This paper discusses the possibility of constructing an archival system to contribute to Kazuo Inamori’s research, especially the possibility of expanding from an archive of materials to what could be called an archive of knowledge, from the viewpoint of Actor-Network Theory. Actor-Network Theory, especially the ideas developed by Bruno Latour, suggests that we should treat all things as open to various frames of reference, record their links with various frames of reference, and continue to describe them so that we can discover previously unseen relationships by tracing the links between things. In order to implement this idea in an archival system, and to extend the archive of materials limited to a single frame of reference as bibliographic information, the following three conditions must be met: firstly, to be able to describe things in a way that is open to various frames of reference; secondly, to be able to record links to multiple frames of reference; and thirdly, to be able to trace the relationships between various things, including those frames of reference. In the Resource Description Framework (RDF) standards actually used in the Semantic Web and Linked Data, any thing can be uniquely identified by an IRI, and at the same time, by being a subject, it is open to various properties, i.e. predicates and objects. In this respect, it is possible to describe things in a way that is open to various frames of reference. In RDF, it is also possible to describe multiple predicates and objects for a single subject, i.e. multiple triples with the same subject. In this respect, it is possible to record links to multiple frames of reference. Furthermore, in RDF, it is possible to describe the linkage of things by forming a chain of triples. In this respect, it is possible to trace the relationship between various things including the frames of reference. The use of RDF opens up the possibility of extending from an archive of materials to what could be called an archive of knowledge inspired by Actor-Network Theory.
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