WP8: Case Study: Cultural Heritage

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 CIDOC-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).

Links to Swedish museum databases who use the Carlotta system which is built upon the CIDOC-CRM model: