Ontology-Based Representation of the Traditional Practices of Moroccan Safi Pottery.

This release contains the first publicly available version of the Safi Pottery Ontology, an ontology designed to formally represent the traditional knowledge, actors, tools, and processes associated with pottery craftsmanship in Safi, Morocco.It provides a structured semantic model to support documentation, preservation, and digital dissemination of artisanal cultural heritage. Key features Core classes representing artisans, materials, tools, workshops, and pottery objects Detailed modeling of the handcrafted pottery workflow (from clay extraction to final decoration and firing) Object properties defining relationships between practitioners, resources, and production stages Data properties enabling annotation and linking with external knowledge resources OWL-compliant ontology compatible with Protégé and Semantic Web frameworks Intended use The ontology may be used for: Knowledge representation and semantic enrichment of craft-related data Cultural heritage archiving projects Linked Data and semantic annotation applications Academic and educational research in knowledge engineering, ethnography, or digital humanities