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Toine Pieters

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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Toine Pieters

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  1. 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

  2. Project Time Capsule(Oct. 2013-Oct. 2017)

  3. 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

  4. Inspiration Andy Warhol's largest collecting project (early '70s until his death in 1987): 600 cardboard boxes

  5. How to fill the virtual boxes and how to move them in time and space?

  6. Building an ontology that will facilitate cross-database queries and information retrieval What are the user demands/needs?

  7. 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

  8. Dutch commodity chains: trading food, medicines and poisons

  9. Building an ontology that will facilitate cross-database queries and information retrieval How can this be achieved?

  10. Designing an ontology linking different kinds of data by means of semantic relationships

  11. An iterative strategy for the co-construction of ontology technology by users and developers

  12. Towards a national thesaurus Cultural Heritage Agency (RCE) Meertens Inst. Heritage resources Dutch Royal Library National Herbarium (Naturalis) Sound and Vision Institute

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