Semantic Web examples from E-Culture

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Semantic Webexamples from E-Culture

• Guus Schreiber
• VU schreiber_at_cs.vu.nl

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The Web resources and links
URL
URL
Web link
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The Semantic Web typed resources and links
Painting Woman with hat SFMOMA
Dublin Core creator
ULAN Henri Matisse
Web link
URL
URL
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Principle 1 semantic annotation

• Description of web objects with concepts from a
  shared vocabulary

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Principle 2 semantic search

• Search for objects which are linked via concepts
  (semantic link)
• Use the type of semantic link to provide
  meaningful presentation of the search results

ape
great ape
urang-utang
orange
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Principle 3 multiple vocabularies. or the myth
of a unified vocabulary

• In large virtual collections there are always
  multiple vocabularies
• In multiple languages
• Every vocabulary has its own perspective
• You cant just merge them
• But you can use vocabularies jointly by defining
  a limited set of links
• Vocabulary alignment
• It is surprising what you can do with just a few
  links

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Example
Tokugawa
AAT style/period Edo (Japanese period)
Tokugawa
SVCN period Edo
SVCN is local in-house thesaurus
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E-Culture demonstrator

• Part of large Dutch knowledge-economy project
  MultimediaN
• Partners VU, CWI, UvA, DEN,ICN
• People
• Alia Amin, Lora Aroyo, Mark van Assem, Victor de
  Boer, Lynda Hardman, Michiel Hildebrand, Laura
  Hollink, Marco de Niet, Borys Omelayenko,
  Marie-France van Orsouw, Jos Taekema, Annemiek
  Teesing, Anna Tordai, Jan Wielemaker, Bob
  Wielinga
• Artchive.com, ICN Rijksmuseum Amsterdam, Dutch
  ethnology musea (Amsterdam, Leiden), National
  Library (Bibliopolis)

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Culture Web demonstratorhttp//e-culture.multimed
ian.nl
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16 Nov 2006
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Perspectives

• Basic Semantic Web technology is ready for
  deployment
• Web 2.0 facilities
• Involving community experts in annotation
• Personalization, myArt
• Social barriers have to be overcome!
• open door policy
• Involvement of general public gt issues of
  quality
• Importance of using open standards
• Away from custom-made flashy web sites