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fabsssss/modip-plastics-knowledge-graph

MoDiP Plastics Knowledge Graph A standards-based knowledge graph built from the full open catalogue of the Museum of Design in Plastics (MoDiP, Arts University Bournemouth), the UK's only accredited museum devoted to plastics in design, as a worked example of turning a small museum's raw "collections as data" into something computable. 11,865 object records (the complete MoDiP set), retrieved from the Museum Data Service under CC BY 4.0. 485,013-triple CIDOC-CRM (Linked Art… See the full description on the dataset page: https://huggingface.co/datasets/fabsssss/modip-plastics-knowledge-graph.

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MoDiP Plastics Knowledge Graph

A standards-based knowledge graph built from the full open catalogue of the Museum of Design in Plastics (MoDiP, Arts University Bournemouth), the UK's only accredited museum devoted to plastics in design, as a worked example of turning a small museum's raw "collections as data" into something computable.

—11,865 object records (the complete MoDiP set), retrieved from the Museum Data Service under CC BY 4.0.
—485,013-triple CIDOC-CRM (Linked Art compatible) instance graph.
—137-concept SKOS materials taxonomy grounded in polymer science (thermoplastic / thermoset / elastomer / biopolymer), resolving 99.9% of 35,172 free-text material assertions and unifying abbreviation / full-name / trade-name synonyms (PP = polypropylene; Perspex → PMMA; Bakelite → phenol formaldehyde).
—55 verified skos:exactMatch links to the Getty Art & Architecture Thesaurus (query-reconciled, exact-label only).
—289 object-to-object variant / same-mould edges recovered from accession numbers written into free-text descriptions.
—Release gate: SHACL `conforms=True` + closed-world vocabulary check with 0 dangling concept references.

Files

Path	Content
`data/raw/modip_records.json.gz`	the raw MoDiP records as fetched (gzipped)
`ontology/materials.ttl`	SKOS materials taxonomy (137 concepts, AAT-aligned)
`ontology/processes.ttl`, `ontology/domains.ttl`	process & use-domain taxonomies
`build/modip-crm.ttl.gz`	the CIDOC-CRM instance graph (gzipped Turtle)
`build/dag_variants.ttl` / `.csv`	the variant graph
`docs/spectrum-crm-mapping.md`	the Spectrum → CIDOC-CRM crosswalk
`BUILD_REPORT.md`	exactly what was fetched, computed and could not be obtained

Standards & modelling

No bespoke class ontology is minted. Instances use CIDOC-CRM (ISO 21127); vocabularies use SKOS; materials align to Getty AAT; source records are Spectrum. Only concept and instance URIs are local, plus two clearly-marked polymer-science facet properties (thermalBehaviour, origin). See the Spectrum→CRM mapping.

Licence & attribution

—Source records © Museum of Design in Plastics / Arts University Bournemouth, published via the Museum Data Service under CC BY 4.0. Per-record rights are retained in the graph (dct:license, dct:rightsHolder).
—This transformation (taxonomies, mappings, graph) is released under CC BY 4.0.
—Endorsed by neither MoDiP nor the Museum Data Service.

Provenance & reproduction

Full pipeline and honesty log in the companion repository: github.com/fabio-rovai/open-ontologies → case-studies/modip-plastics-kg. run_all.sh regenerates and revalidates the whole graph from the committed data.

Built by The Tesseract Academy. If you run or fund a collection and want your catalogue made this queryable: fabio@thetesseractacademy.com.