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Culture Documents
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Description
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During the past few years, great and continually increasing scientific
interest has been paid towards the efficient dissemination and
management of the world's cultural assets on the Web. As more and more
cultural heritage institutions tend to exploit World Wide Web's technologies
in order to render their collections globally available, integrated access to
this vast amount of content has become an imperative need. Traditionally,
the main requisite for integrating diverse resources has been syntactic
interoperability. However, in the more knowledge-intensive world of the
Semantic Web a number of powerful techniques are offering the promise of
knowledge-based management and retrieval instead of mere syntactic data
exchange. In particular, techniques for obtaining semantic interoperability
and reasoning over metadata and ontologies have been proven powerful
tools towards this direction.
In the cultural heritage field, significant efforts have been initiated for
achieving semantic-aware data integration, but many issues are still under
discussion and problems remain unsolved. Hundreds of existing digital
libraries and repository systems, responsible for gathering and
disseminating digital objects originating from cultural assets, still lack
common standards and best practices for properly ingesting and
publishing knowledge. The community is looking for powerful semantic
search and navigation mechanisms able to efficiently retrieve and interlink
distributed, heterogeneous knowledge about cultural heritage. In addition,
it is not clear what might be the most suitable evaluation techniques for
analyzing the suggested methods and tools.
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In particular, topics of interest include, but are not limited to, the
following:
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Dimitrios A. Koutsomitropoulos
High Performance Information Systems Laboratory
Computer Engineering and Informatics Dpt.
University of Patras
Patras-Rio, Greece
E-mail: kotsomit@hpclab.ceid.upatras.gr
Eero Hyvφnen
Semantic Computing Research Group
Department of Media Technology
School of Science and Technology
Aalto University
Finland
E-mail: eero.hyvonen@tkk.fi
Theodore S. Papatheodorou
High Performance Information Systems Laboratory
Computer Engineering and Informatics Dpt.
University of Patras
Patras-Rio, Greece
E-mail: tsp@hpclab.ceid.upatras.gr
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