Semantic Technologies for Archaeology Resources: Results from the STAR Project

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Abstract

Outcomes from the STAR Project are presented. The underlying rationale is the need to widen access to archaeological datasets, which will allow third parties to cross search different datasets and investigate the basis for interpretations in the underlying data. The semantic technologies employed are based on standard representations of domain vocabularies and the underlying core ontology, an archaeological extension of the CIDOC CRM. Methods for extracting semantic RDF representations from the datasets are described, together with Natural Language Processing techniques for information extraction from a selection of OASIS grey literature. STAR web services and semantic search implementations are presented. The need for controlled terminology is emphasised. Illustrative results from the semantic search Demonstrator are discussed.
Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationProceedings 38th Annual Conference on Computer Applications and Quantitative Methods in Archaeology
EditorsF Contreras, M Farjas, F J Melero
Place of PublicationOxford
PublisherBAR Publishing
Pages555-561
Number of pages7
ISBN (Print)9781407311081
Publication statusPublished - 1 Jan 2013
Event Computer Applications and Quantitative Methods in Archaeology (CAA2010), Granada, April 2010 - Granada
Duration: 6 Apr 20106 Apr 2010

Publication series

NameBAR International Series 2494
PublisherBritish Archaeological Reports

Paper

Paper Computer Applications and Quantitative Methods in Archaeology (CAA2010), Granada, April 2010
Period6/04/106/04/10

Keywords

  • semantic interoperability
  • natural language processing
  • knowledge organization systems

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