Semantic Modeling with Foundries

TL;DR

This paper presents a semantic modeling approach for cultural artifacts, exemplified by Korean ceramic water droppers, supporting detailed descriptions and relationships to facilitate understanding of their production and aesthetics.

Contribution

It introduces a rich semantic modeling framework that captures complex relationships and supports schema transitions, enhancing artifact analysis and cultural heritage documentation.

Findings

Modeling describes production and aesthetic differences

Supports schema and entity transitions

Aligns with object-oriented analysis

Abstract

We analyze challenges for the development of the Human Activities and Infrastructures Foundry. We explore a rich semantic modeling approach to describe two Korean ceramic water droppers used to mix ink for calligraphy, how they were produced and the reasons for their differing aesthetic. Our modeling supports schema and allows for transitions of Entities based on the relationships to other Entities with which they are associated. We explore the similarity of our approach to object-oriented analysis and modeling.