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In contemporary archaeological practice, archaeological data suffers from three main conditions: 1. the accumulation of vast amounts of data, 2. considerable fragmentation of data, and 3. the fast technological progress resulting in a constant need of new or upgraded data solutions to ensure sustainability and accessibility. Moreover, as data multiplies, so does data complexity. As a result, rather than a growing network of connected knowledge, researchers are faced with a growing set of disconnected data pools. The ‘Common Grounds’ semantic data project aims to bring together tested work in semantic data representation of archaeological datasets for providing a consistent conceptual model and create an integrated semantic data management platform for the Swedish Research Institutes in Rome, Athens, and Istanbul. Given a number of base datasets the data will be transformed using CIDOC-CRM ontological framework and loaded into an instance of the open source platform ‘Arches’. The datasets will thus be accessible and open for research to data owners and their collaborators from different locations in the world. Initially inter-institutional, this will allow the potential connection with external data sources in the future. The semantic nature of the transformed data will ensure its sustainability and independence from a specific data platform for decades to come and will facilitate not only the integration of other relevant datasets but also the creation of semantically-born data. |
