This document summarizes a presentation on producing and using linked geospatial data for archaeological research. It discusses how geospatial semantics and linked geospatial data can support complex archaeological research questions. It provides examples of producing linked data from archaeological datasets and using it through spatially-enabled triplestores and GeoSPARQL queries. Case studies are presented on producing linked data from a colonization of Britain dataset and extending an archaeological ontology with geospatial properties. The goal of the GSTAR project is to develop techniques and tools for answering real-world archaeological research questions through linked and geospatial data.
21st Century Geospatial #HistEnv Data ManagementPaul Cripps
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.
21st Century Geospatial #HistEnv Data ManagementPaul Cripps
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.
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
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.
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
Comparing and matching archaeological excavation data for integration in onto...ariadnenetwork
Presentation by Anja Masur and Keith May
OAW ( Austrian Academy of Sciences).
OREA (Institute for Oriental and European Archaeology).
English Heritage;
University of South Wales
Full-day session on archaeological infrastructures and services at the 18th Cultural Heritage and New Technologies (CHNT) conference
Vienna, Austria
11th -13th November 2013
INRAP is one of the biggest European institutions in charge of unmovable archaeological heritage. Although centralised, INRAP is so big that a lot of diversity in terms of standards and tools existed. Therefore, ARIADNE was very helpful for Kai, Amala and their co-workers to apply some of the ARIADNE’s tools and approaches to INRAP. One of the top achievements of INRAP due to ARIADNE was ‘changing the culture of sharing’.
The EPOS Thematic Core Service (TCS) GNSS Data and Products focuses on developing an open source platform to store and disseminate data and metadata from GNSS stations operating in Europe. It provides access to an integrated European network of data providers through an e-infrastructure (with web interface) to disseminate the continuous GNSS data from existing Research Infrastructures.
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
From the CNI Fall 2014 conference in Washington:
http://www.cni.org/topics/digital-libraries/developments-in-digital-repositories/
The National Library of Wales has developed a large number of digital resources (including newspapers, archives, manuscripts and photographs) that are freely available as a national digital public library for Wales. Development of this material has involved research and innovation in all aspects of the digital life cycle, and development of an underlying digital infrastructure, to support the creation of open and sustainable digital collections that can be used, and re-used, by the widest range of stakeholders. Central to this has been the development of digital content in collaboration with national and international partners. This presentation will discuss this national context for Cynefin, a recent project developed in collaboration with the Archives and Records Council Wales (ARCW) and funded by the UK’s Heritage Lottery Fund. The project will digitize over a thousand tithe maps covering 95% of Wales between the period 1838 and 1947. The project has explored new approaches to crowd sourcing to geo locate the tithe maps and transcribe related apportionments, and also to develop links between content in the collections, linking location, ownership, land use and value. The project has also had to find innovative ways to digitize large tithe maps, including the use of an automated tripod head originally developed to capture panoramic landscapes and the construction of a specifically designed wall to ensure a consistent horizontal distance from the camera. The digital images have been ingested into a Fedora repository and shared using the IIIF standard. The crowd-sourcing element will be released to the public at the beginning of November 2014 and the initial results of the uptake and engagement of volunteers will be discussed in the presentation. The digital preservation of the tithe maps, apportionments and the crowd-sourced data will present future challenges, and approaches to these issues will also be discussed. This project is a potential model for other institutions to leverage the resources of the crowd to produce a useful and enduring digital humanities resource.
http://chicagocollectionsconsortium.org/
http://cynefinblog.archiveswales.org.uk/?p=195
http://welshnewspapers.llgc.org.uk/en/home
http://cymru1914.org/en
Maria Theodoridou Semantic Integration Experimentsariadnenetwork
Presentation given by Maria Theodoridou of FORTH-ICS at the ARIADNE winterschool on experiments that have been carried out within ARIADNE to improve the interoperability and re-usability of archaeological datasets. The CIDOC-CRM with a set of extensions has been used as a reference model within ARIADNE.
Deploy of CENIEH’s new institutional repositoryariadnenetwork
Presentation given by María José De Miguel Del Barrio and Javier Valladolid Aguinaga of CENIEH at the ARIADNE winter school about the deployment of CENIEH’s new institutional repository. The presentation introduces the research carried out by CENIEH and the collections that are held, and the work to develop an institutional repository to integrate diverse datasets.
Archaeological Heritage in the management and information system of the Andal...ariadnenetwork
Presentation given by Maria Victoria Madrid and Pilar Mondéjar of Andalusian Institute of Historical Heritage (IAPH) at the ARIADNE winter school. The presentation describes the information system used by IAPH, how it was developed, how it brings together information from different organisations in the region and the information contained about the archaeological heritage of Andalusia.
Pieterjan Deckers - Medea an online platform for recording metal-detected findsariadnenetwork
Presentation given by Pieterjan Deckers of the Vrije Universiteit Brussel at the ARIADNE winter school about MEDEA, an online platform for recording metal-detected finds. The presentation describes the background to the project and its approach.
Presentation at the New England Archivists conference held in Portsmouth, NH on March 21, 2014 regarding the role of project archivists in innovation initiatives
On June 2014 an online survey has been launched* to collect information about the need for automatic large-scale assessment of building energy behaviour, based on “location” information (geodata) available from public registers (e.g. cadastre, urban planning data etc.).
* http://snipurl.com/energy-mapping-survey
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
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.
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
Comparing and matching archaeological excavation data for integration in onto...ariadnenetwork
Presentation by Anja Masur and Keith May
OAW ( Austrian Academy of Sciences).
OREA (Institute for Oriental and European Archaeology).
English Heritage;
University of South Wales
Full-day session on archaeological infrastructures and services at the 18th Cultural Heritage and New Technologies (CHNT) conference
Vienna, Austria
11th -13th November 2013
INRAP is one of the biggest European institutions in charge of unmovable archaeological heritage. Although centralised, INRAP is so big that a lot of diversity in terms of standards and tools existed. Therefore, ARIADNE was very helpful for Kai, Amala and their co-workers to apply some of the ARIADNE’s tools and approaches to INRAP. One of the top achievements of INRAP due to ARIADNE was ‘changing the culture of sharing’.
The EPOS Thematic Core Service (TCS) GNSS Data and Products focuses on developing an open source platform to store and disseminate data and metadata from GNSS stations operating in Europe. It provides access to an integrated European network of data providers through an e-infrastructure (with web interface) to disseminate the continuous GNSS data from existing Research Infrastructures.
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
From the CNI Fall 2014 conference in Washington:
http://www.cni.org/topics/digital-libraries/developments-in-digital-repositories/
The National Library of Wales has developed a large number of digital resources (including newspapers, archives, manuscripts and photographs) that are freely available as a national digital public library for Wales. Development of this material has involved research and innovation in all aspects of the digital life cycle, and development of an underlying digital infrastructure, to support the creation of open and sustainable digital collections that can be used, and re-used, by the widest range of stakeholders. Central to this has been the development of digital content in collaboration with national and international partners. This presentation will discuss this national context for Cynefin, a recent project developed in collaboration with the Archives and Records Council Wales (ARCW) and funded by the UK’s Heritage Lottery Fund. The project will digitize over a thousand tithe maps covering 95% of Wales between the period 1838 and 1947. The project has explored new approaches to crowd sourcing to geo locate the tithe maps and transcribe related apportionments, and also to develop links between content in the collections, linking location, ownership, land use and value. The project has also had to find innovative ways to digitize large tithe maps, including the use of an automated tripod head originally developed to capture panoramic landscapes and the construction of a specifically designed wall to ensure a consistent horizontal distance from the camera. The digital images have been ingested into a Fedora repository and shared using the IIIF standard. The crowd-sourcing element will be released to the public at the beginning of November 2014 and the initial results of the uptake and engagement of volunteers will be discussed in the presentation. The digital preservation of the tithe maps, apportionments and the crowd-sourced data will present future challenges, and approaches to these issues will also be discussed. This project is a potential model for other institutions to leverage the resources of the crowd to produce a useful and enduring digital humanities resource.
http://chicagocollectionsconsortium.org/
http://cynefinblog.archiveswales.org.uk/?p=195
http://welshnewspapers.llgc.org.uk/en/home
http://cymru1914.org/en
Maria Theodoridou Semantic Integration Experimentsariadnenetwork
Presentation given by Maria Theodoridou of FORTH-ICS at the ARIADNE winterschool on experiments that have been carried out within ARIADNE to improve the interoperability and re-usability of archaeological datasets. The CIDOC-CRM with a set of extensions has been used as a reference model within ARIADNE.
Deploy of CENIEH’s new institutional repositoryariadnenetwork
Presentation given by María José De Miguel Del Barrio and Javier Valladolid Aguinaga of CENIEH at the ARIADNE winter school about the deployment of CENIEH’s new institutional repository. The presentation introduces the research carried out by CENIEH and the collections that are held, and the work to develop an institutional repository to integrate diverse datasets.
Archaeological Heritage in the management and information system of the Andal...ariadnenetwork
Presentation given by Maria Victoria Madrid and Pilar Mondéjar of Andalusian Institute of Historical Heritage (IAPH) at the ARIADNE winter school. The presentation describes the information system used by IAPH, how it was developed, how it brings together information from different organisations in the region and the information contained about the archaeological heritage of Andalusia.
Pieterjan Deckers - Medea an online platform for recording metal-detected findsariadnenetwork
Presentation given by Pieterjan Deckers of the Vrije Universiteit Brussel at the ARIADNE winter school about MEDEA, an online platform for recording metal-detected finds. The presentation describes the background to the project and its approach.
Presentation at the New England Archivists conference held in Portsmouth, NH on March 21, 2014 regarding the role of project archivists in innovation initiatives
On June 2014 an online survey has been launched* to collect information about the need for automatic large-scale assessment of building energy behaviour, based on “location” information (geodata) available from public registers (e.g. cadastre, urban planning data etc.).
* http://snipurl.com/energy-mapping-survey
"SPARQL Cheat Sheet" is a short collection of slides intended to act as a guide to SPARQL developers. It includes the syntax and structure of SPARQL queries, common SPARQL prefixes and functions, and help with RDF datasets.
The "SPARQL Cheat Sheet" is intended to accompany the SPARQL By Example slides available at http://www.cambridgesemantics.com/2008/09/sparql-by-example/ .
How to identify the correct Master Data subject areas & tooling for your MDM...Christopher Bradley
1. What are the different Master Data Management (MDM) architectures?
2. How can you identify the correct Master Data subject areas & tooling for your MDM initiative?
3. A reference architecture for MDM.
4. Selection criteria for MDM tooling.
chris.bradley@dmadvisors.co.uk
Linked Statistical Data: does it actually pay off?Oscar Corcho
Invited keynote at the ISWC2015 Workshop on Semantics and Statistics (SemStats 2015). http://semstats.github.io/2015/
The release of the W3C RDF Data Cube recommendation was a significant milestone towards improving the maturity of the area of Linked Statistical Data. Many Data Cube-based datasets have been released since then. Tools for the generation and exploitation of such datasets have also appeared. While the benefits for the usage of RDF Data Cube and the generation of Linked Data in this area seem to be clear, there are still many challenges associated to the generation and exploitation of such data. In this talk we will reflect about them, based on our experience on generating and exploiting such type of data, and hopefully provoke some discussion about what the next steps should be.
The Linked Map project is part of the FP7 PlanetData project (http://planet-data.eu/), whose aim is to help organisations to get their big amounts of data exposed online in a useful form with quality. Regarding to this goal and as demonstration of the LMS technology (a transparent semantic proxy for WMS 1.3.0), the project Linked Map has developed a Web platform (http://linkedmap.unizar.es/crowdsourcing-platform/). This platform enables users to assess the quality of an automatic integration of INSPIRE data and Volunteer Geographic Information (VGI). The platform uses a LMS instance. This demonstration involves an experiment that combines in a meaningful way a big INSPIRE dataset that contains data from Annex I and Annex III themes (BCN/BTN25) with VGI data (OpenStreetMap).
The Linked Map project was developed by IAAA Lab (Universidad Zaragoza) and GeoSpatiumLab. These slides were presented at JIIDE 2014 (Lisbon)
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
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.
WORLDMAP: A SPATIAL INFRASTRUCTURE TO SUPPORT TEACHING AND RESEARCH (BROWN BA...Micah Altman
The WorldMap platform http://worldmap.harvard.edu is the largest open source collaborative mapping system in the world, with over 13,000 map layers contributed by thousands of users from Harvard and around the world. Researchers may upload large spatial datasets to the system, create data-driven visualizations, edit data, and control access. Users may keep their data private, share it in groups, or publish to the world.
The user base is interdisciplinary, including scholars from the humanities, social sciences, sciences, public health, design, planning, etc. All are able to access, view, and use one another’s data, either online, via map services, or by downloading.
Current work is underway to create and maintain a global registry of map services and take us a step closer to one-stop-access for public geospatial data. Another project is working on tools to support the visualization of spatial datasets with over a billion features. Current collaborations are underway with groups inside Harvard, such as Dataverse, HarvardX, and various departments, and with groups outside Harvard, such as Cornell University and the University of Pennsylvania. Major additional contributors to the underlying source code include the WorldBank, the U.S. State Department, and the United Nations.
The source code for the WorldMap platform is available on GitHub https://github.com/cga-harvard/cga-worldmap.
Location: E25-202
Discussant: Ben Lewis is system architect and project manager for WorldMap, an open source infrastructure that supports collaborative research centered on geospatial information. Before joining Harvard, Ben was a project manager with Advanced Technology Solutions of Pennsylvania, where he led the company in adopting platform independent approaches to GIS system development. Ben studied Chinese at the University of Wisconsin and has a Masters in Planning from the University of Pennsylvania. After Penn, Ben helped start the GIS Lab at U.C. Berkeley, founded the GIS group for transportation engineering firm McCormick Taylor, and coordinated the Land Acquisition Mapping System for South Florida Water Management District. Ben is especially interested in technologies that lower the barrier to spatial technology access.
Information Science Brown Bag talks, hosted by the Program on Information Science, consists of regular discussions and brainstorming sessions on all aspects of information science and uses of information science and technology to assess and solve institutional, social and research problems. These are informal talks. Discussions are often inspired by real-world problems being faced by the lead discussant.
Achille Felicetti "Introduction to the Ariadne winter school and to the ARIAD...ariadnenetwork
This presentation, by Achille Felicetti of PIN, gives an introduction to the ARIADNE winter school, to the ARIADNE research infrastructure and to the integration of archaeological datasets into the infrastructure. The process of integrating diverse datasets using the ARIADNE Catalogue Data Model to provide a high level description and the strategies to support retrieval by subject, period and map location.
Linked Open Data and The Digital Archaeological Workflow at the Swedish Natio...Marcus Smith
A presentation of two aspects of the linked open data work ongoing at the Swedish National Heritage Board (Riksantikvarieämbetet): Swedish Open Cultural Heritage (SOCH/K-samsök) and the Digital Archaeological Process (DAP).
Delivered at the Smithsonian, Washington, DC, 2014-11-10
Text Analytics & Linked Data Management As-a-ServiceMarin Dimitrov
slides from the talk on "Text Analytics & Linked Data Management As-a-Service with S4" from the ESWC'2015 workshop on Semantic Web Enterprise Adoption & Best Practices
full paper available at http://2015.wasabi-ws.org/papers/wasabi15_1.pdf
Mountain West Digital Library as a Service Hub for the Digital Public Library...Sandra McIntyre
Webinar from the Mountain West Digital Library
Sandra McIntyre, MWDL Director
Rebekah Cummings, MWDL Assistant Director/Outreach Librarian
The Mountain West Digital Library (MWDL) provides a central search portal to over 800,000 digital resources from memory institutions in Utah, Nevada, Idaho, Arizona, and Hawaii. As a program of the Utah Academic Library Consortium for the last twelve years, MWDL brings together 122 partners, including academic libraries, public libraries, archives, museums, historical societies, and government agencies, to share expertise and resources for digitization, hosting, and aggregated search. As one of the first six Service Hubs to the Digital Public Library of America, MWDL provides the on-ramp for DPLA participation to memory institutions in the Mountain West.
Sandra and Rebekah will talk about how MWDL became a Service Hub for the DPLA and what being a Service Hub entails. They will also discuss upcoming MWDL/DPLA announcements and events such as the digitization mini-contracts program and the DPLA Community Representatives program.
Similar to From interoperable to interoperating Geosemantic resources; Practical examples of producing and using Linked Geospatial Data (LGD) (20)
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/
Visibility analysis in the Stonehenge and Avebury World Heritage SitePaul Cripps
The results of some work I did whilst working for English Heritage, to update the visibility analysis in the Stonehenge & Avebury World Heritage Site GIS. The analysis has subsequently been published as part of the WHS Management Plan.
Pathways, Perception and the development of PlacePaul Cripps
Computational approaches to movement and perception of landscape in prehistory.
Building on my masters work, an initial presentation having just started my PhD
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From interoperable to interoperating Geosemantic resources; Practical examples of producing and using Linked Geospatial Data (LGD)
1. GSTAR – Computer Application & Quantitative Methods in Archaeology 2015 – Siena, March-April 2015
From interoperable to
interoperating Geosemantic
resources
Paul Cripps
University of South Wales,
Trefforest, UK
• Hypermedia Research Group
• Geographic Information Systems
(GIS) Research Group
Archaeogeomancy, Salisbury, UK
http://gstar.archaeogeomancy.net/
PracticalexamplesofproducingandusingLinked
GeospatialData(LGD)
Douglas Tudhope
University of South Wales,
Trefforest, UK
• Hypermedia Research Group
2. GSTAR – Computer Application & Quantitative Methods in Archaeology 2015 – Siena, March-April 2015
Introduction
• Background
• Geospatial Semantics
• Linked Geospatial Data (LGD)
• LGD for Archaeological Research
• GSTAR
• Producing LGD
• Using LGD
• Case Study:
• Colonisation of Britain
• Case Study:
• CRMEHgeo
• Interoperable
• Interoperating
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3. GSTAR – Computer Application & Quantitative Methods in Archaeology 2015 – Siena, March-April 2015
Geospatial Semantics
• “…research area combining Geographic
Information Science (GIScience), spatial
databases, cognitive science, Artificial
Intelligence (AI) and the Semantic Web”
• Janowicz, K. et al., 2012.
• Concept of Linked Geospatial Data (LGD)
as means of expressing spatial
information
4. GSTAR – Computer Application & Quantitative Methods in Archaeology 2015 – Siena, March-April 2015
Linked Geospatial Data
• LD including spatial components
• Various forms, methods, approaches:
• Suit different use cases
• ‘Simple’ database, textual, LD approaches
• More complex GIS driven approaches
• Major research area
• W3C + OGC collaboration
• Semantic Web / Linked Data community
• Geospatial community
5. GSTAR – Computer Application & Quantitative Methods in Archaeology 2015 – Siena, March-April 2015
Linked Geospatial Data
• Simple LGD:
• Placenames
• Gazetteers
• eg Plaiedes, Geonames, Ordnance Survey
• Leverage Linked Data approaches
• Coordinates ie point locations
• Numbers, text
• Leverage numeric approaches
• Mapping as points, markers
7. GSTAR – Computer Application & Quantitative Methods in Archaeology 2015 – Siena, March-April 2015
LGD for Archaeological Research
• Real-world Archaeological Research
Questions can be complex:
• “Show me a distribution density plot for each
Parish in my Study Area of all object records by
type from prehistoric sites of type barrow
within 500m of a higher than average density
of worked flint”
• Currently not easy to do…
• Disparate sources, including Linked Data
• Semantic, Numeric, Spatial
8. GSTAR – Computer Application & Quantitative Methods in Archaeology 2015 – Siena, March-April 2015
GSTAR
• GeoSemantic Technologies for
Archaeological Research
• Doctoral research project
• Due for completion April 2016
• Building on:
• core CIDOC CRM
• CRMEH extension
• GeoSPARQL
9. GSTAR – Computer Application & Quantitative Methods in Archaeology 2015 – Siena, March-April 2015
GSTAR
• Investigating:
• Production of Linked (Geospatial) Data
• Working with Linked (Geospatial) Data
• For Archaeological research purposes
• Use cases:
• Archaeological research scenarios (academic,
commercial, etc)
• How can LGD support real-world research processes?
• Using range of data from UK institutions
• Wiltshire Museums, Wiltshire Historic Environment
Record, English Heritage, Wessex Archaeology,
Archaeology Data Service
11. GSTAR – Computer Application & Quantitative Methods in Archaeology 2015 – Siena, March-April 2015
Producing LGD
• Leverage existing ontologies:
• To add place identifiers
• Placenames, UIDs, Coordinates
• CIDOC CRM: Place Appellation identifies Place
• To add depictions
• Geometries
• GeoSPARQL: Feature has Geometry (asWKT,
asGML)
• CSV, rDBMS, shp, gdb, xml pipelines
• RDF, Turtle
• Triplestore
12. GSTAR – Computer Application & Quantitative Methods in Archaeology 2015 – Siena, March-April 2015
Using LGD
• Growing number of tools, platforms
• Data storage
• Processing
• Visualisation
• Spatially enabled triple stores
• eg Parliament, Oracle, etc
• Web Services to handle data
• Libraries for processing, conversions,
parsing, mapping, etc
13. GSTAR – Computer Application & Quantitative Methods in Archaeology 2015 – Siena, March-April 2015
Using LGD – query
• Query using SPARQL
• Query using GeoSPARQL
• Extension of SPARQL; same syntax
• Compliant endpoints
• Wrappers, APIs, etc
• Maps!
14. GSTAR – Computer Application & Quantitative Methods in Archaeology 2015 – Siena, March-April 2015
Using LGD – results
• Very flexible; many options
• Not always so straightforward…
• Bigger Toolbox: LD stack + FOSS webgis
stack
• Ontologies, Java, Jena, Joseki/Fuseki, GeoTools, Jetty,
Parliament, OpenLayers, GeoServer, etc
• RDF, JSON, XML, etc for use in applications
• Use XSLT/HTML/CSS/PHP etc
• Text, tables, images, etc
• Use WFS/GML/WKT/GeoJSON etc
• Web Maps
15. GSTAR – Computer Application & Quantitative Methods in Archaeology 2015 – Siena, March-April 2015
Using LGD - GSTAR
• Working GeoSPARQL endpoint!
• Parliament
• Source data Linked Geospatial Data
• Interoperating geosemantic resources
• Ongoing: Building web page to house a
querying/browsing/results interface
• Linked Data widgets from HeritageData.org
• Map based interface
• Visualisations
• Capture query polygon GeoSPARQL query
16. GSTAR – Computer Application & Quantitative Methods in Archaeology 2015 – Siena, March-April 2015
CASE STUDY
Colonisation of Britain
17. GSTAR – Computer Application & Quantitative Methods in Archaeology 2015 – Siena, March-April 2015
Colonisation of Britain
• Digitisation project
• Undertaken by Wessex Archaeology
• Funded by English Heritage
• Deposited with Archaeology Data Service
• Linked Data component
• Outputs represented as Linked Data
• Uses CIDOC CRM
• Now online at ADS
18. GSTAR – Computer Application & Quantitative Methods in Archaeology 2015 – Siena, March-April 2015
Colonisation of Britain - geo
• Names of Places
• UK administrative areas
• Parish, County
• Incorporates Ordnance Survey Open
Data
• Processed using Open Refine + OS API
• Potential to extend further by adding
GeoSPARQL nodes
• eg to add actual Parish boundaries
19. GSTAR – Computer Application & Quantitative Methods in Archaeology 2015 – Siena, March-April 2015
ColonisationofBritainLinkedData
Wessex Archaeology, Archaeology Data Service
Linked Data resource built using STELLAR Toolkit including Ordnance Survey Open Data
20. GSTAR – Computer Application & Quantitative Methods in Archaeology 2015 – Siena, March-April 2015
CASE STUDY
CRMEHgeo
21. GSTAR – Computer Application & Quantitative Methods in Archaeology 2015 – Siena, March-April 2015
CRMEHgeo
• Integration of CRMEH + GeoSPARQL
• Uses RDFS subClass & subProperty
• CRMEH classes inherit from CIDOC CRM &
GeoSPARQL
• Basic, lightweight solution cf eg CRMgeo
• But more limited in scope
• Can also be applied to parent CRM
classes
• Integration of CIDOC CRM + GeoSPARQL
22. GSTAR – Computer Application & Quantitative Methods in Archaeology 2015 – Siena, March-April 2015
CRMEHgeo
crmeh:EHE0007 Context crmeh:EHE0022 ContextDepiction
crmeh:EHP4i is depicted by
geo:Feature geo:hasGeometry
rdfs:subClassOf rdfs:subPropertyOf
sf:Polygon
rdfs:isA
Instance of
WKT
Literal
geo:asWKT
RDFS GeoSPARQLSimple FeaturesCRMEH
crm:E53 Place
crm:E44 Place
Appellation
crm:p87 is
identified by
rdfs:subPropertyOf rdfs:subClassOfrdfs:subClassOf
CIDOC CRM
23. GSTAR – Computer Application & Quantitative Methods in Archaeology 2015 – Siena, March-April 2015
CRMEHgeo
• Applied to source data for GSTAR
• Sources QGIS, STELLAR Toolkit Parliament
• Museum Collections
• MODES XML RDF + WKT
• Historic Environment Records
• HBSMR Esri GDB, MS Access RDF + WKT
• Commercial Archaeology Unit
• Databases/GIS Txt, MS Access, Shp RDF +
WKT
24. GSTAR – Computer Application & Quantitative Methods in Archaeology 2015 – Siena, March-April 2015
CRMEHgeo
• Process designed for GSTAR
• Compilation of LGD resource to answer PhD
research questions
• Wider applicability
• Source repo STELLAR etc LGD repo
• Entirely FOSS
• Scriptable, batchable
• Potential route to enable existing
resources…?
25. GSTAR – Computer Application & Quantitative Methods in Archaeology 2015 – Siena, March-April 2015
CONCLUSIONS
From Interoperable to Interoperating
26. GSTAR – Computer Application & Quantitative Methods in Archaeology 2015 – Siena, March-April 2015
Interoperable
• Include CoB data in OS web map apps
• eg Distribution plans: display artefact
densities by administrative area
• eg Location plans: show in resources regarding
artefact types where examples have been
found
• Data is online, licensed & accessible
• So interoperable
• no tech, political barriers to interoperating…
27. GSTAR – Computer Application & Quantitative Methods in Archaeology 2015 – Siena, March-April 2015
Interoperating
• GSTAR Demonstrator (in development)
• Data Layer complete
• Application Layers in progress
• Present a range of queries relating actual
use cases:
• Real world research questions
• Input from domain specialists
• Integrate multiple sources
• Inference: generation of relationships using spatial
components of sources
• Query via web map
• Present data via web map
28. GSTAR – Computer Application & Quantitative Methods in Archaeology 2015 – Siena, March-April 2015
Interoperating
• Investigating
archaeological research
questions
• Start with questions:
• eg Show me a distribution
density plot for each Parish
in Study Area of all object
records by object type from
prehistoric sites of type
barrow within 500m of a
higher than average density
of worked flint
• Express as Queries
• GeoSPARQL
• Visualise results, think, do
• Integration of cultural
heritage resources:
• Object Records from
Museum Collection
• Site location, dating and
classification from HER
• Fieldwalking data from
commercial contractor
• User Generated input
• Spatial operators
• Numeric operators
• Sources
• Web mapping APIs,
Linked Data APIs
30. GSTAR – Computer Application & Quantitative Methods in Archaeology 2015 – Siena, March-April 2015
Acknowledgements
• Thanks to:
• University of South Wales – funding, supervision, advice
• Archaeology Data Service – data from their archives
• Wessex Archaeology – data, photographs and images
• Wiltshire Council – access to the Historic Environment Record
(HER) data
• Wiltshire Museums – access to museum collections data
• Personal thanks
• Supervisors/Advisors: Doug Tudhope, Mark Ware, Alex Lohfink
• Research group: Ceri Binding, Andreas Vlachidis, Keith May
• Peers and colleagues: Michael Charno, Chris Brayne, Gerald
Heibel, David Dawson
• Image Credit
• Earthorama by spdorsey http://flic.kr/p/69C5QD