Semantic annotation and search of cultural-heritage collections: The MultimediaN E-Culture demonstrator

Guus Schreiber; Alia Amin; Lora Aroyo; Mark van Assem; Victor de Boer; Lynda Hardman; Michiel Hildebrand; Borys Omelayenko; Jacco van Osenbruggen; Anna Tordai; Jan Wielemaker; Bob Wielinga

doi:10.1016/j.websem.2008.08.001

Semantic annotation and search of cultural-heritage collections: The MultimediaN E-Culture demonstrator

Guus Schreiber, Alia Amin, Lora Aroyo, Mark van Assem, Victor de Boer, Lynda Hardman, Michiel Hildebrand, Borys Omelayenko, Jacco van Osenbruggen, Anna Tordai, Jan Wielemaker, Bob Wielinga

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In this article we describe a Semantic Web application for semantic annotation and search in large virtual collections of cultural-heritage objects, indexed with multiple vocabularies. During the annotation phase we harvest, enrich and align collection metadata and vocabularies. The semantic-search facilities support keyword-based queries of the graph (currently 20 M triples), resulting in semantically grouped result clusters, all representing potential semantic matches of the original query. We show two sample search scenario's. The annotation and search software is open source and is already being used by third parties. All software is based on established Web standards, in particular HTML/XML, CSS, RDF/OWL, SPARQL and JavaScript.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	243-249
Number of pages	7
Journal	Web Semantics
Volume	6
Issue number	4
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1016/j.websem.2008.08.001
State	Published - Nov 2008
Externally published	Yes

Keywords

Digital heritage
Semantic annotation
Semantic search
Virtual collections

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