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Timecapsule: Combining botanical and pharmaceutical heritage data from different sources in time and space. Toine Pieters Utrecht University // Descartes Centre for the History and Philosophy of the Sciences and the Humanities. Project Time Capsule (Oct. 2013-Oct. 2017).
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Timecapsule: Combining botanical and pharmaceutical heritage data from different sources in time and space Toine Pieters Utrecht University // Descartes Centre for the History and Philosophy of the Sciences and the Humanities
Project Time Capsule(Oct. 2013-Oct. 2017) • Mission: • the development of a digital data platform for ethno-pharmacological knowledge (1550-1850), as a tool for medical historical and ethnobotanical research and educational purposes
Inspiration Andy Warhol's largest collecting project (early '70s until his death in 1987): 600 cardboard boxes
How to fill the virtual boxes and how to move them in time and space?
Building an ontology that will facilitate cross-database queries and information retrieval What are the user demands/needs?
The history of botany = the history of pharmacy • C. Haris Saslis-Lagoudakis et al., 'Phylogenies reveal predictive power of traditional medicine in bioprospecting', Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America (PNAS) (2012) • Purpose: historical mapping of the • circulation of pharmaceutical knowledge
Building an ontology that will facilitate cross-database queries and information retrieval How can this be achieved?
Designing an ontology linking different kinds of data by means of semantic relationships
An iterative strategy for the co-construction of ontology technology by users and developers
Towards a national thesaurus Cultural Heritage Agency (RCE) Meertens Inst. Heritage resources Dutch Royal Library National Herbarium (Naturalis) Sound and Vision Institute