Interoperability of the ArSol (Archives du Sol) database based on the CIDOC-CRM ontology

Emeline Le Goff (1) , Olivier Marlet (1) , Xavier Rodier (1) , Stéphane Curet (1) , Philippe Husi (1)

1 CITERES - Cités, Territoires, Environnement et Sociétés

ARSOL (ARchives du SOL) was created in 1990 by the Laboratoire Archéologie et Territoires to exploit data from excavation sites. From the start, one of its priorities was to provide access to data. The CIDOC CRM (International Committee for Documentation, Conceptual Reference Model) was chosen as the international standard for structuring digital data for cultural heritage. This choice was imposed by the MASA (Mémoire des Archéologues et des Sites Archéologiques) consortium of the Huma-Num TGIR, whose aim is to provide unified access to digital corpora. The specific features of archaeological data present a difficulty: how can the integrity and specification of data can be respected, while generalizing the names of the fields of the data bases?

Mots clés: Ontology; CIDOC-CRM; interoperability; archaeological excavations; database

Domaines: Archéologie et Préhistoire; Méthodes et statistiques

Emeline Le Goff, Olivier Marlet, Xavier Rodier, Stéphane Curet, Philippe Husi. Interoperability of the ArSol (Archives du Sol) database based on the CIDOC-CRM ontology. CAA2014, 21st Century Archaeology, 42nd International Conference on Computer Application and Quantitative Methods in Archaeology, François Djindjian; François Giligny; Laurent Costa; Hélène Noizet; Sandrine Robert; Paola Moscati, Apr 2014, Paris, France. pp.179-186. ⟨halshs-01182614⟩