The Historical Context Ontology (HiCO)

IRI:
http://purl.org/emmedi/hico
Version IRI:
http://purl.org/emmedi/hico/2020-03-31
Date:
31/03/2020
Current version:
2.0
Authors:
Marilena Daquino
Contributors:
Francesca Tomasi
Silvio Peroni
Other visualisation:
Ontology source
https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/legalcode

Table of Content

  1. Introduction
  2. Classes
  3. Object Properties
  4. Data Properties
  5. Annotation Properties
  6. Namespace Declarations

Introduction

The Historical Context Ontology (HiCO) is an OWL 2 DL ontology developed for representing the context of a claim. In particular, it addresses features characterising hermeneutical activities performed by scholars while generating new information (i.e. an interpretation act). It allows to represent and reason on reliability of argumentations around attributions, by evaluating features such as motivations, types of cited sources or criteria, dates, relations with other claims (e.g. agreement/disagreement). Specifically, historical context regards events and situations that are part of the life-cycle of cultural heritage objects. For instance, being created by somebody, or being created at a certain time, are events related to an artefact that are claimed by an agent at a certain time, motivated with usage of primary sources, and recorded in a secondary source (e.g. a cataloguing record). HiCO extends the PROV Ontology with terms for describing aspects of the hermeneutical activity, and reuses existing ontologies, such as CiTO Ontology for linking attributions to related sources. The following figure shows classes (rectangles), object properties (solid lines beginning with a solid circle and ending with a solid arrow), and assertions among classes (solid lines ending with a solid arrow).

The main class of HiCO is hico:InterpretationAct. An interpretation act is a situation in which a claim about an event is linked (prov:wasGeneratedBy) to all the pieces of information necessary to validate the claim. Such information define the context of the statement, and include the following aspects:

For instance, the artwork called The three Graces has been attributed to Perruzzi Baldassare by cataloguers of the Federico Zeri Foundation around 1990. Bibliographic references support the claim. A contradictory attribution ascribes the artwork to Luino Bernardino's workshop, and this is supported by a claim made by Christie's auction firm in 1994. All this information is recorded in the cataloguing record n.37495. Such a scenario can be represented as follows (in turtle syntax):


    @prefix cito: <http://purl.org/spar/cito/> .
    @prefix crm: <http://www.cidoc-crm.org/cidoc-crm/>.
    @prefix hico: <http://purl.org/emmedi/hico/> .
    @prefix prov: <http://www.w3.org/ns/prov#> .
    @prefix rdf: <http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#> .

    :39794-creation-1 a crm:E65_Creation ;
        crm:P14_carried_out_by :baldassarre ;
        prov:wasGeneratedBy :39794-authorship-attribution-1 .

    :39794-creation-2 a crm:E65_Creation ;
        crm:P14_carried_out_by :bernardino-school ;
        prov:wasGeneratedBy :39794-authorship-attribution-2 .

    :39794-authorship-attribution-1 a hico:InterpretationAct ;
        hico:hasInterpretationType :authorship-attribution ;
        hico:hasInterpretationCriterion :bibliography ;
        cito:citesAsEvidence :book ;
        prov:startedAtTime "1990-01-01T00:00:00.001Z"^^xsd:dateTime ;
        hico:isExtractedFrom :37495-record ;
        cito:disagreesWith :39794-authorship-attribution-2 .

    :39794-authorship-attribution-2 a hico:InterpretationAct ;
        hico:hasInterpretationType :authorship-attribution ;
        hico:hasInterpretationCriterion :auction-attribution ;
        prov:startedAtTime "1994-01-01T00:00:00.001Z"^^xsd:dateTime ;
        hico:isExtractedFrom :37495-record ;
        cito:disagreesWith :39794-authorship-attribution-1 .

Classes

Activityc back to ToC or Class ToC

IRI: http://www.w3.org/ns/prov#Activity

is defined by
http://www.w3.org/ns/prov
has sub-classes
Interpretation Actc

Expressionc back to ToC or Class ToC

IRI: http://purl.org/vocab/frbr/core#Expression

is defined by
http://purl.org/vocab/frbr/core

Interpretation Actc back to ToC or Class ToC

IRI: http://purl.org/emmedi/hico/InterpretationAct

is defined by
http://purl.org/emmedi/hico
The hermeneutical activity performed by an agent in order to generate new information (e.g. an artwork attribution).
has super-classes
Activityc
is extracted fromop some Expressionc
has interpretation typeop some Interpretation Typec
has interpretation criterionop some Interpretation Criterionc
inverse was generated byop some thingc
is in domain of
has interpretation criterionop, has interpretation typeop, is extracted fromop

Interpretation Criterionc back to ToC or Class ToC

IRI: http://purl.org/emmedi/hico/InterpretationCriterion

is defined by
http://purl.org/emmedi/hico
The criterion or type of source used by an agent to support an interpretation act, such as bibliography, verbal communication, etc.
is in range of
has interpretation criterionop

Interpretation Typec back to ToC or Class ToC

IRI: http://purl.org/emmedi/hico/InterpretationType

is defined by
http://purl.org/emmedi/hico
An arbitrary definition of the interpretation act, such as artowork attribution or date attribution.
is in range of
has interpretation typeop

Object Properties

agrees withop back to ToC or Object Property ToC

IRI: http://purl.org/spar/cito/agreesWith

is defined by
http://purl.org/spar/cito
has super-properties
citesop

cites as evidenceop back to ToC or Object Property ToC

IRI: http://purl.org/spar/cito/citesAsEvidence

is defined by
http://purl.org/spar/cito
has super-properties
citesop

disagrees withop back to ToC or Object Property ToC

IRI: http://purl.org/spar/cito/disagreesWith

is defined by
http://purl.org/spar/cito
has super-properties
citesop

has interpretation criterionop back to ToC or Object Property ToC

IRI: http://purl.org/emmedi/hico/hasInterpretationCriterion

is defined by
http://purl.org/emmedi/hico
A property relating an interpretation act to a criterion or type of source used to support the claim.
has domain
Interpretation Actc
has range
Interpretation Criterionc

has interpretation typeop back to ToC or Object Property ToC

IRI: http://purl.org/emmedi/hico/hasInterpretationType

is defined by
http://purl.org/emmedi/hico
A property relating an interpretation act to an individual defining an arbitrary classification of the interpretation.
has domain
Interpretation Actc
has range
Interpretation Typec

is extracted fromop back to ToC or Object Property ToC

IRI: http://purl.org/emmedi/hico/isExtractedFrom

is defined by
http://purl.org/emmedi/hico
A property relating an interpretation act to the source where from the claim has been extracted.
has super-properties
was influenced byop
has domain
Interpretation Actc

refutesop back to ToC or Object Property ToC

IRI: http://purl.org/spar/cito/refutes

is defined by
http://purl.org/spar/cito
has super-properties
citesop

was generated byop back to ToC or Object Property ToC

IRI: http://www.w3.org/TR/prov-o/#wasGeneratedBy

is defined by
http://www.w3.org/ns/prov
A property relating statements to an interpretation act.

was influenced byop back to ToC or Object Property ToC

IRI: http://www.w3.org/ns/prov#wasInfluencedBy

is defined by
http://www.w3.org/ns/prov
has sub-properties
is extracted fromop

Data Properties

started at timedp back to ToC or Data Property ToC

IRI: http://www.w3.org/ns/prov#startedAtTime

is defined by
http://www.w3.org/ns/prov
A property relating an interpretation act to the time that triggered the activity.
has range
date time

Annotation Properties

contributorap back to ToC or Annotation Property ToC

IRI: http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/contributor

creatorap back to ToC or Annotation Property ToC

IRI: http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/creator

dateap back to ToC or Annotation Property ToC

IRI: http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/date

descriptionap back to ToC or Annotation Property ToC

IRI: http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/description

preferred namespace prefixap back to ToC or Annotation Property ToC

IRI: http://purl.org/vocab/vann/preferredNamespacePrefix

preferred namespace uriap back to ToC or Annotation Property ToC

IRI: http://purl.org/vocab/vann/preferredNamespaceUri

rightsap back to ToC or Annotation Property ToC

IRI: http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/rights

titleap back to ToC or Annotation Property ToC

IRI: http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/title

Namespace Declarations back to ToC

default namespace
http://purl.org/emmedi/hico#
cito
http://purl.org/spar/cito/
core
http://purl.org/vocab/frbr/core#
dc
http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/
emmedi
http://purl.org/emmedi/
frbr
http://purl.org/vocab/frbr/
hico
http://purl.org/emmedi/hico/
ns
http://www.w3.org/ns/
owl
http://www.w3.org/2002/07/owl#
prov
http://www.w3.org/ns/prov#
rdf
http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#
rdfs
http://www.w3.org/2000/01/rdf-schema#
spar
http://purl.org/spar/
vann
http://purl.org/vocab/vann/
xsd
http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#

This HTML document was obtained by processing the OWL ontology source code through LODE, Live OWL Documentation Environment, developed by Silvio Peroni.