@ARTICLE{10.21494/ISTE.OP.2019.0356, TITLE={The PACTOLS Thesaurus, a controlled and shared vocabulary system for archeology}, AUTHOR={Blandine Nouvel, }, JOURNAL={Digital Archaeology}, VOLUME={3}, NUMBER={Issue 1
Proceedings of the session n° III-3 (CA) of the XVIII° UISPP congress, Paris, June 2018 Session III-3 (CA). Construire des référentiels partagés : Webmapping et archéologie.
}, YEAR={2019}, URL={http://openscience.fr/The-PACTOLS-Thesaurus-a-controlled-and-shared-vocabulary-system-for-archeology}, DOI={10.21494/ISTE.OP.2019.0356}, ISSN={2515-7574}, ABSTRACT={Created by the Frantiq network (Federation and Resources on Antiquity), initially for the documentary indexing of scientific literature, PACTOLS is a unique reservoir of thematic metadata dedicated to archaeology. The thesaurus manager on which it relies, Opentheso, also provides it with technical capabilities for openness and interoperability that complement its standardization. In addition, the assignment of a permanent identifier to each concept makes each one a web object, identifiable anditable. PACTOLS is therefore a pivotal vocabulary that meets the standards of the semantic web and open science. It respects the FAIR principles: it can be consulted and freely accessible online, it is interoperable and reusable. Its lexical and normative characteristics represent a tool with a rare potential, which is now available to all actors in archaeology. The PACTOLS development project, conducted as part of the MASA Consortium of the Huma-Num Very Large Research Infrastructure, is intended to provide the archaeological community with a reference vocabulary that facilitates the sharing of scientific data and productions in archaeology on the web. It is oriented in two directions: on the one hand, it consolidates the semantic structure that leads to the reorganization of domains, facilitating navigation in the thesaurus. On the other hand, terminology content is enriched, in particular by the addition of speciality vocabularies and by alignment with scientific vocabularies and programs in the field, which are available on the web. The reorganisation of the thesaurus is carried out in close collaboration with the experts concerned. To this end, the modalities of dynamic contribution to the thesaurus are extended to all actors in the discipline, on the basis of specific authorization levels. A larger community is organized, trained and supported in the shared handling of the thesaurus. Because PACTOLS, as a reference vocabulary, is recommended as soon as excavation data are processed, for example at Inrap. It is also associated with programs to promote research data and integrated by several archaeological journals into their production, via the editorial production chain Metopes in XML-TEI.PACTOLS, a common reservoir for metadata in archaeology and archaeoscience, is a brick to data interoperability. It can be easily integrated into simple database systems or organized more powerfully with ontologies for a web of linked data.}}