https://github.com/radical-data/mosa-ontology
A decolonial ontology for heritage.
https://github.com/radical-data/mosa-ontology
data-modeling decolonial decolonization heritage heritage-science indigenous indigenous-data-sovereignty ontology owl owl-ontology turtle
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A decolonial ontology for heritage.
- Host: GitHub
- URL: https://github.com/radical-data/mosa-ontology
- Owner: radical-data
- License: mit
- Created: 2024-03-31T12:13:17.000Z (about 2 years ago)
- Default Branch: main
- Last Pushed: 2024-05-31T10:44:27.000Z (about 2 years ago)
- Last Synced: 2025-02-26T07:23:46.523Z (over 1 year ago)
- Topics: data-modeling, decolonial, decolonization, heritage, heritage-science, indigenous, indigenous-data-sovereignty, ontology, owl, owl-ontology, turtle
- Language: HTML
- Homepage: https://www.instagram.com/museumofstolenartefacts
- Size: 30.3 KB
- Stars: 3
- Watchers: 1
- Forks: 0
- Open Issues: 7
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Metadata Files:
- Readme: README.md
- License: LICENSE
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README
# MuseumofStolenArtefacts
## 1. Witnessing Artefacts
#### Guiding Questions
- who has encountered/seen/witnessed artefacts? when? how?
- where is an artefact currently held? how is it (digitally accessed?)
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#### Rationales & Core Aspects
- there are physical/real (although not necessarily material) objects (aka artefacts)
- there are digital records; these may _witness_ artefacts or claim their existence (an artefact's existence and attributes are always described through a digital records)
- coincidence of two digital records (i.e. they (possibly/probably/certainly) refer to the same physical object) is described by a relation between the phyiscal objects they are connected to
- evidentiality from linguistics (verb aspect e.g. in Bulgarian); useful types of evidentiality (to complement the source itself) include:
1. indicative (I have observed myself)
2. inferential (knowing due to inference)
3. renarrative (someone told me that)
4. dubitative (I heard that but I have reason to doubt/who I heard from also hasn't observed)
- recording the absence of an object (I know/believe/suspect that an object exists but have no record of it/don't know where it is held)
#### Ontology Elements
- physical object itself - basis for nearly everything else (because we're eventually interested in artefacts)
- the cultural context it is from (denomination of the culture/group) & evidentiality of that
- other objects that relate to the object (by being about the object, by describing it)
- relationships between physical objects (through object categories, being potentially the same, parts of each other)
- digital records - the lens through which we interact with physical object
- museums, institutions - entities that hold and, importantly, create and publish digital records about them
- idetifiers about institutions themselves
- policies, documents and other contextual materials about object status and restitution
- (persistent) identifiers assigned by institutions for digital records
## 2. Describing Artefacts
## 3. Conversations around Artefacts