Linked Reindeers?A Linked Open Data approach for rock art in Alta
| Main Authors: | Sophie Charlotte Schmidt, Florian Thiery |
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| Format: | info Proceeding eJournal |
| Bahasa: | eng |
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, 2020
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| Online Access: |
https://zenodo.org/record/4074913 |
Daftar Isi:
- The famous rock art in Alta was discovered in 1970 by Prof. Knut Helskrog, who also significantly contributed to the research of these sites. In one of the northernmost places of Europe, just on the road to the North Cape, this prehistoric World Heritage Site bears carvings from 500 BC - 100 AC. The largest site at Jiepmaluokta is open to the public as a museum. The petroglyphes are very well conserved and documented by Structure from Motion (SfM) techniques and photography. The images of single carvings are described with keywords and openly accessible via a website at altarockart.no/fotoweb. In recent years, Linked Open Data (LOD) as Open Access Strategy has become more and more common in archaeology. The CAA SIG on Semantics and LOUD in Archaeology (SIG-DataDragon), the Nomisma Project for numismatics, Linked Ogham Stones and other archaeological information are available on Wikidata as a secondary database. From these developments the idea arose to bring rock art to LOD and Wikidata following the idea of Volunteered Archaeological Information and the SPARQL Unicorn principles [10.5281/zenodo.3742185]. It is therefore our objective to publish the Alta rock carvings as LOD using Wikidata as a semantic publishing tool. The overall idea is to build up a Linked rock art hub like nomisma for coins, starting with publishing data in Wikidata, like the Research Squirrel Engineers have done in the Ogi Ogham Project [http://ogham.link] for medieval stones. In this paper we want to focus on initial modelling ideas and first implementations for Alta rock art in Wikidata.