CAAPT-DM: Computational Approaches for Addressing Problematic Terminology - Critical Cataloguing Decision-Making

Release 2025-04-08

This version:
v.1.1.0
Previous version:
v1.0.0
Authors:
Erin Canning✉
Contributors:
Victoria and Albert Museum
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Overview reference:
CAAPT Ontologies
CAAPT Ontology Specification

Abstract

The CAAPT Ontologies represent the structure and intellectual contents of terminology guideline documents along with the related work practices of reviewing and potentially editing records as a result of the identification of "problematic terminology" in cultural heritage institutions, with a particular focus on the museum context. It is named for the research project in which it was developed: the AHRC-funded studentship Computational Approaches for Addressing Problematic Terminology in V&A Museum catalogues. The three ontologies for this project - CAAPT-O, CAAPT-UC, and CAAPT-DM - model terms, definitions, suggestions, and actions, drawing on existing ontologies such as CIDOC CRM, OntoLex, CULCO, and the Web Annotation Data Model to represent the key concepts involved in critical cataloguing as defined by domain experts. The vocabulary - CAAPT-V - includes vocabulary concepts for classifying terms, texts, suggestions, senses, and catalogue record field types.

Introduction

CAAPT-DM is an ontology for the representation of museum-based critical cataloguing decision-making.

For an introduction of the CAAPT ontological framework, see the CAAPT ontologies overview

CAAPT ontology diagram View full-size image

This work is being carried out as a part of the AHRC-funded studentship Computational Approaches for Addressing Problematic Terminology in V&A Museum catalogues.

Namespace declarations

Table 1: Namespaces used in the document
rdf<https://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#>
rdfs<https://www.w3.org/2000/01/rdf-schema#>
owl<https://www.w3.org/2002/07/owl#>
xsd<https://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#>
dcam<https://purl.org/dc/dcam/>
vann<https://purl.org/vocab/vann/>
dcterms<https://purl.org/dc/terms/>
skos<https://www.w3.org/2004/02/skos/core#>
oa<http://www.w3.org/ns/oa#>
ontolex<https://www.w3.org/ns/lemon/ontolex#>
frac<https://www.w3.org/ns/lemon/frac#>
crm<https://www.cidoc-crm.org/cidoc-crm/>
culco<https://w3id.org/culco#>
caapt<https://w3id.org/caapt/ontology#>
caapt-uc<https://w3id.org/caapt/use-contexts#>
caapt-dm<https://w3id.org/caapt/decision-making#>

CAAPT-DM: Overview

This ontology declares the following 1 class.

Classes

Definitions for CAAPT-DM classes and properties

This section provides details for each class and property defined by CAAPT-DM.

Classes

EncounterInstance

IRI: https://w3id.org/caapt/decision-making#EncounterInstance

Term encountered in an object record, connected to the context of its location.
is subclass of
crm:E33_LinguisticObject, frac:Attestation oa:Annotation
is included in domain of
crm:P106i_forms_part_of
is included in range of
crm:P17_was_motivated_by, crm:P140_assigned_attribute_to