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 The ontology is developed based on historical documents of Weimar Republic that are being digitized by the German Federal Archive and the Baden-Württemberg State Archives.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:

Vsesviatska, O., Tietz, T., Hoppe, F., Sprau, M., Meyer, N., Dessì, D., & Sack, H. (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).

Bibtex:

@inproceedings{vsesviatska2021,
  title={ArDO: An Ontology to Describe the Dynamics of Multimedia Archival Records},
  author={Vsesviatska, Oleksandra and Tietz, Tabea and Hoppe, Fabian and Sprau, Mirjam and Meyer, Nils and  Dessi, Danilo and Sack, Harald},
  booktitle={Proceedings of the 36th ACM/SIGAPP Symposium on Applied Computing},
  pages={1855-1863},
  year={2021}
}

The paper can be found HERE

The reader can find the full documentation in https://w3id.org/ardo/

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 The reader can also find the results of each of the queries based on the data obtained from the historical documents of the Weimar Republic.

For any additional info please contact:

Oleksandra Bruns

Danilo Dessì

FIZ-Karlsruhe - ISE Team

This work has been supported by a public grant overseen by the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) for the project “Aufbau einer Infrastruktur zur Implementierung sachthematischer Zugänge im Archivportal-D am Beispiel des Themenkomplexes Weimarer Republik (Projektphase 2)" with grant number 396707386 in the DFG LIS programme (WissenschaftlicheLiteraturversorgungs - und Informationssysteme).

2021-02-21 The new version 2.0 has been released. The namespace has been changed and based on a permanent identifier provided by w3id.org.