Integrating Terminological Tools and Semantic Archaeological Information: the ICCD RA Schema and Thesaurus

This paper describes the process of mapping, translation and publication in SKOS format of the RA Thesaurus, a terminological tool developed by the Italian Ministry of Cultural Heritage (MiBACT) as a part of the official documentation used for the recording of archaeological finds. In particular, the RA Thesaurus is intended to provide unified and meaningful terminology for the description of archaeological objects according to the MiBACT official cataloguing standards. After describing the thesaurus, the logic with which it was developed and its internal structure, we report the various phases of the conversion, both from a theoretical and implementation point of view, and the various technologies used for the publication of the thesaurus on the web. This work is a collaborative effort between PIN and MiBACT carried out under the ARIADNE project.