Abstract

A typical case of producing records within the domain of conservation of cultural heritage is considered. During condition and collection surveys in memory organisations, surveyors observe types of multiple components of an object but without creating a record for each one. They also observe the absence of components. Such observations are significant to researchers and are documented in registration forms but they are not easy to implement using popular ontologies, such as the CIDOC CRM which primarily consider individuals. In this paper techniques for expressing such observations within the context of the CIDOC CRM in both OWL and RDFS are explored. OWL cardinality restrictions are considered and new special properties deriving from the CIDOC CRM are proposed, namely ‘typed properties’ and ‘negative typed properties’ which allow stating the types of multiple individuals and the absence of individuals. The nature of these properties is then explored in relation to their correspondence to longer property paths, their hierarchical arrangement and relevance to thesauri. An example from bookbinding history is used alongside a demonstration of the proposed solution with a dataset from the library collection of the Saint Catherine Monastery in Sinai, Egypt.

中文翻译：

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类型化属性和否定类型化属性：处理 CIDOC CRM 中的类型观察和否定陈述

摘要

考虑了在文化遗产保护领域内制作记录的典型案例。在记忆组织的状况和收集调查中，调查员观察了一个对象的多个组件的类型，但没有为每个组件创建记录。他们还观察到没有组件。这些观察结果对研究人员很重要，并记录在注册表中，但使用流行的本体论（例如主要考虑个人的 CIDOC CRM）来实施它们并不容易。在本文中，探索了在 OWL 和 RDFS 中的 CIDOC CRM 上下文中表达此类观察结果的技术。考虑了 OWL 基数限制并提出了源自 CIDOC CRM 的新特殊属性，即“类型属性”和“负类型属性”，它们允许说明多个个体的类型和个体的缺失。然后探索这些属性的性质，包括它们与较长属性路径的对应关系、它们的层次结构以及与叙词表的相关性。书籍装订历史中的一个例子与埃及西奈圣凯瑟琳修道院图书馆藏书的数据集一起使用，并演示了所提出的解决方案。