The document discusses the challenges of archaeological digital data management and proposes Linked Open Data (LOD) as a potential solution. It emphasizes the importance of open data standards, structured formats, and remote data linking to improve accessibility and interoperability of archaeological datasets. Additionally, it highlights specific projects, such as the Priniatikos Pyrgos, which utilize LOD principles to enhance research and data visualization.

1. Addressing the standards question in
Archaeological Digital Data Management using Linked Open Data

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archaeological
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standards
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it’s a problematic issue

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Linked Open Data
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#LinkedData
#OpenData
a workable middle-ground?

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Introducing a
practical implementation of LOD
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#linkedarc.net
Priniatikos Pyrgos dataset

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A brief history of research
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archaeological excavation producing
lost of digital data
no joined up thinking

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Dealing with a lack of standards
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5 Star Linked Open Data
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put your data online under an open license
make it structured (e.g. as an Excel file)
use non-proprietary formats (e.g. XML and not Excel)
use URIs to identify resources
link your data to external datasets

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LOD and archaeology
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1 LOD data is open
2 semantic transparency
3 promotes data linking
4 LOD data is live

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The RDF triple
#RDF

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A triple example
‘…the boy’s name is Tom…’
subject
predicate
object

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RDF representation
‘Tom’
label
http://example.com/rdf/boy100
@prefix example: <http://example.com/rdf/> .
example:boy100 rdfs:label “Tom” ;

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An archaeological LOD example
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The Emerald Friary

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An archaeological LOD example
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How to represent cup artefacts
digitally?

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Ceramic cup artefact as LOD
remote data linking

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An evolving knowledge network

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A quick recap
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the issue: the archaeology + standards issue
solution? the Linked Open Data middle ground
and now on to talking about linkedARC.net

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Exploring http://linkedarc.net

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Priniatikos Pyrgos: main project page

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Contexts datatable page

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Context 1 record page

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Links to images stored on Flickr

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Statistical analysis tool
using live remote RDF data

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linkedARC.net architecture #PythonCode

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Priniatikos Pyrgos on linkedARC.net #PriniatikosPyrgos

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Future linkedARC.net work
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1 more archaeological project datasets
2 more use of external vocabularies
3 Linked Open Data + geospatial data
4 visualising Linked Open Data

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Concluding remarks
the archaeological standards dilemma
constraint utilityV

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Concluding remarks
could Linked Open
Data be the solution?

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Concluding remarks
transparent raw data and metadata
linkable data
real-time linking to external datasets

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Thank you
Digital Arts and Humanities PhD programme
PRTLI funded
Dep. of Classics, Trinity College Dublin
Dr Christine Morris
The Priniatikos Pyrgos Research Project
Dr Barry Molloy, Dr Jo Day and Dr Barbara Hayden
Web: www.franklynam.com
www.linkedarc.net
Twitter: @flynam
Email: flynam@tcd.ie