CAAPT-O: Computational Approaches for Addressing Problematic Terminology - Ontology

Release 2025-04-08

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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-O is an ontology for the representation of museum terminology guidance documents, including terms, definitions, and suggestions for use.

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#>
ontolex<https://www.w3.org/ns/lemon/ontolex#>
crm<https://www.cidoc-crm.org/cidoc-crm/>
culco<https://w3id.org/culco#>
caapt<https://w3id.org/caapt/ontology#>

CAAPT-O: Overview

This ontology declares the following 6 classes and 6 properties.

Classes

Properties

Definitions for CAAPT-O classes and properties

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

Classes

TermEntry

IRI: https://w3id.org/caapt/ontology#TermEntry

Entry of a term in a language guidance document.
is subclass of
skos:Concept, crm:E55_Type, ontolex:LexicalConcept, culco:ContentiousIssue
is included in domain of
culco:hasSuggestion, ontolex:isEvokedBy, ontolex:lexicalizedSense, crm:P71i_is_listed_in, crm:P129i_is_subject_of
is included in range of
ontolex:isSenseOf

TermRoot

IRI: https://w3id.org/caapt/ontology#TermRoot

Lexical entry of a term in a language guidance document.
is subclass of
ontolex:LexicalEntry, crm:E33_Linguistic_Object
is in range of
describes_replacing
describes_replaced_by
is included in domain of
ontlex:sense
is included in range of
ontolex:isEvokedBy

Guide

IRI: https://w3id.org/caapt/ontology#Guide

Written guidance on language use.
is subclass of
skos:ConceptScheme, crm:E32_Authority_Document, crm:E33_Linguistic_Object, ontolex:ConceptSet
is superclass of
TerminologyGuide, StyleGuide
is included in range of
crm:P71i_is_listed_in, crm:P148i_is_component_of

TerminologyGuide

IRI: https://w3id.org/caapt/ontology#TerminologyGuide

Written guidance for addressing problematic terminology created with the intention of assisting in reparative description work or education around reparative description work.
is subclass of
Guide, culco:ContentiousIssueScheme
is included in range of
crm:P70i_is_documented_in, crm:P71i_is_listed_in

StyleGuide

IRI: https://w3id.org/caapt/ontology#StyleGuide

Written guidance for language style and use.
is subclass of
Guide
is included in range of
crm:P71i_is_listed_in

Suggestion

IRI: https://w3id.org/caapt/ontology#Suggestion

Suggested action to be taken when a term is encountered.
is subclass of
crm:E29_Design_or_Procedure, culco:Suggestion
is in domain of
suggests_replacement_term, suggests_amending_term, preferred, if_not_possible_use, use_along_with, encountered
is in domain of
preferred, use_along_with
is included in domain of
dcterms:creator, dcterms:contributor, dcterms:mediator, dcterms:created, dcterms:modified, crm:P2_has_type, crm:P33_used_specific_technique, crm:P67_refers_to, crm:P70i_is_documented_in, crm:P129_is_about
is included in range of
culco:hasSuggestion

Properties

suggests_amending_term

IRI: https://w3id.org/caapt/ontology#suggests_amending_term

Is suggested amending term used in the suggestion.
has domain
Suggestion
has range
ontolex:LexicalEntry

suggests_replacement_term

IRI: https://w3id.org/caapt/ontology#suggests_replacement_term

Is suggested replacement term used in the suggestion.
has domain
Suggestion
has range
ontolex:LexicalEntry

preferred

IRI: https://w3id.org/caapt/ontology#preferred

Suggestion that is preferred.
is subproperty of
crm:P69_has_association_with
is inverse of
if_not_possible_use
has domain
Suggestion
has range
Suggestion

if_not_possible_use

IRI: https://w3id.org/caapt/ontology#if_not_possible_use

Suggestion to be considered if preferred suggestion is not possible to use.
is subproperty of
crm:P69i_is_associated_with
is inverse of
preferred
has domain
Suggestion
has range
Suggestion

use_along_with

IRI: https://w3id.org/caapt/ontology#use_along_with

Suggestion to be used concurrently.
is subproperty of
crm:P69_has_association_with
has domain
Suggestion
has range
Suggestion

encountered

IRI: https://w3id.org/caapt/ontology#encountered

Suggestion encountered in cataloguing field.
has domain
Suggestion
has range
skos:Collection