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Vocabulary Matching Tool
The Vocabulary Matching Tool allows users to align Linked Data vocabulary concepts with Getty Art & Architecture Thesaurus concepts. The tool is a browser based application that presents concepts from chosen source and target vocabularies side by side, exposing additional contextual evidence to allow the user to make an informed choice when deciding on potential mappings (expressed as SKOS mapping relationships). The tool is intended for vocabularies already expressed in RDF/SKOS and can work directly with the data – querying external SPARQL endpoints rather than storing any local copies of complete vocabularies. The set of mappings developed can be saved locally, reloaded and exported to a number of different output formats.
FastCat - A Collaborative Data Entry and Curation Tool
FastCat is a Web-based system designed for historians and other researchers who need to manually digitize structured and semi structured archival documents in a fast and accurate way to create their research dataset. It combines the ease of use and quick data entry functions of the classic spreadsheet with the information accuracy typically associated with a complex database. It does so by offering data entry templates designed to mirror, in the digital space, the structure and data entry logic of the original source.
3M - Mapping Memory Manager
3M is a tool for managing mapping definition files. It’s based on FIMS management system for the administration of the files and also on the 3MEditor for editing and viewing the files. It provides a number of administrative actions that assist the experts to manage their mapping definition files. 3M is available online and is free to use. The source code is open source and available on github.
X3ML Toolkit
The Centre for Cultural Informatics works as competence center for the CIDOC CRM (ISO 21127), by building up and exchanging application know-how, consultancy to implementers and researchers, and contribution to the dissemination, maintenance and evolution of the standard itself. CCI in collaboration with CIDOC for the last 20 years, received basic empirical input and developed a significant number of mapping specifications using a formalism based on the declaration of equivalences and the interpretation of each source schema as a set of nodes and links. Such mappings were used to validate the CRM. The X3ML mapping definition language, a declarative XML language, was the culmination of this experience and formalism. It describes schema mappings in such a way that they can be collaboratively created and discussed by experts who are able to produce the semantics of a mapping. It is human and machine readable and is the ultimate communication means on the semantic correctness of the mapping. Following the X3ML definition, we developed and used an efficient transformation algorithm which processes the declarative X3ML statements and produces equivalent rdf statements. Different cases of semantic heterogeneity that were encountered in different applications are covered. In parallel, the CIDOC CRM SIG started working on the SYNERGY framework, a rich and comprehensive Reference Model for a better practice of data provisioning and aggregation processes, primarily in the cultural heritage sector, but also for e-science. The aggregation of heterogeneous data from different institutions has the potential to create rich data resources useful for a range of different purposes, from research to education and public interests. Along this line, CCI has developed the X3ML Toolkit, a set of small, open source, microservices that follow the SYNERGY Reference Model. They are designed with open interfaces and they can be easily customized and adapted to complex environments. The X3ML Toolkit consists of a set of software components that assist the data provisioning process for information integration. The key components of the toolkit are: (a) Mapping Memory Manager, (b) 3M Editor, and (c) X3ML Engine.