The arkivo project stems from the collaboration between the Jozef Pilsudski Institute of America and the University of Sassari. The main goal of this project is to develop the semantic layer for the Pilsudski Institute digital archive.
- This Version: Arkivo 0.3
- Authors: Laura Pandolfo, Luca Pulina and Marek Zielinski
- Contributors: Pilsudski Institute of America and University of Sassari.
- Issued: 2020-07-09
- Document Status: 0.3
- License: This work is licensed under a Creative Commons CC BY 4.0 license. This copyright applies to the ARKIVO Ontology and accompanying documentation.
One of the first steps in the development of the semantic layer for the Pilsudski Institute digital archive was the design of arkivo ontology, which accomodates archival description, including collection hierarchy (for archives typically as Fonds, Series, Files, Items etc.) as well as metadata of the digitized and born-digital items. It provides the way to represent historical events, people, places, organizations and other entities in archival items, as well as relationships between them. arkivo ontology is intended for presentation of archival objects and relationships in Linked Open Data environment. Regarding underlying technology, arkivo uses OWL 2 DL profile.
See the latest version of the ontology. Click here to read the documentation.
arkivo ontology has been integrated with several core ontologies and vocabularies, such as Dublin Core metadata elements (DCMI), Friend Of A Friend Vocaboluary (FOAF), schema.org, the Bibliographic Ontology (BIBO), GeoNames Ontology and LODE.
arkivo ontology has been used to model the historical archival collections of the Józef Piłsudski Institute of America. We provide the RDF dataset which is the result of the efforts made within the arkivo project. The RDF dataset counts about 300 thousand triples and it is available under a Creative Commons CC BY 4.0 license for you to download in .zip* format.
NOTE: If you are reusing any of the shared data, please honor the citation requests expressed below.
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