The multilingual Semantic Web system covers semantic data from the Gothenburg City Museum database and DBpedia. The grammar enables automatic coherent descriptions of paintings and answering to queries over them in 15 languages for baseline functionality and in 5 languages with an extended semantic coverage. The system contains an automatic process for translating museum names from Wikipedia. The process can be easily extended to translate names of painters, places, etc.
The system provides a public SPARQL endpoint against which the user can explore the knowledge base with manually written natural language queries.
We created the Museum Reason-able View where several ontologies were linked, including: the CIDOC-CRM, the Painting ontology and the Museum Artifacts Ontology (MAO).
We build an ontology-based system for communication of museum content on the Semantic Web and made it accessible in 15 languages. The multilingual system automatically generates coherent Wikipedia-like articles. It has been made available online for cross-language retrieval and representation using Semantic Web technology.
We were able to reuse the query technology that has been developed in WP4 and adapt it successfully to our needs.
We extended the semantic coverage of the grammar to five languages and demonstrated the benefits of exploiting a modular approach in the context of multilingual Semantic Web.