Buckets vs. Models:

Contextualizing the Art and Rare Materials (ARM) Ontology

Network of interconnected nodes and lines on a gradient background that transitions from a warm golden hue at the bottom to a clear blue at the top. The nodes vary in size and are connected by thin lines, creating a web-like structure. Some nodes appear as filled circles while others are outlined, and the density of the network varies across the image, with some areas more clustered and others more sparse.

Tim Thompson

Librarian for Applied Metadata Research

Yale University Library

timothy.thompson@yale.edu

www.linkedin.com/in/timathompson

@timathom@indieweb.social

LD4 Rare Materials Affinity Group

September 19, 2024

1

2016–2018

LD4P1
ArtFrame and RareMat projects merged
ARM v0.1

3

2019–

RMAG, ongoing work
Profile development in Sinopia

2

2019–2021

LD4P2
Experimentation in Sinopia
ARM v1.0, with additional uses case from archives

ARM and BIBFRAME

Ontology Design

Models or Buckets?

Principles

A good ontology encodes a model or theory of reality.
Ontology development may be guided by functional requirements or competency questions.
Interoperability depends on conceptual consistency and the right level of abstraction.

What about ARM?

Start from BIBFRAME, develop use cases

Origin	Title	Priority	Notes
RareMat	UC1: Provenance tracing (persons, institutions, bookplates)		provenance

Use Cases

From this...

=590  \\$aAutograph: D.L. [Drip?]
=692  14$aDrip, D. L.$xAutograph.

To this...

[
  {
    "@id": "https://trellis.sinopia.io/repository/yale/544a8126-0d95-4041-93eb-e7aee90397be",
    "@type": ["http://id.loc.gov/ontologies/bibframe/Item"],
    "http://id.loc.gov/ontologies/bibframe/custodialHistory": [
      {
        "@language": "eng",
        "@value": "Autograph of D.L. [Drip?]."
      }
    ],
    "https://w3id.org/arm/core/ontology/0.1/markedBy": [
      {"@id": "http://library.yale.edu/ld4p/resource/yale_2020-05-17T00:02:23.209Z/544a8126-0d95-4041-93eb-e7aee90397be/b5"}
    ]
  },
  {
    "@id": "http://library.yale.edu/ld4p/resource/yale_2020-05-17T00:02:23.209Z/544a8126-0d95-4041-93eb-e7aee90397be/b5",
    "@type": ["https://w3id.org/arm/core/ontology/0.1/Autograph"],
    "http://id.loc.gov/ontologies/bibframe/contribution": [
      {"@id": "http://library.yale.edu/ld4p/resource/yale_2020-05-17T00:02:23.209Z/544a8126-0d95-4041-93eb-e7aee90397be/b8"}
    ],
    "http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#value": [
      {
        "@language": "eng",
        "@value": "D.L. [Drip?]"
      }
    ]
  },
  {
    "@id": "http://library.yale.edu/ld4p/resource/yale_2020-05-17T00:02:23.209Z/544a8126-0d95-4041-93eb-e7aee90397be/b8",
    "@type": ["http://id.loc.gov/ontologies/bibframe/Contribution"],
    "http://id.loc.gov/ontologies/bibframe/agent": [
      {"@id": "http://library.yale.edu/ld4p/resource/yale_2020-05-17T00:02:23.209Z/544a8126-0d95-4041-93eb-e7aee90397be/b9"}
    ],
    "http://id.loc.gov/ontologies/bibframe/role": [
      {"@id": "http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/ato"}
    ]
  },
  {
    "@id": "http://library.yale.edu/ld4p/resource/yale_2020-05-17T00:02:23.209Z/544a8126-0d95-4041-93eb-e7aee90397be/b9",
    "@type": [
      "http://id.loc.gov/ontologies/bibframe/Person",
      "http://id.loc.gov/ontologies/bibframe/Agent"
    ],
    "http://www.w3.org/2000/01/rdf-schema#label": [
      {
        "@language": "eng",
        "@value": "Drip, D. L."
      }
    ]
  }
]

Semantic Buckets

Like BIBFRAME, ARM provides semantic buckets for recording specific bits of data in a way that's familiar, maintaining continuity with existing cataloging practices.

Semantic Buckets

Citations

What is a Page?

Semantic Models

Linked Art is based on an upper-level conceptual model for the cultural heritage domain (CIDOC-CRM) and supports interoperability across collections by modeling reality first, and then defining patterns for specific use cases.

Semantic Models

Attribution

License

Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 Internaional (CC-BY).

Thank you!

Tim Thompson

timothy.thompson@yale.edu

www.linkedin.com/in/timathompson

@timathom@indieweb.social