Museum Collections and the Semantic Web

MuseumFinland — Finnish Museums on the Semantic Web User’s Perspective

This paper presents a semantic portal, MuseumFinland, for publishing heterogeneous museum collections on the Semantic Web. The application is presented from the viewpoints of the end-user and the museums providing the contents. By semantic web techniques, it is possible to make collections semantically interoperable and provide the museum visitors with intelligent content-based search and brows...

A Cultural Community Portal for Publishing Museum Collections on the Semantic Web

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...

MuseumFinland - Finnish museums on the semantic web

This article presents the semantic portal MUSEUMFINLAND for publishing heterogeneous museum collections on the Semantic Web. It is shown how museums with their semantically rich and interrelated collection content can create a large, consolidated semantic collection portal together on the web. By sharing a set of ontologies, it is possible to make collections semantically interoperable, and pro...

CHIP Demonstrator: Semantics-driven Recommendations and Museum Tour Generation

The main objective of the CHIP project is to demonstrate how Semantic Web technologies can be deployed to provide personalized access to digital museum collections. We illustrate our approach with the digital database ARIA of the Rijksmuseum Amsterdam5. For the semantic enrichment of the Rijksmuseum ARIA database we collaborated with the CATCH STITCH project6 to produce mappings to Iconclass7, ...