From thesaurus to semantic network: make (re)usable the ANRJCJC Itineris data
Résumé
The ANRJC Itineris (https://anr.fr/Projet-ANR-21-CE27-0010) is a 42 months funded research
project on the characterisation of Italic bronze craftsmanship in the Early Iron Age. This
international project promotes an innovative and comprehensive methodological examination
of the new and unpublished data acquired, combining the archaeological approach with
technological, archaeometric and geostatistical analyses (Cicolani 2017, 2020). Focusing on
craft techniques networks and knowledge flows modelling, this project sets out to explore the
ways in which technologies, traditions and fashion behavior are transmitted over wide areas
and across cultural boundaries, revealing new scenarios and social models. In consistency with LOD and FAIR policies (Wilkinson et al. 2016), the Workpackage 3 of the ITINERIS project takes care of open-source data and tools in order to provide to the scientific community open access results, codes and data produced during the project as well as after their publication.
This paper will focus in particular on how to make the ANR Itineris data (unprocessed, processed, meta, etc.) FAIR by developing structured datasets compliant with ISO standards, coding in open-source (R, Python) and using an open-source web platform (GitHub, 3DHOP) allowing users to interact with the processed data (measurements, 3D models, maps, etc.) and to download the raw data. All of this data will also be indexed using the trilingual thesaurus developed as part of the project.