Abstract
This paper presents a strategy for the semantic migration of Portuguese National Archives records into CIDOC-CRM standard, an ontology developed for museums, within the context of the EPISA project. The approach to automatically populate the CIDOC-CRM is based on Mapping Description Rules to semantically translate the archives descriptive information into CIDOC-CRM representation. The compliance of the CIDOC-CRM model recommendations guarantees that the populated CIDOC-CRM ontology of archives descriptive information verifies interoperability, and could be linked and integrated with other populated CIDOC-CRM ontologies. In the information modelling, requirements on the mapping representation, due to the intent of interpreting natural language text to automatically extract information of metadata text fields and to interpret natural language queries, are taken into account. To automatically interpret the Mapping Description Rules, OWL API was used to obtain the set of assertions that represents the information in the target ontology and two datasets are available with some migration examples. The exploration of the knowledge representation is done through some Description Logic queries to highlight the advantages of having this new representation of the National Archives. The evaluation of the resulting representation can be done automatically proving its correctness for the metadata that has a direct representation in CIDOC-CRM.
Highlights
This work is done in the context of the EPISA project (Entity and Property Inference for Semantic Archives), a research project involving the Portuguese National Archives, Torre do Tombo (ANTT), the archival experts from ANTT, and Information and Computer Science researchers
The data model and description vocabularies adopted are built upon the CIDOC-CRM (Conceptual Reference Model) standard [5], an ontology developed for museums by the International Committee for Documentation (CIDOC) of the International Council of Museums (ICOM) [5,19]
The aim of this paper is to introduce an approach to automatically populate the CIDOC-CRM with the Portuguese National Archives metadata
Summary
This work is done in the context of the EPISA project (Entity and Property Inference for Semantic Archives), a research project involving the Portuguese National Archives, Torre do Tombo (ANTT), the archival experts from ANTT, and Information and Computer Science researchers. D. Melo et al / Archives metadata representation on CIDOC-CRM and knowledge discovery knowledge platform, to represent archival information on a linked data model. The aim of this paper is to introduce an approach to automatically populate the CIDOC-CRM with the Portuguese National Archives metadata. The methodology is based on Mapping Description Rules to semantically translate the archives descriptive information into CIDOC-CRM ontology representation
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