Archaeotools
Prof Julian Richards, Dr Stuart Jeffrey & Stewart Waller
The Archaeology Data Service, University of York
Prof Fabio Ciravegna, Dr Sam Chapman & Ziqi Zhang
Natural Language Processing Research Group,
Department of Computer Science, University of Sheffield
Arts & Humanities e-Science Projects Meeting, Edinburgh, 6 May 2008
AIM: To allow
archaeologists to
discover, share and
analyse datasets and
legacy publications
which have hitherto
been very difficult to
integrate into existing
digital frameworks
BUILDS UPON:
Common Information
Environment Enhanced
Geospatial browser
• Workpackage 1 - Advanced Faceted
Classification /Geo-spatial browser – 1m+
records; 4 primary facets – what, when, where &
media
• Workpackage 2 – Natural language processing
/Data-mining of Grey Literature
• Workpackage 3 – Data-mining of Historic
Literature; plus geoXwalk
Oracle
RDBMS
MIDAS XML
Record
Input
XML Docs of
Thesaurus
Information
Extraction
RDF Resource
When, Where, What ontologies
as entries to faceted index
Information
Extraction
Knowledge
triple store
Input
Query
User Interface
linear
Workpackage 2 –
• Natural language processing /Data-mining of
Grey Literature using standard thesauri
• Add them to the faceted index
• Allow users to impose their own classifications
and index the documents according to their own
criteria, adding further user-defined dimensions
to the classification.
Workpackage 3
• Data-mining of Historic Literature, looking for
place names
• Implement EDINA GeoCrossWalk to find spatial
location
• Add to Faceted Index to enhance ‘Where’
search
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