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A Portal for Publishing Museum Collections on the Semantic Web

Eero Hyvönen, Miikka Junnila, Suvi Kettula, Eetu Mäkelä, Samppa Saarela, Mirva Salminen, Arttu Valo, Kim Viljanen

This paper presents a scheme for publishing museum collections on the Semantic Web. It is shown how museums with their semantically rich and interrelated collection content could start creating large, consolidated semantic collection portals together on the web. By semantic web techniques, it is possible to make collections semantically interoperable and provide the museum visitors with intelligent content-based search and browsing services to the global collection base. The idea and its challenges are addressed through a real-world application, MuseumFinland. It is a semantic portal for Finnish museums to publish their collections on the Semantic Web.

Keywords: semantic web, portal, RDF, search, recommendation

Citation: Eero Hyvönen, Miikka Junnila, Suvi Kettula, Eetu Mäkelä, Samppa Saarela, Mirva Salminen, Arttu Valo, Kim Viljanen: A Portal for Publishing Museum Collections on the Semantic Web. In R.López de Mántaras and L.Saitta (eds.): ECAI2004, Proceedings of the 16th European Conference on Artificial Intelligence, IOS Press, Amsterdam, 2004, pp.715-719.


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ECAI-2004 is organised by the European Coordinating Committee for Artificial Intelligence (ECCAI) and hosted by the Universitat Politčcnica de Valčncia on behalf of Asociación Espańola de Inteligencia Artificial (AEPIA) and Associació Catalana d'Intel-ligčncia Artificial (ACIA).