Controlled terminologies such as classification schemes, name authorities and thesauri have long been the domain of the library and information science community. Although historically there have been initiatives towards library style classification of web resources, there remain significant...

Findings from a data mapping and extraction exercise undertaken aspart of the STAR project are described and related to recent work in the area.The exercise was undertaken in conjunction with English Heritage andencompassed five differently structured relational databases containing...

Following work on data modelling of the varied archaeological systems at English Heritage’sCentre for Archaeology (CfA), a Conceptual Reference Model (CRM) has been produced usingextensions of the higher level CIDOC-CRM ontology. Some initial results of the modelling, using theCIDOC-CRM, were...

The Semantic Technologies for Archaeological Resources (STAR) project has been exploring the development of new tools andtechnologies for “semantic web” based research. The project builds upon the ontological modelling approach taken by EnglishHeritage staff, in recent years, to modelling...

This paper addresses issues arising from the first steps in mapping different (a)datasets and (b) vocabularies to the CIDOC CRM, within an RDF implementation. We firstdiscuss practical implementation issues for mapping datasets to the CRM-EH and then discusspractical issues converting domain...