University of Catania Department of Mathematics and Computer Science

Ontoceramic: an OWL ontology

for ceramics classification
Domenico Cantone1 , Marianna Nicolosi-Asmundo1,
Daniele Francesco Santamaria1 and Francesca Trapani2
1 Department

of Mathematics and Computer Science, University of Catania

2 Department of Humanistic Sciences, University of Catania

Daniele Francesco Santamaria

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Motivations
Semantic Web and Big Data
Bank, Credit, Assurance.
Security, Health.

Production.
Representative Organization.
Education

Cultural Heritage

Historical Data, Museum Documentation,

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Motivations
Ceramic requires different classification criteria (w.r.t other findings).

Information acquired at different times (depends on excavation).

Several sources of information.
Combining information requires soundness.

Combining information requires coherence.

Inference can save time.
Inference can discover errors.

Performing complex queries with easy tools saves time and spreads
knowledge.
Integration with other data.

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OntoCeramic
OWL 2 Ontology.
Cataloguing.
Classification.
Spreading Knowledge by 5Stars LOD Philosophy.
OWL Reason Maintenance.
Uses LinkedGeoData for locations management.
Uses CIDOC CRM for concepts and relationships used in cultural
heritage documentation.
Uses Dublin Core for Culture, Science, Digital Humanities metadata.
More than 90 OWL classes, 33 object properties, 20 data properties and
7 rules.

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OntoCeramic
Managing and Reasoning
About objects provenance
Location.

CIDOC CRM Place, has current

permanent location

LinkedGeoData Place

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OntoCeramic
Managing object fragments,
Relationship, measurement

CIDOC CRM is composed of

CIDOC CRM Man made Object

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OntoCeramic
Managing classes and shapes

CIDOC CRM is composed of

CIDOC CRM Man made feature

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Incoming Features
Dataset from eastern Sicily Excavations.

Stratigraphic Units.
Bibliographic references: The Bibliontology
Production factory.
GUIs.

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