WP No 8 Leader UGOT Start M13 End M30
WP Title Case Study: Cultural Heritage
The objective is to build an ontology-based multilingual grammar for museum information starting from a CRM ontology for artefacts at Gothenburg City Museum[1], using tools from WP4 and WP2. The grammar will enable descriptions of museum objects and answering to queries over them, covering 15 languages for baseline functionality and 5 languages with a more complete coverage. We will moreover build a prototype of a cross-language retrieval and representation system to be tested with objects in the museum, and automatically generate Wikipedia articles for museum artefacts in the 5 languages with extensive coverage.
The work is started by a study of the existing categorizations and metadata schemas adopted by the museum, as well as a corpus of texts in the current documentation which describe these objects (D8.1, UGOT and Ontotext). We will transform the CRM model into an ontology aligning it with the upper-level one in the base knowledge set (WP4) and modeling the museum object metadata as a domain specific knowledge base. Through the interoperability engine from WP4 and the IDE from WP2, we will semi-automatically create the translation grammar and further extend it (D8.2, UGOT, UHEL, UPC, Ontotext). The final result will be an online system enabling museum (virtual) visitors to use their language of preference to search for artefacts through semantic (structured) and natural language queries and examine information about them. We will also automatically generate a set of articles in the Wikipedia format describing museum artefacts in the 5 languages with extensive grammar coverage (D8.3, UGOT, Ontotext).
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Del. no |
Del. title |
Nature |
Date |
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D 8.1 |
Ontology and corpus study of the cultural heritage domain |
O |
M18 |
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D 8.2 |
Multilingual grammar for museum object descriptions |
P |
M24 |
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D 8.3 |
Translation and retrieval system for museum object descriptions |
P,Main |
M30 |
CIDOC Conceptual Reference Model (CRM), a high-level ontology to enable information integration for cultural heritage data and their correlation with library and archive information. The CIDOC CRM is now in the process to become an ISO standard.
The CIDOC CRM analyses the common conceptualizations behind data and metadata structures to support data transformation, mediation and merging. It is property-centric, in contrast to terminological systems. It is now in a very stable form, and contains 80 classes and 130 properties, both arranged in multiple isA hierarchies.
Semantic Computing Research Group (SeCo, Eero Hyvönen) has an Ontology for museum domain (MAO). MAO is an ontology for the museum domain, used for describing content such as museum items. MAO is ontologically mapped to the Finnish General Upper Ontology YSO and has been created as part of the FinnONTO-project. The most important application of MAO is The Semantic Portal for Finnish Culture Kulttuurisampo. Seco is specialised in indexing websites with ontologies. They are currently translating their ontologies into Finnish and Swedish.
To be completed...