Integrating data from The Perseus Project and Arachne using the CIDOC CRM: An Examination from a Software Developers Perspective
Kummer, Robert
2006
- In a joint effort, The Perseus Project, a digital library hosted at Tufts University, and Arachne, the central database for archaeological objects of the German Archaeological Institute (DAI) and the Research Archive for Ancient Sculpture at the University of Cologne (FA), want to make their data accessible to a greater audience using the CIDOC CRM data model. Given the fact that the information ... read morein each of their databases is of interest to a large community of people, efforts to overcome the current lack of data integration have to be made. Aside from the philosophical implications and the mathematical background involved, the main concern of this project will be the practicability of a software implementation of all relevant concepts using basic Semantic Web technologies as described by the W3C, along with an investigation of the usability of the CIDOC CRM for a multilingual interface. The main purpose of the implementation process is to get a deeper understanding of the concepts and technologies involved when dealing with the Semantic Web, ontologies in general and the CIDOC CRM in particular. For the process of implementation it is essential that software tools team up with a methodical process, and that appropriate tools be discovered or developed and documented. Functional requirements have a tendency to evolve relatively rapidly when information systems are used by historians. Information systems in the humanities are especially confronted with the problem of constant change through the acquisition of new project partners carrying new and varied source material. As a consequence, potential integration efforts have to cope with changes of the database schemas and therefore should be flexible.read less
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