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Virtual Record Treasury of Ireland (VRTI) Ontology
Release: 24 Jan 2025
- Modified on: 2026-08-24
- Latest version:
- https://www.w3id.org/virtual-treasury/ontology#
- Previous version:
- http://ont.virtualtreasury.ie/ontology#
- Revision:
- v4.0
- Issued on:
- 2022-01-24
- Authors:
- Lynn Kilgallon (Trinity College Dublin)
- Lucy Mckenna (Trinity College Dublin)
- Beyza Yaman (Trinity College Dublin)
- Alex Randles (Trinity College Dublin)
- Fabrizio Orlandi (Trinity College Dublin)
- Christophe Debruyne (Trinity College Dublin)
- Peter Crooks (Trinity College Dublin)
- Gary Munnelly (Trinity College Dublin)
- Declan O'Sullivan (Trinity College Dublin)
- Imported Ontologies:
- <http://erlangen-crm.org/current/>
- core
- Source:
- https://kg.virtualtreasury.ie
- Funding:
- https://www.gov.ie/en/organisation/department-of-tourism-culture-arts-gaeltacht-sport-and-media/
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- Lynn Kilgallon (Trinity College Dublin), Lucy Mckenna (Trinity College Dublin), Beyza Yaman (Trinity College Dublin), Alex Randles (Trinity College Dublin), Fabrizio Orlandi (Trinity College Dublin), Christophe Debruyne (Trinity College Dublin), Peter Crooks (Trinity College Dublin), Gary Munnelly (Trinity College Dublin), Declan O'Sullivan (Trinity College Dublin). Virtual Record Treasury of Ireland (VRTI) Ontology. Revision: v4.0.
Ontology Specification Stable
Abstract
The Virtual Record Treasury of Ireland (VRTI) is an extension of the CIDOC Cultural Reference Model (CIDOC CRM). The ontology contains various properties that represent relationships and roles in historical events. Each property is associated with comments providing definitions or historical context, often sourced from academic references. Overall, this ontology serves as a resource for documenting the structure of Irish historical events and relating these events to their participants. This ontology is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) License. Visit the Virtual Treasury website: https://virtualtreasury.ie for more information.Introduction back to ToC
This ontology is designed to represent knowledge about Irish historical events, artifacts, and their relationships. It follows the CIDOC CRM standard and extends it with additional classes and properties for specific use cases.Namespace declarations
| bibo | <http://purl.org/ontology/bibo/> |
| crm | <http://www.cidoc-crm.org/cidoc-crm/> |
| dce | <http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/> |
| dct | <http://purl.org/dc/terms/> |
| foaf | <http://xmlns.com/foaf/0.1/> |
| owl | <http://www.w3.org/2002/07/owl#> |
| prov | <http://www.w3.org/ns/prov#> |
| rdf | <http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#> |
| rdfs | <http://www.w3.org/2000/01/rdf-schema#> |
| schema | <http://schema.org/> |
| skos | <http://www.w3.org/2004/02/skos/core#> |
| vann | <http://purl.org/vocab/vann/> |
| vrti: | <https://www.w3id.org/virtual-treasury/ontology#> |
| widoco | <https://w3id.org/widoco/vocab#> |
| xml | <http://www.w3.org/XML/1998/namespace> |
| xsd | <http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#> |
Virtual Record Treasury of Ireland (VRTI) Ontology: Overview back to ToC
This ontology has the following classes and properties.Object Properties
Virtual Record Treasury of Ireland (VRTI) Ontology: Description back to ToC
The Virtual Record Treasury of Ireland (VRTI) Ontology provides a structured framework for representing historical events and related entities. It supports modeling metadata, provenance, and relationships between historical figures, locations, events and artifacts making historical data interoperable and accessible for digital archives and research.Cross-reference for Virtual Record Treasury of Ireland (VRTI) Ontology classes, object properties and data properties back to ToC
This section provides details for each class and property defined by Virtual Record Treasury of Ireland (VRTI) Ontology.Object Properties
creditorop back to ToC or Object Property ToC
IRI: https://www.w3id.org/virtual-treasury/ontology#creditor
A creditor is the money-lender in a 'Bond' event as defined in the VRTI Vocabulary..
- has super-properties
- P11 had participant op
- has domain
- E5 Event c
- has range
- E21 Person c
debtorop back to ToC or Object Property ToC
IRI: https://www.w3id.org/virtual-treasury/ontology#debtor
A debtor is the money-borrower in a 'Bond' event as defined in the VRTI Vocabulary..
- has super-properties
- P11 had participant op
- has domain
- E5 Event c
- has range
- E21 Person c
deponantop back to ToC or Object Property ToC
IRI: https://www.w3id.org/virtual-treasury/ontology#deponant
A deponant is a person who provides testimony under oath during a deposition, which is a formal legal process.
- has super-properties
- P11 had participant op
- has domain
- E5 Event c
- has range
- E21 Person c
free-person of the cityop back to ToC or Object Property ToC
IRI: https://www.w3id.org/virtual-treasury/ontology#freeperson_of_the_city
A 'free-person of the city' is a person granted the civic status of 'Freeman/Freewoman of the City' as part of a 'Freedom of the City' event as defined in the VRTI Vocabulary.
- has super-properties
- P11 had participant op
- has domain
- E5 Event c
- has range
- E21 Person c
has era typeop back to ToC or Object Property ToC
IRI: https://www.w3id.org/virtual-treasury/ontology#hasEraType
Links to the era of an entity as defined in the VRTI Vocabulary.
- has super-properties
- P2 has type op
- has domain
- E1 C R M Entity c
- has range
- E55 Type c
has place typeop back to ToC or Object Property ToC
IRI: https://www.w3id.org/virtual-treasury/ontology#hasPlaceType
Links to the type of geographical place as defined in the VRTI Vocabulary.
- has super-properties
- P2 has type op
- has domain
- E1 C R M Entity c
- has range
- E55 Type c
husbandop back to ToC or Object Property ToC
IRI: https://www.w3id.org/virtual-treasury/ontology#husband
A husband is a male partner in a marriage union.
- has super-properties
- P11 had participant op
- has domain
- E85 Joining c
- has range
- E21 Person c
testatorop back to ToC or Object Property ToC
IRI: https://www.w3id.org/virtual-treasury/ontology#testator
A testator is the writer of a last will and testament as part of a 'Probate' event as defined in the VRTI Vocabulary.
- has super-properties
- P11 had participant op
- has domain
- E5 Event c
- has range
- E21 Person c
wifeop back to ToC or Object Property ToC
IRI: https://www.w3id.org/virtual-treasury/ontology#wife
A wife is a female partner in a marriage union.
- has super-properties
- P11 had participant op
- has domain
- E85 Joining c
- has range
- E21 Person c
Legend back to ToC
op: Object Properties
Changes from last version
Acknowledgments back to ToC
The authors would like to thank Silvio Peroni for developing LODE, a Live OWL Documentation Environment, which is used for representing the Cross Referencing Section of this document and Daniel Garijo for developing Widoco, the program used to create the template used in this documentation.