An ontology for APUG: problem,
method and solution
Damiana Luzzi, Lorenzo Mancini, Irene Pedretti
APEx
Dublin, June 26-28, 2013
APUG
• Jesuit archives
• Educational material (theology, philosophy,
sciences …), ancient and modern (from 1551
to the present)  a unique heritage among
the European archives
Holdings
Annotationes Orationes Cicerone Pro Lege Manilia, XVII cent. (Fondo Curia 172, l. 63v-64r)
Holdings
Sforza Pallavicino, Logica, XVII cent.,
(APUG 389, l. IIIr)
Girolamo Nappi, Annali del Seminario
Romano, 1640 (APUG 2800, l. 1r)
Holdings
Leopold I to Athanasius Kircher, 6th August 1666 (APUG 555, 18r, 19v)
Holdings
Biblia. Novum
Testamentum. Epistolæ
Pauli, Epistola Iacobi,
Epistolæ Petri, Epistolæ
Iohannis, Epistola Iudae.
Apocalypsis, XVI cent.
(APUG 429, l. 117v)
Holdings
Orazio Grassi, Project for the façade of Saint Ignace church in Rome (Fondo Orazio Grassi, 118)
Holdings
Conclusiones polemicæ. Adversus protestantes utriusque communionis, 1717 (Fondo Tesi, 60)
Holdings
Pasquale D’Elia S.J. (1890-1963)
Giacomo Martina
S.J. (1924-2012)
Fondo Collegio Romano
Standard & Software
• ISAD (G)
• FRBR
• FRANAR, ISAAR etc.
• Each standard has its own software
The ontology
• Developed as a consequence of this complex
management
• Partnership between APUG and Fondazione
Rinascimento Digitale (FRD)
• Deep description of manuscripts
• Respects ISAD(G), FRBR etc.
• Original interpretation
The ontology
• RDF/XML
• Classes and subclasses
• Heredity of predicates
• Predicate: relation between two classes
LEVEL OF ARCHIVAL DESCRIPTION
Fond
Subfond
Level of archival
description
Series
Subseries
File
has
Archival
history
ISAD (G)
Extent and
medium
Condition of
access
Sources
Acquisition
type
Identifier
Actor in role
Principal title
Other title
Reference
code
Creator
Title
Not provided
Date
CREATOR / ACTOR
Actor
Actor in role
has
Role
Date
Jesuit. Roman
College
creator
XVI-XIX sec
PRINCIPAL TITLE / OTHER TITLE
Appellation
name
Fondo Curia
Actor Name
Name
Place Name
actor in role
Title
Principal
title
has
Other title
has
Vincenzo Monachino SJ
(Archivist)
date
1961
place
Jesuit Curia
has
sources
Type
Internal
document on
Fondo Curia
acquisition
(1945)
IDENTIFIER
Code
IT RM APUG.
Fondo Curia
Historical Archives of the
Actor in role
Identifier
Pontifical Gregorian University
has
Type
Sources
Reference
code
ISAD (G) / ISO
PERSPECTIVES
• From xml/rdf to OWL
• The APUG ontology will be open
CONTACTS
• You are invited to contact us for further
observations and questions at
• [email protected]
• [email protected]
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