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- Title
Linking Theories, Past Practices, and Archaeological Remains of Movement through Ontological Reasoning.
- Authors
Nuninger, Laure; Verhagen, Philip; Libourel, Thérèse; Opitz, Rachel; Rodier, Xavier; Laplaige, Clément; Fruchart, Catherine; Leturcq, Samuel; Levoguer, Nathanael
- Abstract
The amount of information available to archaeologists has grown dramatically during the last ten years. The rapid acquisition of observational data and creation of digital data has played a significant role in this "information explosion". In this paper, we propose new methods for knowledge creation in studies of movement, designed for the present data-rich research context. Using three case studies, we analyze how researchers have identified, conceptualized, and linked the material traces describing various movement processes in a given region. Then, we explain how we construct ontologies that enable us to explicitly relate material elements, identified in the observed landscape, to the knowledge or theory that explains their role and relationships within the movement process. Combining formal pathway systems and informal movement systems through these three case studies, we argue that these systems are not hierarchically integrated, but rather intertwined. We introduce a new heuristic tool, the "track graph", to record observed material features in a neutral form which can be employed to reconstruct the trajectories of journeys which follow different movement logics. Finally, we illustrate how the breakdown of implicit conceptual references into explicit, logical chains of reasoning, describing basic entities and their relationships, allows the use of these constituent elements to reconstruct, analyze, and compare movement practices from the bottom up.
- Subjects
THEORY of knowledge; ACQUISITION of data; ARCHAEOLOGISTS; ONTOLOGIES (Information retrieval); CASE studies
- Publication
Information (2078-2489), 2020, Vol 11, Issue 6, p338
- ISSN
2078-2489
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.3390/info11060338