ISWC 2006 - (LNCS 4273

MultimediaN E-Culture Demonstrator

Guus Schreiber¹, Alia Amin², Mark van Assem¹, Victor de Boer³, Lynda Hardman^2,5, Michiel Hildebrand², Laura Hollink¹, Zhisheng Huang², Janneke van Kersen⁴, Marco de Niet⁴, Borys Omelayenko¹, Jacco van Ossenbruggen², Ronny Siebes¹, Jos Taekema⁴, Jan Wielemaker³, and Bob Wielinga³

¹Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam (VU), Computer Science
http://www.cs.vu.nl

²Center for Math. and Computer Science CWI, Amsterdam
http://www.cwi.nl/ins2

³Universiteit van Amsterdam (UvA), HCS Lab
http://hcs.science.uva.nl/

⁴Digital Heritage Netherlands (DEN), The Hague
http://www.den.nl

⁵Technical University Eindhoven (TU/e)
http://w3.win.tue.nl/en/

Abstract. The main objective of the MultimediaN E-Culture project is to demonstrate how novel semantic-web and presentation technologies can be deployed to provide better indexing and search support within large virtual collections of cultural-heritage resources. The architecture is fully based on open web standards, in particular XML, SVG, RDF/OWL and SPARQL. One basic hypothesis underlying this work is that the use of explicit background knowledge in the form of ontologies/vocabularies/thesauri is in particular useful in information retrieval in knowledge-rich domains.

LNCS 4273, p. 951 ff.

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