Fuzziness and Wobbliness in Practice, How to FAIRify Cultural Heritage Artefacts?

Description

The TRAIL “Semantic Fuzziness in Practice: Cultural Heritage Objects as Information Carriers” brings together the work from TRAIL 2.2 and 2.6 and addresses the central challenge of systematically and transparently representing uncertainties, vagueness, and interpretive leeway in research data. Since data in archaeology and historical cultural studies are often transmitted in a vague or fragmentary manner, there has been a lack of a methodological standard for the semantic modeling of such fuzziness and wobbliness. To this end, the TRAIL is developing community standards, tools, and best practices to make uncertainties reproducible and usable in the long term. At its core is the further development of the FAIRification tool Academic Meta Tool (AMT) in Python with integration into Jupyter notebooks. The AMT enables the explicit modeling and analysis of vagueness using reasoning methods. In addition, practical models are being developed using open-source tools based on real-world datasets (Samian Research, Linked Ogham, Numismatics), documented in white papers, and coordinated with the expert community. Furthermore, community standards for uncertainty modeling are being developed in collaboration with other NFDI consortia and made available via the NFDI4Objects Commons. The goal is to establish uncertainty modeling as a cross-cutting methodological theme and to strengthen NFDI4Objects through standards, tools, OERs, and networking with basic services such as Humanities@NFDI and other consortia.