Scientific Instrument Makers and Events Ontology, SIMEOn
Name
SIMEOn_V21_20231215.owl
Description
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Size
247.39 KB
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Checksum (CRC64NVME)
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Resource type
Dataset
Creator (Person)
Middle, Sarah
Date published
2023
Abstract
SIMEOn (Scientific Instrument Makers and Events Ontology) is an ontology designed to model data about the lives and work of scientific instrument makers. It was created to represent data in the legacy SIMON (Scientific Instrument Makers, Observations and Notes) database of makers in Britain and Ireland, 1550-1914, held by Royal Museums Greenwich. The Tools of Knowledge project (UKRI AH/T013400/1) remodelled this data semantically for presentation in a database on the Arches platform. It is modelled with reference to the events-based CIDOC Conceptual Reference Model (CIDOC CRM https://cidoc-crm.org/) but with considerable additional nuance in order to capture the level of detail included in the data. It is envisaged that the ontology may provide a useful resource or point of reference for other datasets that seek to model prosopographical data on trades and enterprises, including business genealogies, particularly where this activity can be associated with its material products.
Project(s)
Tools of Knowledge: Modelling the Creative Communities of the Scientific Instrument Trade, 1550-1914
Funder
| Funder name | Awards |
Arts and Humanities Research Council | AH/T013400/1 |
Publisher
National Museums Scotland
Official URL
Rights statement
In Copyright
Related identifier
| Identifier | Type | Relation |
10.34908/vkmq-hk45 | DOI | issupplementto |
Additional information
This ontology was created using the Protégé ontology editor. The file has a .owl extension that can be opened with the Protégé plugin. This is free, open source software that can be downloaded or used on the web: see https://protege.stanford.edu/. It is in RDF/XML format and so can also be opened in a text editor.