Cite this as: Vassallo, V., Theodoridou, M., Felicetti, A. and Avgousti, A. 2023 Tools and Ontologies for the Aggregation and Management of Cypriot Archaeological Datasets, Internet Archaeology 64. https://doi.org/10.11141/ia.64.10
This article focuses on the aggregation of Cypriot archaeological datasets, digitally archived in local repositories, into the ARIADNE portal. It considers, in particular, the development of an application profile for inscriptions and presents the integration of two collections, consisting of ancient coins and inscriptions carved on stones. It highlights the tools and ontologies developed for the aggregation and management of these digital resources, as well as the related pipeline and activities. The issues encountered are also presented, plus the solutions adopted and the successful results in the data aggregation of these collections into the infrastructure. Currently, thanks to the pipeline, and the semantic tools developed and used in ARIADNE, a collection of Cypriot medieval coins and a corpus of Ancient Greek inscriptions are now more widely accessible to the archaeological community.
Corresponding author: Valentina Vassallo
v.vassallo@cyi.ac.cy
The Cyprus Institute (CyI
Science and Technology for Archaeology and Culture Research Centre (STARC)
APAC Labs
Cyprus
Maria Theodoridou
Foundation for Research and Technology - Hellas (FORTH)
Institute of Computer Science (ICS), Greece
Achille Felicetti
PIN, Università degli Studi di Firenze, Italy
Avgoustinos Avgousti
The Cyprus Institute (CyI)
APAC Labs
Cyprus
Figure 1: Cypriot archaeological materials aggregated in the ARIADNE portal
Figure 2: The Cypriot medieval coin collection in DIOPTRA
Figure 3: The Reflectance Transformation Images (RTI) module is embedded in the Cypriot medieval coin collection for digital visualisation and analysis of the artefacts
Figure 4: The Archaia Kypriaki Grammateia in the STARC Repo
Figure 5: The Archaia Kypriaki Grammateia published in DIOPTRA
Figure 6: The schematisation of the aggregation pipeline for a) the coin collection and b)
Figure 7: CRMtex, CIDOC CRM and AO-Cat modelling of a medieval coin bearing inscriptions on the obverse and reverse sides
Figure 8: CRMtex, CIDOC CRM and AO-Cat modelling of the various investigation operations (i.e. reading, understanding, transliterating and translating) of an ancient Greek inscription from Cyprus
Figure 9: Publication of the Cypriot medieval coins collection in the ARIADNE Portal
Figure 10: Exploring epigraphs in the Research Space platform
Figure 11: Display of a specific inscription
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