Núcleo Português do
Museu da Pessoa
Workflow
In this project we will discuss the process of reverse engineering the MP structure in order to obtain a museum standard format view. This process can be split into the two steps described below, as depicted in Figure:
- Reverse engineering of MP (from MP to MP ontology);
- Mapping the museum standard format view (from MP ontology to CIDOC-CRM);
- Extending the CIDOC-CRM version (from CIDOC-CRM to FOAF and DBPédia).

Reverse Engeneering
Based on the thesaurus, and on the DTDs illustrated in the reverse engineering process above, a first draft of an ontology for the Museum of the Person was created.
1 The first step was an exhaustive extraction of the concepts present in the life stories. After a long analysis phase we came up with the following list:
Concepts of DTD and Thesaurus to create the ontology
DTD + Thesaurus term | English explanation term |
---|---|
Pessoa | People |
Ascendência | Ancestry |
Descendência | Offspring |
Casa | House |
Profissão | Job |
Educação | Education |
Episódio | Episode |
Namoro | Dating |
Acidente | Accident |
Migração | Migration |
Festividade | Festivity |
Evento Político | Political Event |
Evento Catastrófico | Catastrophic Event |
Evento Político | Political Event |
Casamento | Marriage |
Nascimento | Birth |
Sonho | Dream |
Infância | Childhood |
Costumes | Uses |
Quotidiano | Quotidian |
Lazer | Leisure |
Religião | Religion |
Filosofia de vida | Life's Philosophy |
Identified Relations
Relation term | English explanation term |
---|---|
exerce | Performs |
éRetratada | Depicted |
visita | Visits |
vive | Lives |
recebe | Receives |
narra | Tells |
tem | Has |
participa | Enrolls |
tipo | Has-type |
ocorre | Occurs |
dizRespeito | Refers to |
2 After the first phase we realized that we could still add some more concepts to make a more complete ontology:
Identified Concepts
Concept term | English explanation term |
---|---|
Estado Civil | Marital Status |
Sexo | Sex |
Habilitações Literárias | Literacy |
Partido Político | Political Party |
Primeira Comunhão | First Communion |
Morte | Death |
Batismo | Baptism |
Fotos | Photos |