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At an archaeological dig, interpretations are built around discovered artifacts based on measurements and informed intuition. These interpretations are semi-structured and organic, yet existing tools do not capture their creation or evolution. Patina of Notes (PoN) is an application designed to tackle this, and is underpinned by the Xeros data model. Xeros is a graph structure and a set of operations that can deal with the addition, edition, and removal of interpretations. This data model is a specialisation of the W3C PROV provenance data model, tracking the evolution of interpretations. The model is presented, with operations defined formally, and characteristics of the representation that are beneficial to implementations are discussed.
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Jewell, M.O., Costanza, E., Frankland, T., Earl, G., Moreau, L. (2012). The Xeros Data Model: Tracking Interpretations of Archaeological Finds. In: Groth, P., Frew, J. (eds) Provenance and Annotation of Data and Processes. IPAW 2012. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 7525. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-34222-6_11
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