An ontology for APUG: problem, method and solution

APEx Dublin, June 26-28, 2013

Damiana Luzzi, Lorenzo Mancini, Irene Pedretti

APUG

• Jesuit archives

• Educational material (theology, philosophy, sciences …), ancient and modern (from 1551 to the present) a unique heritage among the European archives

Holdings

Annotationes Orationes Cicerone Pro Lege Manilia, XVII cent. (Fondo Curia 172, l. 63v-64r)

Holdings

Sforza Pallavicino, Logica, XVII cent., (APUG 389, l. IIIr)

Girolamo Nappi, Annali del Seminario Romano, 1640 (APUG 2800, l. 1r)

Holdings

Leopold I to Athanasius Kircher, 6th August 1666 (APUG 555, 18r, 19v)

Holdings

Biblia. Novum Testamentum. Epistolæ Pauli, Epistola Iacobi,

Epistolæ Petri, Epistolæ Iohannis, Epistola Iudae.

Apocalypsis, XVI cent. (APUG 429, l. 117v)

Holdings

Orazio Grassi, Project for the façade of Saint Ignace church in Rome (Fondo Orazio Grassi, 118)

Holdings

Conclusiones polemicæ. Adversus protestantes utriusque communionis, 1717 (Fondo Tesi, 60)

Holdings

Pasquale D’Elia S.J. (1890-1963)

Fondo Collegio Romano

Giacomo Martina S.J. (1924-2012)

Standard & Software

• ISAD (G)

• FRBR

• FRANAR, ISAAR etc.

• Each standard has its own software

The ontology • Developed as a consequence of this complex

management • Partnership between APUG and Fondazione

Rinascimento Digitale (FRD)

• Deep description of manuscripts • Respects ISAD(G), FRBR etc. • Original interpretation

The ontology

• RDF/XML

• Classes and subclasses

• Heredity of predicates

• Predicate: relation between two classes

LEVEL OF ARCHIVAL DESCRIPTION

Level of archival description

has

Archival history

Extent and medium

Condition of access

Acquisition type Sources Date

Actor in role Principal title Identifier

Creator Title Reference code ISAD (G)

Other title

Not provided

Fond

Subfond

Subseries

File

Series

Actor in role has

Date

Role

Actor

XVI-XIX sec

creator

Jesuit. Roman College

CREATOR / ACTOR

Principal title

has date

sources

actor in role

1961

Internal document on Fondo Curia acquisition

(1945)

Vincenzo Monachino SJ (Archivist)

name Fondo Curia

PRINCIPAL TITLE / OTHER TITLE

place Jesuit Curia

Appellation

Actor Name Name

Title Place Name

Other title has

has

Type

Identifier has

Sources

Type

Actor in role

ISAD (G) / ISO

Reference code

Historical Archives of the

Pontifical Gregorian University

Code IT RM APUG. Fondo Curia

IDENTIFIER

PERSPECTIVES

• From xml/rdf to OWL

• The APUG ontology will be open

CONTACTS

• You are invited to contact us for further observations and questions at

• luzzi.d@gmail.com • lorenzo.mancini172@gmail.com • i.pedretti@unigre.it