Title
A systemic approach for effective semantic access to cultural content
Abstract
A large on-going activity for digitization, dissemination and preservation of cultural heritage is taking place in Europe and the United States, which involves all types of cultural institutions, i.e., galleries, libraries, museums, archives and all types of cultural content. The development of Europeana, as a single point of access to European Cultural Heritage, has probably been the most important result of the activities in the field till now. Semantic interoperability is a key issue in these developments. This paper presents a system that provides content providers and users with the ability to map, in an effective way, their own metadata schemas to common domain standards and the Europeana (ESE, EDM) data models. Based on these mappings, semantic enrichment and query answering techniques are proposed as a means tbr providing effective access of users to digital cultural heritage. An experimental study is presented involving content from national and thematic content aggregators in Europeana, which illustrates the proposed system capabilities.
Year
DOI
Venue
2012
10.3233/SW-2012-0051
Semantic Web
Keywords
Field
DocType
effective semantic access,cultural heritage,proposed system capability,thematic content aggregators,semantic enrichment,content provider,semantic interoperability,cultural institution,cultural content,systemic approach,digital cultural heritage,effective access
Query Rewriting,Metadata,Data modeling,World Wide Web,Digitization,Cultural heritage,Information retrieval,Semantic interoperability,Thematic map,Geography,Schema (psychology)
Journal
Volume
Issue
ISSN
3
1
1570-0844
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
6
0.89
15
Authors
4
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Ilianna Kollia11009.71
Vassilis Tzouvaras265241.89
Nasos Drosopoulos3102.34
Giorgos Stamou4120076.88