# PACTOLS the French terminological Repository for Archaeology

Blandine Nouvel, Véronique Humbert, Evelyne Sinigaglia

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Blandine Nouvel, Véronique Humbert, Evelyne Sinigaglia. PACTOLS the French terminological Repository for Archaeology. Linked Pasts 5: back to the (re)sources, Dec 2019, Talence, France. , 2019. halshs-02421873

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Submitted on 20 Dec 2019

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# PACTOLS
## the French terminological Repository for Archaeology

The PACTOLS thesaurus is the only controlled, free, multilingual and interoperable French vocabulary for archaeology. It is one of the tools of the Federation and Resources on Antiquity (Frantiq) of the CNRS that has contributed to the Indexed Collective Catalogue for more than thirty years.

An extensive programme was launched in 2017 and supported by the MASA (Memory of Archaeologists and of Archaeological Sites) Consortium of the TGIR HumaNum to consolidate its structure and reorganise its terminology for better clarity and use on a wider scale than just in libraries. The goal is to make of Pactols a truly thematic repository for all involved in archaeology and a hub of disciplinary metadata interconnected with the semantic web.

FRANTIQ

### Sustained and controlled by a community

- 40 libraries from the Frantiq network analyse academic literature in the **Indexed Collective Catalogue**

- experts and teams of specialists control the choices of vocabulary and participate in the updating of the thesaurus

- 1 Working Group manages the thesaurus on a regular basis

- 1 Steering Committee consolidates the structure and enriches the vocabulary. This Committee is supported by the **MASA Consortium**

- FRANTIQ represents the **CNRS** on the Curators Committee of the **BackBone Thesaurus** of **DARIAH**

### Edited and published by
**Opentheso**

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- Advanced management of terms and branches of the thesaurus

- Multilingual Thesaurus

- Free and open

- Interoperable: imports/exports JSON, SKOS; API REST

- Collaborative with 4 levels of authentification

https://github.com/miledrousset/opentheso

### PACTOLS, hub of metadata
50 000 concepts

Covers all fields of archaeology from Prehistory to the contemporary period and the study of Antiquity

**Peuples [Peoples]**

**Anthroponymes [Anthroponyms]**

**Chronologie [Chronology]**

**Toponymes [Toponyms]**

**Oeuvres [Works]**

**Lieux [Places]**

**Sujets [Subjects]**

Multilingual (fr, en, de, es, it, nl, ar)

Normalised **ISO 25964** and **SKOS**

Citable with **Ark et Handle** persistant identifiers

Free licence **OdBL**

Free access

https://pactols.frantiq.fr

A structure under development on the conceptual model of the **BackBone Thesaurus**

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### Metadata enrichment in connected hubs

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isidore

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Frantiq
CCJ

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métopes
méthodes et outils
pour l'édition structurelle

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OpenEdition

### ISIDORE search engine for enriching information retrieval

#### Library Catalogues

#### Scientific publications in partnership with

- the XML-TEI METOPES editorial chain

- the OpenEdition platform of electronic resources

#### Periodicals

Gallia

Gallia
Préhistoire

AdlFI

Archéologie
médiévale

Archaeonautica

Antiquités africaines

Préhistoires
médiévale

#### Scientific archives and research data

**CoReA** - Corpus & archaeological resources of the Centre Camille Jullian

**AReAR** - Inventory of the Archive database of the Centre Camille Jullian

**EpiCherchell** - Cherchell epigraphy database of the Centre Camille Jullian

**IMAGES** - Itinerary of Medieval Archaeological Sites of the Grand Est Region

**AERBA** - Atlas of rural settlements of ancient Beauce

**RITA** - Pictorial Research - Archaeological Tours

#### Data systems of field archaeology

ArSol

Inrap

**ArSol** - Archaeological information system of Citères-LAT

**EdARCH** - Archaeological information system of the Inrap

### Alignments with repositories

#### In progress

- Wikidata

- Art and Architecture Thesaurus (Getty)

- IdRef (French ministry of Research and Education)

- GeoNames (Places)

- Insee (Places in France)

#### In the planning stage

- Pleiades - Community-built gazetteer & graph of ancient places

- PeriodO - A gazetteer of periods for linking and visualizing data

www.frantiq.fr

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