Date: 
27 January 2021

 

SSHOC has published a new report documenting the process of mapping social science research metadata standards DDI Codebook and CMDI to the SSHOC Reference Ontology (SSHOCro).

D4.19 Mapping of two indicative selected standards to the SSHOCro represents work undertaken within project Task 4.7 Modeling the SSHOC data life cycle and is authored by Eleni Tsouloucha, Athina Kritsotaki, Chryssoula Bekiari, and Maria Theodoridou of SHHOC partner organisation Forth. 

SSHOC Reference Ontology

SSHOCro is a common meta-level schema based on CIDOC CRM. By offering a conceptual model capable of describing the real-world lifecycle of data produced and managed via generic collection, connection, and interpretation workflows and associated sorting and publishing activities, SSHOCro provides a semantic interoperability framework with two key advantages for Social Sciences and Humanities researchers:

  • It can be applied as a standard when devising and implementing metadata capture schemes to track the data lifecycle in individual projects, institutions and disciplines.
  • It is a canonical form or target schema that can provide a model for a single knowledge base for cross–domain tools and services such as resource discovery, browsing, and data mining.

 

Structure of the Report

The report is structured to take readers step by step through the process of relating and combining data documented with the DDI and CMDI source schema and mapping them to SSHOCro with minimal loss of meaning and data perspective. The following sections are offered:

  1. Selection of the specifications of versions and profiles for DDI and CMDI 
  2. Selection of the tags to be mapped into SSHOCro 
  3. Updating of SSHOCro following the harmonisation process 
  4. Conceptual mapping process: establishing correspondences between selected elements of the DDI and elements/full paths of SSHOCro
  5. Conceptual mapping process: establishing correspondences between selected elements of the CMDI and elements/full paths of SSHOCro 
  6. Implementation of the mappings between selected research datasets documented with CMDI/DDI and SSHOCro 

 

 

Download 4.19 Mapping of two indicative selected standards to the SSHOCro