The Porphyry System Applied to Multilingual Urban Ontologies

Towntology

Madrid 14-15 may 2007Pôle d'expérimentation

du réseau ARTCADHi-CNRS

Sylvie Calabretto, LIRIS, INSA Lyon

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Outline

• The porphyry project

• Intersubjectivity

• The Porphyry model

• The Porphyry system / Experimentations

• Porphyry for the towntology project

• Perspectives

The Porphyry project

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The Porphyry project: semantic access to digitized corpora

archeological series (1876-now)

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archeologist 200,000 digital facsimiles

making sense

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The Porphyry project

AIM: Instrumenting experts’ work in digital libraries

MEAN: By iterative enrichment of the corpus with hypermedia structures

NOTIONS TO INSTRUMENT- Intertextuality: Two texts read in parallel- Intersubjectivity: Plurality of viewpoints

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Intersubjectivity

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Intersubjectivity

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n°116 (1992)

p.708Bulletin de Correspondance

Hellénique

Point de vue

du maquettiste

Point de vue

de l'archiviste Auteur

Moretti, J-Ch.

Date

1991Fig. 30a : Bloc inscrit,

inv.17316, éch.120

Fig. 32 : Bloc inscrit, inv.17316, face antérieure

Point de vue

du bibliothécaire

Auteur

Date

1991

Moretti, J-Ch.

Mulliez, D.

Petridis, P.

A l'ouest du sanctuaire d'Apollon

Heroon corinthien

(dit "de Blum")

Point de vue

du professeur Tartempion

Travaux de l'Ecole française à

Delphes en 1991

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The Porphyry model

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• structureDatabase

mappingDatabase::DocumentObject

Descriptor

SpecializableDescriptor GeneralizableDescriptor

Facet OrdinaryDescriptor Identifier

specialization* *

documentObjectLocator

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The Porphyry model: a description network

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An example of simple description network

Artifact

by type

vase

by date

roman

Jones, Dec. 2000

Jones, Jan. 2001

Smith, 1960

Smith, 1960

Brown, 1968

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Screenshot

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The Porphyry system/experimentations

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The Porphyry system

• 5 years R&D• 18 000 code lines

(Java)• Free software!

http://www.porphyry.org

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The porphyry system

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The porphyry system

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Experimentations

• Plateforms:– Archaeology:

• Paestum vases• Travels of

Chenavard • Sanctuary of

Delos

– Medicine:• Paediatrics

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Porphyry and multilingual urban ontology

• One facet by language

• Experimentations on a set of french, english and italian terms

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Cost action C21 WG2

• Resources :– 1 excell file in english, french and italian– 1 excell file in spanish

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Experimentation with Porphyry

• 3 viewpoints: one per language– English– French– Italian

• A definition is linked to a descriptor of a viewpoint.

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