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Ontoterminology · version 1.0

Göbekli Tepe Ontoterminology

The archaeological finds of the T-pillars at Göbekli Tepe, modelled so a machine can reason over them.

T-shaped pillars in Building D at Göbekli Tepe
Building D at Göbekli Tepe · Dosseman · CC BY-SA 4.0

Every value shown below comes from the deposited RDF records.

Archaeological evidence matrix

PillarEnclosurePositionMaterialReliefsRecorded motifsRecord controls

The matrix presents four verified examples from the proper-name dictionaries deposited with version 1.0; it is not an excavation plan.

Dataset Info
18Concepts
162Objects
439Individuals
3,456Axioms

Overview

Defines and represents the archaeological finds of the T-pillars at Göbekli Tepe, south-east Turkey (10,000 – 8300 BCE), in a machine-tractable way.

It is an ontoterminology: a terminology whose conceptual system is a formal ontology. The site's monumental architecture and the iconography carved into it are modelled so a machine can reason over them, while the terminology excavators actually use is preserved alongside.

Scope
Period coveredc. 10,000 – 8300 BCE
RegionSouth-east Anatolia
Modelled asOntoterminology
LanguagesEnglish
Built withTedi ontoTerminology Editor. see TEDI documentation
SourcesExcavation record of the T-pillars at Göbekli Tepe
Access the data

Query it through the SPARQL endpoint using this named graph:

https://triplestore.talos-ai4ssh.uoc.gr:8890/datasets/Modeling-Archaeological-Site-Gobekli-Tepe-v1

Ways in

The .otb file opens in TEDI; the .rdf file opens in Protégé, and can be visualised with WebVOWL.

Example queries

A list for the english terms and the definitions in natural language of the ontoterminology using OTV

Terms and their definitions in English. Every concept is denoted by one or more terms, each carrying a language tag, so the language filter is what keeps a multilingual ontoterminology readable.

PREFIX rdf:  <http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#>
PREFIX rdfs: <http://www.w3.org/2000/01/rdf-schema#>
PREFIX skos: <http://www.w3.org/2004/02/skos/core#>
PREFIX otv:  <http://www.ontologia.fr/OTB/otv#>
SELECT ?termName ?definition
FROM <https://triplestore.talos-ai4ssh.uoc.gr:8890/datasets/Modeling-Archaeological-Site-Gobekli-Tepe-v1>
WHERE {
  ?concept rdf:type otv:Concept;
           otv:denotedByTerm ?term.
  ?term    otv:language        ?lg;
           otv:termName        ?termName;
           otv:termDefinition  ?definition.
  FILTER (?lg = "en")
}
ORDER BY ?termName
LIMIT 10

Raise or remove the LIMIT once you know the shape of the results. The same pattern works against the other ontoterminologies: change the graph IRI in the FROM clause.

Size & structure
Concepts18
Terms18
Proper names162
Objects162
Axioms3,456
Classes32
Individuals439
Object properties25
Data properties6
Citation & licence

Cite as

Lourentzaki, A., Papadopoulou, M., & Roche, C. (2024). 
Modeling An Archaeological Site - Göbekli Tepe v.1.0 (Version 1.0) [Dataset].
Zenodo. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.13370343

DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.13370343

Licence

CC BY-NC-ND 4.0

Funding

European Commission, TALOS AI4SSH, grant agreement 101087269.

Credits

Antonia LourentzakiData curator
ORCID 0009-0004-9982-8349
Maria PapadopoulouSupervisor
ORCID 0000-0001-6451-8712
Christophe RocheSupervisor
ORCID 0000-0002-0756-0559

Department of Archaeology and Department of Philology, University of Crete