The ARIADNEplus Knowledge Base: a Linked Open Data set for archaeological research

The ARIADNE infrastructure provides tools and services for researchers to address archaeological grand challenges that require discovery and analysis of information scattered across different thematic and geographically distributed sources. The ARIADNEplus Knowledge Base (KB) is an archaeological Linked Open Data set modelled according to the ARIADNE ontology, based on CIDOC-CRM, and provided by an international network of organisations leaders in different domains of archaeological sciences. In February 2024, the ARIADNEplus KB features about 4 million archaeological resources. Thanks to the ARIADNE infrastructure, data providers increased the level of fairness of their resources and contributed to a unique asset for the archaeology research community, the European Open Science Cloud and society at large.