Preservation of bread-made museum collections by coating technology

Evaluating bacterial pathogen DNA preservation in museum osteological collections.

Reports of bacterial pathogen DNA sequences obtained from archaeological bone specimens raise the possibility of greatly improving our understanding of the history of infectious diseases. However, the survival of pathogen DNA over long time periods is poorly characterized, and scepticism remains about the reliability of these data. In order to explore the survival of bacterial pathogen DNA in b...

Reassembling Ethnographic Museum Collections

This volume addresses fundamental questions about the nature, value, and efficacy of museum collections in a postcolonial world and the agency of indigenous people in their production. The book’s primary focus lies with those objects that, by way of their specific histories, have been defined as “ethnographic”; however, the question of the contexts in which things are defined as “art” as oppose...

Visual Topical Analysis of Museum Collections

Knowledge-Based Exploration of Multimedia Museum Collections

S. GOODALL, P. H. LEWIS, K. MARTINEZ, P. A. S. SINCLAIR, F. GIORGINI, M. J. ADDIS, C.LAHANIER, J. STEVENSON School of Electronics and Computer Science, University of Southampton, SO171QP, UK. [sg02r,phl,km,pass]@ecs.soton.ac.uk Giunti Interactive Labs, Sestri Levante, 16039, Italy. [email protected] IT Innovation Centre, Southampton, SO167NP, UK. [email protected] Centre de R...

Recommendations based on semantically enriched museum collections

This article presents the CHIP demonstrator for providing personalized access to digital museum collections. It consists of three main components: Art Recommender, Tour Wizard, and Mobile Tour Guide. Based on the semantically-enriched Rijksmuseum Amsterdam collection, we show how Semantic Web technologies can be deployed to (partially) solve three important challenges for recommender systems ap...