We have proposed Meta-Museum as a new knowledge sharing environment where experts and novices can communicate with each other with agent support. Museum exhibitions are thought to be well organized representations of the expert knowledge of curators, but they are just one example of structures of knowledge among many possibilities, given to museum visitors in a one-sided way. Therefore, traditi...

Few art museums, collections or temporary exhibitions in Europe (or elsewhere) provide opportunities for their visiting publics to directly or indirectly explore for themselves, aspects of the permanent collections (whether hung, on loan or in store) in any depth; temporary exhibitions and their contexts; the work of an individual artist in the context of other work and influences; the historic...

Exhibition guide system contain various information pertaining to exhibitors, products and events that are happening during the exhibitions. The system would be more useful if it is augmented with a recommender system. Our recommender system would recommend users a list of interesting exhibitors based on associations that mined from the web server logs. The recommendations are ranked based on v...

In this paper, we argue for a need to shift focus in semantic search from the items themselves to using them as lenses to wider topics. A system for doing this in the cultural heritage domain is presented, duplicating on the web the way exhibitions in the real world are organized. An interface for specifying such exhibitions is presented, combining a general narrative pattern with semantic auto...

This paper gives an overview on crowdsourcing practices in virtual museums. Engaged nonprofessionals and specialists support curators in creating digital 2D or 3D exhibits, exhibitions and tour planning and enhancement of metadata using the Virtual Museum and Cultural Object Exchange Format (ViMCOX). ViMCOX provides the semantic structure of exhibitions and complete museums and includes new fea...

Puerperal mastitis is a potentially serious illness among lactating women which traditionally has been thought to be associated with primiparity, stress, improper nursing technique, and incomplete emptying of the breast. However, none of these putative associations has been examined analytically in recent years. Further, the incidence of mastitis in the United States has not been estimated sinc...