN and 2Culture Associates Ltd)
Franco Niccolucci (PIN)
Julian Richards (University of York)
Contributors:
Achille Felicetti, Ilenia Galluccio and Paola Ronzino (PIN),
Bruno Fanini (ITABC CNR)
Carlo Meghini, Matteo Dellepiane and Roberto Scopigno (ISTI CNR)
Dimitris Gavrilis (Athena Research Centre)
Douglas Tudhope (University of South Wales)
Elizabeth Fentress (AIAC)
Guntram Geser (Salzburg Research)
Holly Wright (University of York)
Johan Fihn (SND)
Maria Theodoridou (ICS Forth)
Dimitris Gavrilis and Eleni Afiontzi
Digital Curation Unit – IMIS, Athena Research Center
Johan Fihn and Olof Olsson
Swedish National Data Service
Achille Felicetti and Franco Nicollucci
PIN, Italy
Sebastian Cuy
German Archaeological Institute
EAA 2016, Vilnius, Lithuania
Session: Open Access and Open Data in Archaeology -
Following the ARIADNE Thread
Integrating archaeological data: The ARIADNE Infrastructure, Achille Felicett...ariadnenetwork
This presentation by Achille Felicetti of PIN (Università degli Studi di Firenze, Prato) on the work by the ARIADNE infrastructure to integrating archaeological data was given as part of a workshop organised by Digital Humanities Austria. The workshop focussed on the pressing question of long-term preservation of digital data from various angles, central being user needs specific to the different fields of the Humanities. Felicetti introduced the ARIADNE research infrastructure, which has been funded by the EC's FP7 programme, to integrate archaeological research datasets from across Europe and support their uses by researchers.
Germany: ARIADNE - Success stories from partners and the research communityariadnenetwork
iDAI.vocab: a multilingual thesaurus
Presentation by Philipp Gerth
German Archaeological Institute (DAI), Germany
ARIADNE Final Event, Florence, 16 December 2016
The Effect of ARIADNE: A Success Story Why ARIADNE Counts ariadnenetwork
ARIADNE Final Event, Florence, 16 December 2016
These slides are also complimented by a series of short slides. "ARIADNE - Success stories from partners and the research community"
Austria: ARIADNE - Success stories from partners and the research communityariadnenetwork
Advanced data management & sharing
Presentation by Edeltraud Aspöck
Austrian Academy of Sciences (OAW), Institute for Oriental and European Archaeology (OREA), Austria
ARIADNE Final Event, Florence, 16 December 2016
Innovative methods for data integration: Linked Data and NLPariadnenetwork
Linked Data (LD) + Natural Language Processing (NLP)
Two technologies that open up new possibilities for semantic integration of archaeological datasets and fieldwork reports.
Overview
•Illustrative early examples
- a flavour of progress and challenges to date
•NLP of grey literature (English – Dutch)
•Mapping between multilingual vocabularies
Presentation given by Franco Niccolucci in Berlin at the "Facing the Future" conference, 21-22 Nov 2013.
ARIADNE's activities in the first 9 months have included networking, setting up special interest groups, planning summer schools, research and developing the first services. The paper introduces the ARIADNE interoperability framework and the ARIADNE Catalogue Model (which underpin the project's registry) and the research and services that are under development
http://www.ariadne-infrastructure.eu
How the ARIADNE Infrastructure will bring together and integrate the existing archaeological research data infrastructures so that researchers can use the various distributed datasets and new and powerful technologies as an integral component of the archaeological research methodology.
France: ARIADNE - Success stories from partners and the research communityariadnenetwork
Inrap: a path toward open and shared data
Presentation by Kai Salas Rossenbach
Institut National des Recherches Archéologiques Préventive, France
ARIADNE Final Event, Florence, 16 December 2016
Bulgaria: ARIADNE - Success stories from partners and the research communityariadnenetwork
Enhanced Archaeological Map of Bulgaria
Presentation by Nadezhda Kecheva
National Institute of Archaeology with Museum of the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, Bulgaria
ARIADNE Final Event, Florence, 16 December 2016
DRI Community Forum: Collection Focus - Transport Infrastructure Irelanddri_ireland
Presentation given by Rónán Swan, Head of Archaeology and Heritage at Transport Infrastructure Ireland, at the 2017 DRI Community Forum, discussing working with DRI and Discovery Programme to ingest archaeological reports from over 20 years of TII pre-road-building excavations.
Italy: ARIADNE - Success stories from partners and the research communityariadnenetwork
Expanding Fasti Online
Presentation by Elizabeth Fentress
Associazione Internazionale di Archeologia Classica (AIAC), Italy
ARIADNE Final Event, Florence, 16 December 2016
Developing common European archaeological concepts through extending the CIDO...ariadnenetwork
Presentation by Martin Doerr
Center for Cultural Informatics, Institute of Computer Science
Foundation for Research and Technology – Hellas
and
Gerald Hiebel
Center for Cultural Informatics, Institute of Computer Science
Foundation for Research and Technology – Hellas,
University of Innsbruck, AB Vermessung und Geoinformation
Full-day session on archaeological infrastructures and services at the 18th Cultural Heritage and New Technologies (CHNT) conference
Vienna, Austria
11th -13th November 2013
Natalie Harrower - DRI, RDA and Irelanddri_ireland
From "A National Approach to Open Research Data in Ireland", a workshop held on 8 September 2017 in National Library of Ireland, organised by The National Library of Ireland, the Digital Repository of Ireland, the Research Data Alliance and Open Research Ireland.
Integrating archaeological data: The ARIADNE Infrastructure, Achille Felicett...ariadnenetwork
This presentation by Achille Felicetti of PIN (Università degli Studi di Firenze, Prato) on the work by the ARIADNE infrastructure to integrating archaeological data was given as part of a workshop organised by Digital Humanities Austria. The workshop focussed on the pressing question of long-term preservation of digital data from various angles, central being user needs specific to the different fields of the Humanities. Felicetti introduced the ARIADNE research infrastructure, which has been funded by the EC's FP7 programme, to integrate archaeological research datasets from across Europe and support their uses by researchers.
Germany: ARIADNE - Success stories from partners and the research communityariadnenetwork
iDAI.vocab: a multilingual thesaurus
Presentation by Philipp Gerth
German Archaeological Institute (DAI), Germany
ARIADNE Final Event, Florence, 16 December 2016
The Effect of ARIADNE: A Success Story Why ARIADNE Counts ariadnenetwork
ARIADNE Final Event, Florence, 16 December 2016
These slides are also complimented by a series of short slides. "ARIADNE - Success stories from partners and the research community"
Austria: ARIADNE - Success stories from partners and the research communityariadnenetwork
Advanced data management & sharing
Presentation by Edeltraud Aspöck
Austrian Academy of Sciences (OAW), Institute for Oriental and European Archaeology (OREA), Austria
ARIADNE Final Event, Florence, 16 December 2016
Innovative methods for data integration: Linked Data and NLPariadnenetwork
Linked Data (LD) + Natural Language Processing (NLP)
Two technologies that open up new possibilities for semantic integration of archaeological datasets and fieldwork reports.
Overview
•Illustrative early examples
- a flavour of progress and challenges to date
•NLP of grey literature (English – Dutch)
•Mapping between multilingual vocabularies
Presentation given by Franco Niccolucci in Berlin at the "Facing the Future" conference, 21-22 Nov 2013.
ARIADNE's activities in the first 9 months have included networking, setting up special interest groups, planning summer schools, research and developing the first services. The paper introduces the ARIADNE interoperability framework and the ARIADNE Catalogue Model (which underpin the project's registry) and the research and services that are under development
http://www.ariadne-infrastructure.eu
How the ARIADNE Infrastructure will bring together and integrate the existing archaeological research data infrastructures so that researchers can use the various distributed datasets and new and powerful technologies as an integral component of the archaeological research methodology.
France: ARIADNE - Success stories from partners and the research communityariadnenetwork
Inrap: a path toward open and shared data
Presentation by Kai Salas Rossenbach
Institut National des Recherches Archéologiques Préventive, France
ARIADNE Final Event, Florence, 16 December 2016
Bulgaria: ARIADNE - Success stories from partners and the research communityariadnenetwork
Enhanced Archaeological Map of Bulgaria
Presentation by Nadezhda Kecheva
National Institute of Archaeology with Museum of the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, Bulgaria
ARIADNE Final Event, Florence, 16 December 2016
DRI Community Forum: Collection Focus - Transport Infrastructure Irelanddri_ireland
Presentation given by Rónán Swan, Head of Archaeology and Heritage at Transport Infrastructure Ireland, at the 2017 DRI Community Forum, discussing working with DRI and Discovery Programme to ingest archaeological reports from over 20 years of TII pre-road-building excavations.
Italy: ARIADNE - Success stories from partners and the research communityariadnenetwork
Expanding Fasti Online
Presentation by Elizabeth Fentress
Associazione Internazionale di Archeologia Classica (AIAC), Italy
ARIADNE Final Event, Florence, 16 December 2016
Developing common European archaeological concepts through extending the CIDO...ariadnenetwork
Presentation by Martin Doerr
Center for Cultural Informatics, Institute of Computer Science
Foundation for Research and Technology – Hellas
and
Gerald Hiebel
Center for Cultural Informatics, Institute of Computer Science
Foundation for Research and Technology – Hellas,
University of Innsbruck, AB Vermessung und Geoinformation
Full-day session on archaeological infrastructures and services at the 18th Cultural Heritage and New Technologies (CHNT) conference
Vienna, Austria
11th -13th November 2013
Natalie Harrower - DRI, RDA and Irelanddri_ireland
From "A National Approach to Open Research Data in Ireland", a workshop held on 8 September 2017 in National Library of Ireland, organised by The National Library of Ireland, the Digital Repository of Ireland, the Research Data Alliance and Open Research Ireland.
Connecting European Archaeology datasets: prospects and challengesCARARE
Presentation given by Kate Fernie at the Big Data in Archaeology conference in March 2019. The presentation covers the background to European initiatives to connect monument and building inventories with museum collection databases, introduces CARARE and its work to aggregate a diverse range of archaeological datasets for Europeana, the development of the CARARE metadata schema, the process of metadata mapping, the challenges and opportunities for normalising and enriching the provided metadata to increase its discoverability in the multilingual context of Europeana.
Birgit Schmidt: RDA for Libraries from an International Perspectivedri_ireland
From "A National Approach to Open Research Data in Ireland", a workshop held on 8 September 2017 in National Library of Ireland, organised by The National Library of Ireland, the Digital Repository of Ireland, the Research Data Alliance and Open Research Ireland.
Building a European Research Infrastructure for the Social Sciences: The Cons...UCD Library
Presentation given by Dr John B. Howard, University Librarian, University College Dublin Library, at the CONUL Annual Conference in Athlone, Ireland, May 30, 2017.
Sediment Experimentalist Network (SEN): Sharing and reusing methods and data ...hsuleslie
Presentation given to the Summer Institute for Earth Surface Dynamics (SIESD) 2014 at St. Anthony Falls Laboratory, University of Minnesota, about the Sediment Experimentalist Network (SEN). SEN is an EarthCube Research Coordination Network, whose goal is to integrate the efforts of sediment experimentalists and build a knowledge base for guidance on best practices for data collection and management.
The Dublinked Data Visualisation Competition was officially launched on Wednesday 19th March 2014, as part of the Dublinked Innovation Network’s second Data Visualisation event, held in NUI Maynooth. Speakers on the day included Andy Kirk (VisualisingData.com), Eoghan McCarthy (AIRO NUIM) and Oliver Mooney (GetBulb). The event received great turnout with over 50 people in attendance, of those in attendance skill sets ranged from data visualisation novice, enthusiast to expert. Read More via Dublinked.ie
Open Data in Archaeology, Julian D. Richardsariadnenetwork
Open Data in Archaeology, presentation by Julian D Richards given at the Opening the Past 2013 conference, Pisa, 13 June 2013
Introduction to Open Data in Archaeology, the benefits and challenges. The Archaeology Data Service is presented as a case study of the UK's national research data infrastructure alongside examples from other countries, such as EDNA in the Netherlands, SND in Sweden, IANUS in Germany, Open Context and tDAR in the United States, Sustainable Archaeology in Canada, and FAIMS in Australia. The development of international frameworks in Europe from ARENA to ARIADNE are described.
http://www.ariadne-infrastructure.eu
High-level Meeting & Workshop on Environmental and Scientific Open Data for Sustainable Development Goals in Developing Countries. Madagascar, 4-6 December 2017
Research into Practice case study 2: Library linked data implementations an...Hazel Hall
The research underlying this presentation explored the role that libraries play in the linked data context. Focusing on European national libraries and Scottish libraries, multiple data gathering methods and constant comparative analysis were applied in the study. Amongst the findings, a general lack of awareness within the library community of the Semantic Web and the implications of linked data was identified. At the same time, there is recognition that linked data augments the discoverability and enhances the interoperability of library data. The presentation will include recommendations for the application of the findings of this research in practice.
A University Technical College for Wiltshire; Specialising in Science and En...Paul Cripps
A presentation given by Clive Duggleby (General Manager, Tetricus Science Park) to Salisbury Cafe Scientifique, November 2012
See the Cafe Scientifique website for more information:
http://cafescientifiquesalisbury.org.uk/2012/11/wiltshire-utc/
Archaeological Computing Research Group (ACRG) Seminar: Digital Spatial Techn...Paul Cripps
Digital Spatial Technologies have become central to modern archaeological practice. There are a number of interrelated strands to this which can be broadly categorised as capture, management, analysis/interpretation, visualisation and dissemination.
Techniques and technologies used to capture spatial data include: Total Station Theodolites (TST), Terrestrial Laser Scanners (TLS), Airborne Laser Scanners (ALS) and Global Navigation Satellite Systems (GNSS); computational photography including Reflectance Transformation Imaging (RTI), Structure from Motion (SfM) and photogrammetry.
Allied with this are tools and techniques to support management, analysis, visualisation and dissemination including more robust, ontologically driven, semantically enabled data models and Archaeological Information Systems (AIS) to handle both spatial and spatially referenced digital data and all manner of visualisations and interfaces (2D, 3D, graphs, web, portals, etc) for resource discovery, analysis and dissemination.
Digital resources are being made accessible like never before, with spatiality forming a key component, opening up new potential with platforms such as Google Earth and Spatial Data Infrastructures (SDI) for research, public access and heritage management either here, now, or becoming possible, drawing on and breathing new life into archaeological archives and indices.
All of this combines to help us as archaeologists create richer, multi-vocal, data driven narratives and theoretical frameworks and ultimately better understand the past and convey this to a wider audience. Drawing on experiences from one of the UKs largest archaeological units as well as ongoing projects across the heritage domain in which I have participated or observed, this talk aims to give a personal view on where we as a discipline are at and some ideas for where we can go next.
Presentation given at the Computer Applications in Archaeology UK Chapter Meeting, April 2011, held at the University of Birmingham.
The subject is the use of terrestrial and airborne laser scanners in heritage contexts.
Survey in the new millennium: Tools for the 21st century archaeologistPaul Cripps
A talk given at Digital Past: New Technologies in Heritage, Interpretation and Outreach. RCHMW Seminar. A seminar organised to guide heritage managers, education and outreach officers, and museum and local government officers in Wales and further
afield through some of the newest technologies available for researching and promoting heritage sites. This was done through the medium of papers presented by key speakers who talked through practical examples where such technologies have been used, what their problems and experiences may have been and the practical outcomes for communities or heritage managers
To OO or not to OO? Revelations from defining an ontology for an archaeologic...Paul Cripps
A presentation given by Keith May and me at CAA 2004 held in Prato, Italy. The topic was a sub-project which emerged from the English Heritage Revelation project; the Ontological Modelling project. This project looked at a range of existing data models, paper forms, databases and other source information and through discussions with domain specialists, created a representation of the information archaeologists use based on the CIDOC Conceptual Reference Model (CRM).
Public Access through technology; Using archaeological computing to interact ...Paul Cripps
A presentation given at Strode College for students from the University of Plymouth, Truro College and Strode College , aimed at given them an overview on how technology is used to engage with the public using examples from Wessex Archaeology and other sources
Of Henges, Rock Art & Lasers; An application of Laser-Scanning techniques at ...Paul Cripps
A presentation given in May 2005 at the McDonald Institute for Archaeological Research, University of Cambridge, on behalf of the Stonehenge Laser Scan project team. The presentation was aimed at highlighting some of the results and well as the technologies used.
Thinking in bits; archaeological theory and computing, past, present and future.Paul Cripps
A presentation given at TAG 2008 at University of Southampton on the subject of the changing nature of archaeological computing and its relationship with archaeological theory and the broader discipline of archaeology
The use of Spatial Technologies and digital tools and techniques in ArchaeologyPaul Cripps
A presentation given the MSc students studying Archaeological Computing at the University of Southampton on the subject of spatial technologies in archaeology drawing on the tools and technologies used by Wessex Archaeology and other practitioners of archaeological computing, aimed at giving them an idea of what is and what can be done. Part of a CAA seminar series.
I’m on the train; shall I email you my coordinates…? Mobile Geographic Inform...Paul Cripps
A paper given at the IFA conference on the subject of mobile spatial technologies and their impact on archaeology. Part of the session entitled "‘I’m on the train!’ - new technologies and the historic environment: a practical guide for geeks, nerds and technophobes" organised by John Schofield, English Heritage.
Pathways through the Avebury Landscape; A study of spatial relationships asso...Paul Cripps
This project is an investigation into the spatial relationships associated with the
Beckhampton Avenue, Avebury, Wilts. through the Neolithic period; The study
region comprises the Beckhampton avenue and its environs. Notably, the study will
attempt to investigate dynamic spatial relationships, i.e. those associated with moving
around/through a landscape rather than from static viewpoints, as a means to shed
light on the position and development of the Beckhampton Avenue, which can be
seen as a formalised route, influencing movement. These relationships are to be
investigated by means of the concept of intervisibility using both the analytical
approach afforded by GIS techniques and a more subjective, reflexive approach
facilitated by an interactive three-dimensional model.
Pathways, Perception and the development of Place; Computational approaches t...Paul Cripps
Presentation given at the “Exploring Research” - The Faculty of Law, Arts and Social Science Conference, University of Southampton, Jun 7th 2005.
Based on presentation given at CAA 2005 held in Tomar, Portugal. Presenting my PhD research to a non-archaeological, non-technical audience.
The Amphora Project; an online resource for the study of Roman AmphoraePaul Cripps
The computing aspects of the Amphora project, presented on behalf of the project team (Simon Keay, David Williams, Penny Copeland, Jill Philips, Paul Cripps, Jo Gilham, Graeme Earl and Tony Austin).
The project is online at the Archaeology Data Service:
http://ads.ahds.ac.uk/catalogue/archive/amphora_ahrb_2005/
Archaeological tower blocks…? Computational and Theoretical ghettos
21st Century Geospatial #HistEnv Data Management
1. Towards a Collaborative Strategy for sector information management (TACOS), York, May 2014
21st Century
Geospatial #HistEnv
Data Management
Paul Cripps
University of South Wales, Trefforest, UK
• Hypermedia Research Unit
• Geographic Information Systems (GIS) Research Unit
Archaeogeomancy, Salisbury, UK
2. Towards a Collaborative Strategy for sector information management (TACOS), York, May 2014
Introduction
• Background
• Resources
• Problems
• Potential
• Strategy
• Issues
Earthorama by spdorsey http://flic.kr/p/69C5QD
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Background: GSTAR
• GeoSemantic Technologies for Archaeological Resources
• Aims & Objectives:
• To incorporate complex geospatial information into our
ontological models of heritage data
• Vector depictions: lines, polygons
• Place & Location: points
• Investigate advances in geospatial and geosemantic
approaches
• Application of geosemantics and Linked Geospatial Data
approaches to archaeological resources
• Integration of heterogeneous resources via spatial components of
heritage data
• Application of research questions across diverse heritage
resources
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Linked Geospatial Data; integrate
5. Towards a Collaborative Strategy for sector information management (TACOS), York, May 2014
Spatial entities
• Vector objects used in database
environments
• Transcriptions
• Aerial Photos
• Historic maps & plans
• Survey data
• Geophysics & Remote Sensing
• Landscape survey
• Sites and Monuments
• Land classifications
• Designations
• Events and Activities
• Interventions
• Surveys
• Excavated features
• Metadata: Scale, Resolution,
Precision, Accuracy, Source
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InterpretationofexcavationdatausingprojectGIS
Wessex Archaeology
Spatial component used to aid interpretation through mapping and spatial analysis
7. Towards a Collaborative Strategy for sector information management (TACOS), York, May 2014
Stonehenge&AveburyWorldHeritageSiteGIS
English Heritage
Wiltshire HER derived data plus aerial imagery
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ColonisationofBritainLinkedData
Wessex Archaeology, Archaeology Data Service
Linked Data resource built using STELLAR Toolkit including Ordnance Survey Open Data
9. Towards a Collaborative Strategy for sector information management (TACOS), York, May 2014
Resources: Local
• Historic Environment Records (HERs)
• Typically within Local Authorities
• MIDAS compliant structures
• Monuments
• Events
• Sources
• Many now use GIS of some type
• Not all…
• Points, lines, polygons
• Spatial and Temporal Scale & Resolution
• Variable
• Primarily to support NPPF
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Resources: National
• AMIE – archaeological sites and monuments
• National record maintained by English Heritage
• National Heritage List for England (NHLE)
• National record maintained by English Heritage
• Designated sites only
• Legally protected
• Scheduling: Area based land classification
• Listing: ‘point’ location of buildings
• Scotland
• RCAHMS, CANMORE
• Wales
• Welsh Trusts HER, RCAHMW, Archwilio
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Resources: Other
• Planning Authorities
• National Parks
• Tiers of government, shared
services
• Outsourced services
• Commercial companies
• Heritage trusts
• Infrastructure systems
• OASIS, Heritage Gateway
• Heritage and other
organisations
• National Trust
• Churches
• Defra
• PAS
• Subject specific resources
• Geophysics database
(English Heritage, ADS)
• Project archives
(Archaeology Data Service,
English Heritage)
• Britain from Above (EH,
RCAHMW, RCAHMS)
• Synthesis
• AIP
• Publications
• Grey Literature
• Monographs
• Research Frameworks
• Museum collections
• Disparate ‘digital’ ‘archives’
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Current problems
• Lots of geospatial
information!
• Duplication of data
• Overlaps
• Conflicts, versions
• Concordance
• Gaps
• Costly to maintain
• Exchange/Transfer
• Export Publish
Import paradigm…
• Formats & Systems;
interoperability
• Non-digital
• Software
• Difficult to use
• Quality
• Access
• Licensing
• Costs
• Spatial data as text
• County, Parish indices
• Coordinate precision
• Quality/Currency of
spatial indices
• ‘Archives’
• Dead trees vs live data
• Retention & Disposal
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Current problems
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Some possibilities…
Working with geospatial data
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Inferencing and (spatial) Indexing
Build indices using spatial inferencing across resources
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Enhance/Enrich
• Possible to augment resources
• Inferencing
• Reconciliation
• Open Refine
• Toolkit for working with ‘messy data’
• http://openrefine.org/
• Ordnance Survey reconciliation API
• http://data.ordnancesurvey.co.uk/docs/reconciliation
• Turns text (eg Parish, County) OS Open Data URIs
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Enhanced spatial search
Mediate queries using spatial semantics
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Aggregation
Each team maintain data and leverage technology to share effectively
National overview as snapshot/dynamic/versioned aggregation
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Potential
• Aligned resources
• Requirement: Persistent
Identifiers
• Linked Data not data
exchange/copying
• Aggregation not duplication
• Focus resources
• Share efforts
• Share data
• Shared infrastructure
• Better resource discovery,
access and retrieval
• Improved search; mediation
• This search boundary
• My search boundary
• HTML, KML, (geo)JSON, WKT, etc
• True spatial indices
• Inferencing
• Leverage standards for
interoperability:
• World Wide Web Consortium
(W3C)
• Open Geospatial Consortium
(OGC)
• MIDAS, CIDOC, Spectrum, etc
• Inspire
• Build on good bits of existing
infrastructure
• ADS archives
• Heritage Gateway
• Oasis (principals…)
• NHLE
• HBSMR
• Local maintenance
• Expertise
• HERs as spine
Make more of limited resources
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#HistEnv Spatial Data strategy
Who…?
• Curatorial
• Local, National
• Planning
• Local, National
• Legal
• Professional
• Contractors
• Consultants
• Academic
• Public
Focus on:
• User needs
• Responsibilities
• Resources
• Skills
• Funding
• Deadlines & Drivers
• Division of labour
• Share the load
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#HistEnv Spatial Data strategy
“We form like Voltron…”
Wu-Tang Clan
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#HistEnv Spatial Data strategy
• The Scottish experience
• SHED
• Scotland’s Historic Environment Data strategy
• “This joint venture between local and national bodies comprises
shared and linked digital records. It will be professionally
managed, continually updated, and accessible to all, ensuring the
greatest economic, social and cultural benefits for the people of
Scotland and beyond.”
• “There can be only one…” – Highlander
• Or not: Single definitive resource ruled out
• Opting for distributed, linked approach
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Potential issues; infrastructure
• Dependency on host
• Procurement policy
• Vendor lock in
• Support
• Not which GIS
software…
• …but which standards
• Compliance is key
• Government
procurement is moving
this way
• FOSS vs COTS
• License costs vs
development costs
• Total Cost of Ownership
• Cost Benefit Analysis
• User Needs
• Understanding &
awareness
• No LAMP here
• Massive potential for
geospatial heritage
data…
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Conclusions
• Make better use of digital spatial resources
• Efficiency
• Linking, sharing, collaborating
• Technology, infrastructure, skills, users
• Direct resources to content creation/enhancement
• Standards
• Industry
• Heritage
• Collaborative, workable, usable
• Standards again
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fin
• paul.cripps@southwales.ac.uk
• paul@archaeogeomancy.net
• @pauljcripps
• gstar.archaeogeomancy.net
• hypermedia.research.southwales.ac.uk
• gis.research.southwales.ac.uk
Editor's Notes
Vector objects used in database environments
Pre-ex features
Interventions
Post-ex assessment/analysis data
Multimedia – section drawings, photographs, hand drawn plans
Standalone resource
Based on HER data
Augmented with management data
Exchange/update protocols
Project archive
Includes Ordnance Survey BoundaryLine open data
Project datasets enriched using Open Refine + OS Reconciliation API