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Representing Archeological Excavations Using the CIDOC CRM Based Conceptual Models

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This paper uses CIDOC CRM and CRM-based models (CRMarchaeo, CRMsci) to represent archaeological excavation activities and the observations of archaeologists during their work in the excavation field. These observations are usually recorded in documents such as context sheets. As an application of our approach (case study), we used the records of the recent archaeological excavations in Fuwairit in Qatar, part of the Origins of Doha and Qatar Project. We explore issues related to the application of classes and properties as they appear in the latest versions of the aforementioned models, i.e. CIDOC CRM, CRMarchaeo, and CRMsci. The proposed data model could be used as the basis to create an automated system for archaeological documentation and archeological data integration.

This work was made possible thanks to a research fellowship by UCL Qatar/Qatar Foundation in 2020.

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Notes

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    https://ariadne-infrastructure.eu/.

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    https://crmeh.wordpress.com/.

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    http://www.cidoc-crm.org.

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    http://new.cidoc-crm.org/crmarchaeo.

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    http://www.cidoc-crm.org/crmsci.

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    https://originsofdoha.wordpress.com/.

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    Note that the representation of the back sheet of the context sheet is out of the scope of this paper.

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  1. Department of Archives, Library Science and Museology, Ionian University, Ioannou Theotoki 72, 49100, Greece

    Manolis Gergatsoulis & Eleftherios Kalogeros

  2. University College London in Qatar, Education City, Doha, Qatar

    Georgios Papaioannou & Robert Carter

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Gergatsoulis, M., Papaioannou, G., Kalogeros, E., Carter, R. (2021). Representing Archeological Excavations Using the CIDOC CRM Based Conceptual Models. In: Garoufallou, E., Ovalle-Perandones, MA. (eds) Metadata and Semantic Research. MTSR 2020. Communications in Computer and Information Science, vol 1355. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-71903-6_33

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