Transforming the Vocabulaire de la Sigillographie into a Semantic Web Resource
Bibliographic record
Abstract
This paper describes the current situation in the area of digital sigillography that focuses on creating data sets. It observes the possibility of aligning these data sets and suggests developing the Vocabulaire Internationale de la Sigillographie (created in 1990) further for this purpose. It presents the conversion of the printed version into an SKOS (Simple Knowledge Organisation System) resource. It highlights the opportunities offered by Semantic Web technologies, which can begin with sharing descriptive vocabularies. Data interchange between the various European sigillographic resources can be further promoted by shared semantics. This paper proposes a CIDOC-CRM-compliant OWL ontology built on top of the VIS. This is organized around the events of creating the matrix, applying the matrix, handling the impression (e.g., destroying, cutting off), conservation and description. The proposed basic entities map well to existing major seal databases, with the effect that the French Sigilla and the British DigiSig database could merge, and a common European database of medieval seals seems possible.
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How this classification was reachedexpand
Full frame machine prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. The Gemma side is a direct model label for every work in the frame, read from the title-only record. The Codex side is a classifier learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and calibrated to design-weighted sample rates; fields without enough sample support carry no Codex call. Candidate is the union of the two sides; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels.
Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.008 | 0.008 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.007 | 0.007 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.002 | 0.004 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.008 | 0.009 |
| Open science | 0.002 | 0.004 |
| Research integrity | 0.001 | 0.003 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.004 | 0.002 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), not a consensus.
How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".