Semantic Technologies for Cultural Heritage Ongoing Projects at Ontotext Mariana Damova, PhD September, 2011

#2 September 2011 Museum Reason-able View Introduction A reason-able View of Linked Data for Cultural Heritage (Molto, FP-7) Semantic publishing of Bulgarian Cultural Heritage in Europeana (with FMI) Research Space (Btirish Museum)

A Reason-able View of Linked Data for Cultural Heritage

#4 September 2011 Museum Reason-able View Introduction Linked Open Data combining facts and knowledge from different datasets is the ultimate goal of the Semantic Web Need for convincing real life use cases demanstrating the benefits of these technologies MacManus, the Founder and Editor-in-Chief of ReadWriteWeb defined an exemplary test for the Semantic Web cities around the world which have Modigliani art works

#5 September 2011 Museum Reason-able View FactForge of Ontotext solves the Modigliani query The cultural heritage domain can become a useful usecase for the application of semantic technologies.

#6 September 2011 Museum Reason-able View Linked Open Data – the Vision Tim Berners-Lee graphs published on the web and explorable across servers in a manner similar to the way the HTML web is navigated Design principles of Linked Open Data – Use URIs to identify things. – Use HTTP URIs so that these things can be referred to and looked up ("dereferenced") by people and user agents. – Provide useful information about the thing when its URI is dereferenced, using standard formats such as RDF/XML. – Include links to other, related URIs in the exposed data to improve discovery of other related information on the Web.

#7 September 2011 Museum Reason-able View Linked Open Data Cloud 203 datasets as of september 2011

#8 September 2011 Museum Reason-able View Reason-able View – Linked Open Data Management Using linked data for data management is considered to have great potential for the transformation of the web of data into a giant global graph (Heath, & Bizer, 2011). Still, there are several challenges that have to be overcome to make this possible, namely: LOD are hard to comprehend; Diversity comes at a price; LOD is unreliable; Dealing with data distributed on the web is slow; No consistency is guaranteed. Using reason-able views (Kiryakov et al., 2009a) – a solution to LOD management.

#9 September 2011 Museum Reason-able View Reason-able View – Linked Open Data Management An approach for reasoning with and managing linked data - an assembly of independent datasets, which can be used as a single body of knowledge with respect to reasoning and query evaluation - lowering the cost and the risks of using specific linked datasets for specific purposes The linkage between the data - at the schema level - at the instance level Accessible via - SPARQL endpoint - keywords Queries with predicates from different datasets “Federated” results from different datasets

#10 September 2011 Museum Reason-able View Museum Reason-able View – Data Requirements: - the ability to handle generic knowledge, such as people, institutions, and locations - the ability to handle specific subject domains, such as the cultural heritage and museums Datasets covering the Generic Knowledge of the Museum Reason-able View. - DBpedia - the RDF-ized version of Wikipedia, describing more than 3.5 million things and covers 97 languages. - Geonames - a geographic database that covers 6 million of the most significant geographical features on Earth. - PROTON - an upper-level ontology, 542 entity classes and 183 properties.

#11 September 2011 Museum Reason-able View Museum Reason-able View – Museum Data Models CIDOC – CRM developed by the International Council of Museum’s Committee for Documentation (ICOM-CIDOC) an upper-level ontology for cultural and natural history for museum professionals to perform their work well 90 classes and 148 properties - Entity, Temporal Entity, Time Span, Place, Dimension, - Production, Creation, Dissolution, Acquisition, Curation

#12 September 2011 Museum Reason-able View Museum Reason-able View – Museum Data Models K-samsök, the Swedish Open Cultural Heritage (SOCH) a Web service for applications to retrieve data from cultural heritage institutions or associations with Cultural Heritage information. includes features which are divided in the following categories: - Identification of the item in the collection - Internet address, and thumbnail address - Description of the item - Description of the presentation of the item, including a thumbnail - Geographic location coordinates - Museum information about the item - Context, when was it created, to which style it belongs, etc. - Item specification, e.g. size, and type of the item – painting, sculpture and the like

#13 September 2011 Museum Reason-able View Museum Reason-able View – Museum Data Models MAO (Museum Artefact Ontology) link between K-samsök, CIDOC-CRM and real museum data

#14 September 2011 Museum Reason-able View Museum Reason-able View – Gothenburg City Museum Data 8900 museum objects in two museum collections – GSM and GIM 39 properties describe each museum object The Gothenburg city mueum data is integrated by using predicates from CIDOC-CRM, PROTON, MAO, and linkages to DBpedia

#15 September 2011 Museum Reason-able View Museum Reason-able View – Architecture Process of triplification and localisation of GCM data in English.

#16 September 2011 Museum Reason-able View Museum Reason-able View – Environment OWLIM Ontologies and data loaded with full materialization – Dbpedia 3.6, Geonames 2.2.1, PROTON 3.0, CIDOC-CRM 1.0, MAO, GCM data 20% more retrievable statements than loaded explicit statements – 257,774,678 (explicit) – 305,313,536 (retrievable) SPARQL endpoint – Museum artefacts preserved in the museum since 2005 – Paintings from the GSM collection – Inventory numbers of the paintings from the GSM collection – Location of the objects created by Anders Hafrin – Paintings with length less than 1 m – etc.

#17 September 2011 Museum Reason-able View Related Work MAO – Finland Europeana – EU VUA – Amsterdam Museum with semantic technologies within Europeana connect British Museum – Research Space just won tender funded by Melon foundation Contribution of the paper: First to link real museum data to LOD First to use schema-level mapping to data integration in a specific domain like cultural heritage

#18 September 2011 Museum Reason-able View Related Work MAO – Finland Europeana – EU VUA – Amsterdam Museum with semantic technologies within Europeana connect British Museum – Research Space just won tender funded by Melon foundation Contribution of the paper: First to link real museum data to LOD First to use schema-level mapping to data integration in a specific domain like cultural heritage

#19 September 2011 Museum Reason-able View Conclusion Knowledge Representation Infrastructure Method of managing linked data Implementation of Museum Reason-able view extendable with information from other Swedish museums links to general knowledge from LOD datasets Future work Experiments with the Museum Reason-able view Querying and Navigation Extension of the data models, for example with a painting ontology Querying structured information in natural language Representing structured results in natural language MOLTO, FP7-ICT

Semantic publishing of Bulgarian Cultural Heritage in Europeana

#21 September 2011 Museum Reason-able View Scope of the Project Digitalization of selected Bulgarian Cultural Heritage Conversion in semantic format Publishing in Europeana Selected Bulgarian Cultural Heritage – Cyrilo-Methodius manuscripts and psaltirs – Thracian golden treasures, thumbs, temples Additioanal objectives: – Establishing of a process for publishing, easy to adopt by other cultural institutions – Establishing of a group (Special Interest Group, SIG) for publisihing in Europeana, coordination with potential partners – Establishing of a technical aggredator for Bulgaria (

Research Space

#23 September 2011 Museum Reason-able View Scope of the Project To create an RDF infrastructure based on the CIDOC-CRM ontology that harmonises data contributed by different cultural heritage and arts organisations. To provide collaboration environments and tools to enable effective online scholarly communication with direct access to supporting data. The main issue with current online scholarly collaboration is that the data is not, ‘on hand’. The ability to draw upon source materials during research is a major enhancement to this type of environment. To provide research tools that harness the benefits of semantic data for the discovery of new information and knowledge and support a range of research methods and techniques for analysing data, information and multimedia resources. Allow publication of data and documentation in web applications, and as linked data, which would be available to the scholarly community working outside the ResearchSpace environment. Be accessible to a wide range of humanities organisations, large or small and regardless of internal resources. Provide a full web browser interface, and open technology architecture to encourage community development.

#24 September 2011 Museum Reason-able View Thank you for your attention! Questions