From Geophysics to Microgeophysics for Engineering and Cultural Heritage

Ontology Engineering in Yorùbá Cultural Heritage Domain

In this paper, we describe an engineering process of building an ontology for Yorùbá Cultural Heritage (YCH). The aim of this work is to design and implement an ontology representing knowledge embedded in YCH as a digital (documentation) resource. Building an indigenous knowledge management system requires a formal representation of YCH concepts and their relationships. Even so, YCH resources a...

CHiC 2011 - Cultural Heritage in CLEF: From Use Cases to Evaluation in Practice for Multilingual Information Access to Cultural Heritage

Digital libraries and other information systems that access Cultural Heritage (CH) materials are becoming increasingly complex. They must often manage a diverse range of content from different CH institutions – such as libraries, museums, written and audiovisual archives – and have to provide access to them in a unified and coherent way. The content from CH institutions is often multilingual an...

Ontologies for Cultural Heritage

In the cultural heritage domain information systems are increasingly deployed, digital representations of physical objects are produced in immense numbers and there is a strong political pressure on memory institutions to make their holdings accessible to the public in digital form. The sector splits into a set of disciplines with highly specialized fields. Due to the resulting diversity, one c...

Interfaces for Cultural Heritage

The newspapers and popular media constantly draw attention to an incredible rise in the amount of information especially through the Internet. Knight-Ridder News, for instance, recently cited an IBM study claiming that only seven percent of all corporate data is ever used. The amount of knowledge in great libraries and museums that is regularly used is less. Some major collections have as much ...

Cultural Heritage and Sustainable Tourism Development