Overview
- Conveys knowledge to cultural heritage specialists that has previously been unavailable to them, as its only sources are technical texts in software and knowledge engineering
- Builds incrementally from scratch up to advanced topics, so that it can be used at various proficiency levels
- Provides a unique combination of true-and-tested content that is commonly accepted in mainstream literature, plus some recent research results
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Table of contents (34 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Introduction to Conceptual Modelling
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The Basics of Conceptual Modelling
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Back Matter
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Advanced Conceptual Modelling
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About this book
This unique text/reference reviews the key principles and techniques in conceptual modelling which are of relevance to specialists in the field of cultural heritage.
Information modelling tasks are a vital aspect of work and study in such disciplines as archaeology, anthropology, history, and architecture. Yet the concepts and methods behind information modelling are rarely covered by the training in cultural heritage-related fields. With the increasing popularity of the digital humanities, and the rapidly growing need to manage large and complex datasets, the importance of information modelling in cultural heritage is greater than ever before. To address this need, this book serves in the place of a course on software engineering, assuming no previous knowledge of the field.
Topics and features:
- Presents a general philosophical introduction to conceptual modelling
- Introduces the basics of conceptual modelling, using the ConML language as an infrastructure
- Reviews advanced modelling techniques relating to issues of vagueness, temporality and subjectivity, in addition to such topics as metainformation and feature redefinition
- Proposes an ontology for cultural heritage supported by the Cultural Heritage Abstract Reference Model (CHARM), to enable the easy construction of conceptual models
- Describes various usage scenarios and applications of cultural heritage modelling, offering practical tips on how to use different techniques to solve real-world problems
Dr. Cesar Gonzalez-Perez is a Staff Scientist at the Institute of Heritage Sciences (Incipit), within the Spanish National Research Council (CSIC), Santiago de Compostela, Spain.
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Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Information Modelling for Archaeology and Anthropology
Book Subtitle: Software Engineering Principles for Cultural Heritage
Authors: Cesar Gonzalez-Perez
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-72652-6
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Computer Science, Computer Science (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer International Publishing AG 2018
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-319-72651-9Published: 25 January 2018
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-319-89193-4Published: 06 June 2019
eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-72652-6Published: 17 January 2018
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XIX, 449
Number of Illustrations: 216 b/w illustrations
Topics: Simulation and Modeling, Archaeology, Software Engineering, Computational Social Sciences, User Interfaces and Human Computer Interaction, Computer Appl. in Arts and Humanities