Bridging Stones and Volcanoes: Can Semantic Modelling, Visualisation, and Little Minions Bridge Archaeology and Geosciences?

This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License. image: Florian Thiery CC BY 4.0, created using OpenAI’s DALL·E Florian Thiery, Fiona Schenk, Peter Thiery CAA NL-FL| 09-10 Dec 2025 | Stad Brussel | Belgium | 09/12/2025 Session: Data Management & Data Architecture Bridging Stones and Volcanoes Can Semantic Modelling, Visualisation, and Little Minions Bridge Archaeology and Geosciences? Semantic modelling, visualisation and documentation workflows, plays a significant role in achieving interoperability and reusability … 2 … by providing the structured, machine-actionable context for cross-domain integration and reuse of data. 3 In the interdisciplinary field of Cultural Heritage, research data is dispersed across heterogeneous and distributed repositories 4 Florian Thiery & Andreas Noback, CC BY 4.0 Integrating community-driven infrastructures such as the Wikiverse and OpenStreetMap supports also AI systems 5 Mtrognitz, CC0, via Wikimedia Commons A view of the Wikimedia Linked Open Data web. Credit: Dan Shick (WMDE) CC-BY-SA 4.0 fuzzy-sl RDF Modelling Scheme 6 Florian Thiery CC BY 4.0 http://www.w3.org/TR/prov-o/ E53 fuzzy-sl Wikibase Modelling Scheme 7 CM GLM Florian Thiery CC BY 4.0 E53 How to “feed” the (CH-) Federated Knowledge Graph Ecosystem?8 I0I0 0I0I LOD Wikibase FDO GIS OSM LPG HIN EpiDoc Florian Thiery & Andreas Noback, CC BY 4.0 Ogham Stones Early Medieval Network Ogham Stone as TEI/EpiDoc (I-COR-030) 16 via https://ogham.celt.dias.ie/I-COR-30 via https://github.com/lguariento/og-h-am/blob/main/XML/I-COR/I-COR-030.xml TX1 17 via https://research-squirrel-engineers.github.io/jupyter-nb-lod/n4okg-ogham-sites-maps N4O KG I0I0 0I0I fuzzy-sl Wikibase [Q74] 18 via https://fuzzy-sl.wikibase.cloud/wiki/Item:Q74 Florian Thiery, CC BY-NC-SA 4.0 19 via https://research-squirrel-engineers.github.io/jupyter-nb-lod/wikidata-ogham-sites-map Wikidata I0I0 0I0I 20 via https://research-squirrel-engineers.github.io/jupyter-nb-lod/wikidata-ogham-sites-map Wikidata [Q130529871] I0I0 0I0I Semantic Kompakkt [Q1247] 21 via https://wikibase.semantic-kompakkt.de/wiki/Item:Q1247 via https://semantic-kompakkt.de/entity/670e54210da6ec51ee08e5fb Semantic Kompakkt [Q1247] 22 via https://semantic-kompakkt.de/entity/670e54210da6ec51ee08e5fb I0I0 0I0I FactGrid [Q1000294] 23 via https://database.factgrid.de/wiki/Item:Q1000294 OpenStreetMap [Overpass-Turbo] 24 via https://overpass-turbo.eu/s/1lwq Florian Thiery, CC BY 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons 25 Query source Federating between Semantic Kompakkt to get the 3D file view location & Wikidata to get all external IDs THX to Lozana !!! Paglicci Cave in literature and OpenStreetMap 32 Zorzi, F. 1964. ‘Palaeolithic Discoveries in the Grotta Paglicci’. Antiquity 38 (149): 38–44. doi: 10.1017/S0003598X00068757. © Published online by Cambridge University Press https://www.openstreetmap.org/node/2293681037 Paglicci Cave in the LOD Cloud 33 https://research-squirrel-engineers.github.io/campanian-ignimbrite-geo/cisite_19/index.html https://fuzzy-sl.wikibase.cloud/entity/Q114 Franchthi Cave as Archaeological Site in the LOD Cloud 34 http://www.openstreetmap.org/node/1221172611 Open Street Map Contributors, ODbL Zde, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons Zde, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons Xalaros, Attribution, via Wikimedia Commons Franchthi Cave in the LOD Cloud 35 https://research-squirrel-engineers.github.io/campanian-ignimbrite-geo/cisite_45/index.html https://fuzzy-sl.wikibase.cloud/entity/Q111 Crvena Stiljena Cave as Archaeological Site in the LOD Cloud 36 via trentu.ca via http://www.openstreetmap.org/node/10879170567 Open Street Map Contributors, ODbL Roland Soré, via flickr rolibin/30105173063 Crvena Stiljena Cave in the LOD Cloud 37 https://research-squirrel-engineers.github.io/campanian-ignimbrite-geo/cisite_45/index.html https://fuzzy-sl.wikibase.cloud/entity/Q89 Toplitsa Cave as Archaeological Site in the LOD Cloud 38 via https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jasrep.2021.102912 © Tsanova et al. via http://www.openstreetmap.org/node/11109379095 Open Street Map Contributors, ODbL Toplitsa Cave in the LOD Cloud 39 https://research-squirrel-engineers.github.io/campanian-ignimbrite-geo/cisite_45/index.html https://fuzzy-sl.wikibase.cloud/entity/Q115 Ogham Sites … with Jupyter Notebooks. SPARQL query to create DataFrame 41 https://research-squirrel-engineers.github.io/jupyter-nb-lod/wikidata-ogham-sites-map Output 48 This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License. image: Florian Thiery CC BY 4.0, created using OpenAI’s DALL·E Finis! Thx! Florian Thiery M.Sc. Research Squirrel Engineers Network [email protected] ORCID: 0000-0002-3246-3531 image: Florian Thiery CC BY 4.0, created using OpenAI’s DALL·E