Citizen science archaeological finds on the Semantic Web: the FindSampo framework

Abstract

Abstract

Digital humanities on the Semantic Web: Sampo model and portal series

“…(Meta)data are richly described with a plurality of accurate and relevant attributes Obviously, the Sampo model principles are compatible with the FAIR principles above. This follows from the fact that the model was developed using the standards, linked data principles, 31 and best practices 32 of the W3C.…”

“…In this way the LetterSampo framework could be applied easily to create portals for three different datasets related to the Republic of Letters [15] from the University of Oxford (Early Modern Letters Online 33 ), the Dutch Huygens Institute (CKCC corpus underlying ePistolarium 34 ), and the Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences (correspSearch (meta)dataset 35 ). The Sampo framework is applied also the in FindSampo system [31,69] in the domain of archaeological finds using collections of the National Museum of Finland, the PAS database of the British Museum, and collections of the Fitzwilliam Museum in Cambridge [64].…”

“…This section overviews shortly a selection of these systems, listed in Table 2, in order to provide a proof-of-concept of the model and to give some examples 30 The FAIR principles are listed here and their numbering are based on https://www.go-fair.org/fair-principles/. 31 and historical background of the work. For each system, the year of publication, application domain, number of end users, size of the underlying triplestore, and primary data owners are listed.…”

FindSampo: A Linked Data Based Portal and Data Service for Analyzing and Disseminating Archaeological Object Finds

“…The popularity of recreational metal detecting has grown rapidly in many countries such as in Finland during the last decade, creating a large amount of new archaeological data. This paper demonstrates how archaeological object finds made by the public can be analyzed using the Linked Open Data (LOD) based FindSampo service [14,20]. FindSampo research prototype has been created by the SuALT project 5 aiming to study and improve the reporting process and analysis of archaeological finds based on collaboration of the public, academic researchers, archaeologists, and the Finnish Heritage Agency (FHA) [6,29,22].…”

“…4. Metal-Detected Artefacts (MEDEA) 14 is an online portal developed in Flanders for metal detectors [2,28]; 5. ILPPARI 15 is a service of the Finnish Heritage Agency (FHA) for reporting archaeological object finds found by the public in Finland.…”