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An ontology for APUG: problem, method and solution APEx Dublin, June 26-28, 2013 Damiana Luzzi, Lorenzo Mancini, Irene Pedretti
An ontology for APUG: problem, method and solution
APExDublin, 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 DESCRIPTIONLEVEL OF ARCHIVAL DESCRIPTION
Level of archival description
has
Archival history
Extent and medium
Condition of access
Acquisition typeSources Date
Actor in role Principal titleIdentifier
Creator TitleReference codeISAD (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 / ACTORCREATOR / 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 TITLEPRINCIPAL TITLE / OTHER TITLE
place Jesuit Curia
Appellation
Actor NameName
TitlePlace 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
IDENTIFIERIDENTIFIER
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
