CAAPT-UC: Computational Approaches for Addressing Problematic Terminology - Terminology Use Contexts

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-UC is an ontology for the representation of details of the contextual use of terms as described in museum terminology guidance documents.

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-uc<https://w3id.org/caapt/use-contexts#>

CAAPT-O: Overview

This ontology declares the following 1 class and 6 properties.

Classes

Properties

Definitions for CAAPT-UC classes and properties

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

Classes

UseContext

IRI: https://w3id.org/caapt/use-contexts#UseContext

Context in which a term was used, often but not necessarily a historical context.
is subclass of
ontolex:LexicalSense
is in domain of
diachronic_mark, diaevaluative_mark, diatopic_mark, describes_replacing, describes_replaced_by
is included in domain of
ontolex:reference, crm:P141_assigned
is included in range of
ontolex:lexicalizedSense, ontolex:sense

Properties

diachronic_mark

IRI: https://w3id.org/caapt/use-contexts#diachronic_mark

Time period in which the use context existed or was/is relevant.
is subproperty of
ontolex:usage
has domain
UseContext
has range
crm:E52_Time-Span

diaevaluative_mark

IRI: https://w3id.org/caapt/use-contexts#diaevaluative_mark

Intended purpose of use of the term in a use context.
is subproperty of
ontolex:usage
has domain
UseContext
has range
crm:E55_Type

diatopic_mark

IRI: https://w3id.org/caapt/use-contexts#diatopic_mark

Geographic location in which the use context existed or was/is relevant.
is subproperty of
ontolex:usage
has domain
UseContext
has range
crm:E53_Place

describes_replacing

IRI: https://w3id.org/caapt/use-contexts#describes_replacing

Term that this sense describes the replacement of; e.g.: "the use of the term 'disabled' replaced the use of the term 'handicapped' to refer to people living with diasbilities".
has domain
UseContext
has range
TermRoot
UseContext

describes_replaced_by

IRI: https://w3id.org/caapt/use-contexts#describes_replaced_by

Term that this sense describes being replaced by; e.g.: "the use of the term 'disabled' replaced the use of the term 'handicapped' to refer to people living with diasbilities".
has domain
UseContext
has range
TermRoot
UseContext

References to other ontologies

This section lists each class and property directly referenced or used in CAAPT-O.

CAAPT-O

Classes

SKOS

Classes

Acknowledgments

This research is taking place as part of the AHRC-funded Collaborative Doctoral Partnership scheme grant AH/X004775/1.