Summer school: Design of Archaeological Datasets Pisa 2015
Content: the course aims at providing students with an introduction to metadata design for archaeological datasets, with perspective content provided as case studies by the students. The school will consist of some introductory lectures followed by hands-on seminars in which the design is developed by the students with the supervision of ISTI experts and then collectively discussed.
Organizer: ISTI-CNR, Pisa, Italy
6-10 July, 2015
Venue: ISTI, Area della Ricerca di Pisa, Via G. Moruzzi 1, 56125 Pisa, Room C29
Pre-requisites: Basic knowledge of mark-up languages, metadata and semantics.
Programme
| Monday 6th July | |
| 14.30 – 17.30 | Welcome and introduction to the summer school.
Presentation of research questions and data by participants |
| Tuesday 7th July | |
| 9.30 – 12.30 | Basics.
Principles of Data and Conceptual modeling. Web architecture, the semantic web, URL, XML |
| 12.30 – 14.30 | Lunch |
| 14.30 – 17.30 | Analysis of the research questions and data by the participants |
| Wednesday 8th July | |
| 9.30 – 12.30 | Modeling with the Resource Description Framework.
Objects and relationships, RDF Syntax. Abstraction mechanisms and RDF schema. RDF semantics, inferences, SPARQL |
| 12.30 – 14.30 | Lunch |
| 14.30 – 17.30 | Ontologies.
Definition and examples, the Ontology web language OWL 2, the ontology editor Protege |
| Thursday 9th July | |
| 9.30 – 12.30 | Metadata schemas and standards for Archaeological and Architectural heritage.
Critical overview on metadata schemas and standards for CH documentation. |
| 12.30 – 14.30 | Lunch |
| 14.30 – 17.30 | Design of metadata for archaeological datasets: hands on session.
Each participant will be assisted in the design of metadata for his/her archaeological dataset |
| Friday 10th July | |
| 9.30 – 12.30 | Linked Data.
Producing, consuming, publishing Linked Data. Demonstration |
| 12.30 – 14.30 | Lunch |
| 14.30 – 17.30 | Lessons learned, questions and feedback from participants.
Conclusions. |