Academic Article
Extended Matrix Manager: an open tool for EM based knowledge graphs management
- Title
- Extended Matrix Manager: an open tool for EM based knowledge graphs management
- Date
- 2024
- Is Part Of
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Archeologia e Calcolatori
- Volume
- 35
- Issue
- 2
- Pages
- 167-176
- Language
- eng
- Rights
- CC BY-NC-ND 4.0
- Abstract
- The following contribution aims at presenting a new free and open source software, EM Manager, created to assist archaeologists at approaching virtual reconstruction projects with the Extended Matrix (method developed at the Digital Heritage Innovation Lab - DHILab - of the CNR-ISPC of Rome). EM Manager is a free and open source standalone software, already available on GitHub, that allows to convert a table into an Extended Matrix. The software represents a remarkable update of the Extended Matrix Framework and, due to its features, it will expand the user base, since it helps EM users to cover one, or more, of the ‘7 key roles’ considered by the Extended Matrix method. In addition, the fact that EM Manager is Python based ensures the possibility for future implementation with other platforms (such as QGIS and Blender) based on the same language.
- Zotero References Collection
- https://www.zotero.org/groups/5293298/bidiar/collections/8AXL7F2S
- Cites
- From Field Archaeology to Virtual Reconstruction: A Five Steps Method Using the Extended Matrix
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- ATON: An Open-Source Framework for Creating Immersive, Collaborative and Liquid Web-Apps for Cultural Heritage
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- Virtual Reconstruction as a Scientific Tool
- An Online Dissemination Workflow for the Scientific Process in CH through Semantic 3D: EMtools and EMviq Open Source Tools
- QGIS, pyarchinit and blender: Surveying and Management of Archaeological data with Open Source Solutions
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a) Schematic representation of the Extended Matrix with its main nodes and the color scale explained; b) schematic representation of the relation between the Extended Matrix and the Extended Matrix Framework -
The ‘Export GraphML’ button on the ‘Control systems’ panel of pyArchInit, within QGIS. This function allows to automatically generate an Extended Matrix using the documentation stored in pyArchInit -
a) View of the GitHub online repository where all the versions of EM Manager are stored; b) the ‘File’ menu of EM Manager where all the functions of the software are displayed; c) panoramic view of how EM Manager displays imported data stored in a table; d) example of how the ‘Check Error’ function of EM Manager reports errors to user -
View of the Extended Matrix graph in yED after the ‘Swimlane’ option has been applied. In the example nodes are displayed with respect to the formalism of the Extended Matrix -
a) 3D viewer of EM Manager with the three-dimensional representation of both the Extended Matrix and Proxy models; b) example of data visualization in EM Manager when files are connected to the nodes of the EM
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