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An Open Approach To Contextualising Heterogeneous Cultural Heritage Datasets, John Mcauley, James Carswell
An Open Approach To Contextualising Heterogeneous Cultural Heritage Datasets, John Mcauley, James Carswell
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This paper describes a semantic museum application, which aims to present a holistic impression of the Etruscan civilisation. Through the use of a distributed computing paradigm and the CIDOC CRM ontology, the system presents a unified view of a fragmented heritage, while supporting browse and search at a semantic level. Within the cultural heritage world, however, much value is placed on ‘context’, both in describing and presenting heritage artefacts. From this perspective, a platform built upon the distributed search paradigm, although useful in many respects, does not convey how an artefact sits within a broader setting. Narrative concepts are proposed …