1. The application of CIDOC CRM in modelling grey archaeological literature in Iran
Massoomeh Niknia
PhD Candidate /Kharazmi University (Tehran, Iran)
Visiting Research Student/University of Cologne (Cologne, Germany)
@m_niknia
The 40th joined meeting of the CIDOC CRM SIG and ISO/TC46/SC4/WG9
The 33nd FRBR - CIDOC CRM Harmonization meeting
January 15-18, 2018 / Cologne, Germany

2. Content at a glance How I become interested in this subject area?
Background of grey archaeological literature in Iran
Iranian Excavation Reports
Problem statement – information diversity
About using the CIDOC CRM
Mapping the Iranian Excavation Reports to CIDOC CRM

3. How I become interested in this subject area?

4. Iranian cultural heritage organization's status

5. National library of Iran

6. National Archive of Iran

7. Cultural Heritage, Handicrafts and Tourism Organization of Iran

8. Archeology institute of the Tehran University

9. The Project at a glance
Excavation reports comprise one of the most important types of archaeological publications.
In Iran, they are mostly published as grey literature.
Based on previous works starting in the 1990's we describe two methodologies for extracting information from excavation reports written in English.
The first method is manually encoding the reports into XML documents and then extracting information from the encoded reports.
The second method is automatically extracting information directly from the reports.
The basis for both methods is various types of elements are seen as valuable for future use of excavation reports, based on local experience and international standards.
These two methods not only lead to variant levels of reproducibility, but also result in unequal levels of human resources investment.
We also discuss how texts structured using these two methods can be imported into CIDOC-CRM compatible databases.

10. Iranian Excavation Reports

11. Samples of Iranian Excavation Reports
Water and caves in ancient Iranian religion: aspects of archaeology, cultural history and religion/ Edited by N. Bagherpour Kashani and Th. Stoellner
On holy waters, caves and women: Introduction of the results of the Vesnave Project
By Thomas Stollner in collaboration with Monika Doll, Walter Dorfler and Rainer Pasternak
Glances at rural religiousness in Pre-lslamic Central Iran: Reconstruction of aspects of ritual activities deduced from the pottery deposition in Cale Gar Mine 1, Vesnave, Iran/ By Aydin Abar
Iranian jewellery and small finds in religious context/ By Natascha Bagherpour Kashani

12. Samples of Iranian Excavation Reports

13. Samples of Iranian Excavation Reports

14. Mapping the Iranian Excavation Reports to CIDOC CRM
Extracting concepts from the Iranian Excavation Reports manually
Mapping the concepts to the CIDOC CRM
Extracting concepts from the Iranian Excavation Reports automatically
Compare the two methods
Evaluate the capability of CIDOC CRM and its family models for Iranian Excavation Reports

15. Issues of translating CIDOC CRM into Persian
Finding equivalent words in Persian for some primary words of the Model
E.g. “Property” and “feature”
E.g. “Source” and “resource” …
The speed of translation is not as fast as issuing new version of the model

16. Mapping Issues
Needing guidelines for using the CIDOC CRM family models
Needing more sample records which made based on the model
Needing an owl format of CRMarchaeo and other family model
There are many parallel event which the archeologists write them in their reports so mapping all of them make the record very complicated …

17. Questions?

18. Thank you for your attention