Extending Domain-Specific Resources to Enable Semantic Access to Cultural Heritage Data

Contents: 1. Introduction 2. Related Work 2.1. Semantic Web Technologies in the Cultural Heritage Domain 2.2. Information Extraction 3. A Case Study: Tate Online 3.1. Users’ Requirements for Semantic Search 3.2. Prototype Development 4. Semantic Annotation 4.1. Information Sources 4.2. Recognising Imperfections in the Information 4.3. Extending Pre-Existing Sources with Information Extraction 5. Evaluation 5.1. Evaluating Semantic Annotation 5.2. Semantic …

Putting Hybrid Cultural Data on the Semantic Web

Contents: 1. Introduction 2. Converting Structured Data to RDF 3. Adding Text Relations – txt2rdf 4. Query Experiments 5. Conclusions References This paper explains how to augment structured data with “facts” automatically extracted from free text. This is done via a pipeline, txt2rdf, which takes in plain text at one end and pumps out RDF triples at the other. These …

Towards Affordable Disclosure of Spoken Heritage Archives

Contents: 1. Introduction 2. From spoken-word archive to multimedia information portal 3. Automatic annotation using automatic speech recognition 4. The Buchenwald user interface 5. Discussion and conclusion References This paper presents and discusses ongoing work aiming at affordable disclosure of real-world spoken heritage archives in general, and in particular of a collection of recorded video interviews with Dutch survivors of …

Metadata and Semantics in Digital Object Collections: A Case-Study on CIDOC-CRM and Dublin Core and a Prototype Implementation

Contents: 1. Introduction 2. Digital Repository Systems for Cultural Heritage 3. From Metadata to Ontologies 4. Towards a Semantic Enrichment of CIDOC-CRM 5. Bringing Dublin Core to the Semantic Web 6. A Prototype Implementation 7. Conclusions De auteurs bespreken twee metadata standaarden die in de cultureel erfgoedsector veel gebruikt worden voor de ontsluiting van digitale collecties: CIDOC-CRM en Dublin Core. …

D3.1 Preliminary document analyzing and summarizing metadata standards and issues across Europe

Contents: 1. Introduction 2. Data Preservation Strategies 3. Preservation Metadata Initiatives and Standards 4. Relevant Framework 7 Projects 5. Relevant Framework 6 Projects 6. Other Relevant Projects and Developments 7. Institutional Issues 8. Preservation Metadata for Games 9. Non-preservation Metadata for Games 10. Abandonware Sites 11. Abbreviations 12. Bibliography 13. Endnotes This large deliverable (85 pages) from the KEEP project …