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Records in contexts: the road of archives to semantic interoperability

Dunia Llanes-Padrón (Department of Information Science, University of Havana, Havana, Cuba)
Juan-Antonio Pastor-Sánchez (Department of Information and Documentation, University of Murcia, Murcia, Spain)

Program: electronic library and information systems

ISSN: 0033-0337

Article publication date: 7 November 2017

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Abstract

Purpose

The purpose of this paper is to examine the Records in Contexts proposal of a conceptual model (RiC-CM) from the International Council on Archives’ (ICA) archival description and to propose an OWL ontology for its implementation in the semantic web.

Design/methodology/approach

The various elements of the model are studied and are related to earlier norms in order to understand their structure and the modeling of the ontology.

Findings

The analysis reveals the integrating nature of RiC-CM and the possibilities it offers for greater interoperability of data from archival descriptions. Two versions of an OWL ontology were developed to represent the conceptual model. The first makes a direct transposition of the conceptual model; the second optimizes the properties and relations in order to simplify the use and maintenance of the ontology.

Research limitations/implications

The proposed ontology will follow the considerations of the final version of the ICA’s RiC-CM.

Practical implications

The analysis affords an understanding of the role of RiC-CM in publishing online archival data sets, while the ontology is an initial approach to the semantic web technologies involved.

Originality/value

This paper offers an overview of Records in Contexts with respect to the advantages in the field of semantic interoperability, and supposes the first proposal of an ontology based on the conceptual model.

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Citation

Llanes-Padrón, D. and Pastor-Sánchez, J.-A. (2017), "Records in contexts: the road of archives to semantic interoperability", Program: electronic library and information systems, Vol. 51 No. 4, pp. 387-405. https://doi.org/10.1108/PROG-03-2017-0021

Publisher

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Emerald Publishing Limited

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