This repository contains ArDO - The Archive Dynamics Ontology - an ontology that describes hierarchical nature of archival resources in form of texts, images, audios, and videos. ArDO enables to keep track of changes of a specific systematics adopted to organize archival resources under semantic categories and keywords. The ontology is developed based on historical documents of Weimar Republic that are being digitized by the German Federal Archive and the Baden-Württemberg State Archives.
This work is described in:
O. Vsesviatska, T. Tietz, F. Hoppe, M. Sprau, N. Meyer, D. Dessì, H. Sack. (2021) ArDO: An Ontology to Describe the Dynamics
of Multimedia Archival Records. In: Proceedings of the 36th ACM/SIGAPP Symposium On Applied Computing (ACM SAC 2021), pp. 1855-1863.
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The reader can find the full documentation in https://w3id.org/ardo/doc.html
The directory CQs/ contains the list of the competency questions and the corresponding SPARQL queries used to test the ontology. The reader can also find the results of each of the queries based on the data obtained from the historical documents of the Weimar Republic.
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This work has been supported by a public grant overseen bythe Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) for the project“Aufbau einer Infrastruktur zur Implementierung sachthematis-cher Zugänge im Archivportal-D am Beispiel des Themenkom-plexes Weimarer Republik (Projektphase 2)" with grant num-ber 396707386 in the DFG LIS programme (WissenschaftlicheLiteraturversorgungs- und Informationssysteme).