This article presents the semantic portal MUSEUMFINLAND for publishing heterogeneous museum colle... more 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 provide the museum visitors with intelligent content-based search and browsing services to the global collection base. The architecture underlying MUSEUMFINLAND separates generic search and browsing services from the underlying application dependent schemas and metadata by a layer of logical rules. As a result, the portal creation framework and software developed has been applied successfully to other domains as well. MUSEUMFINLAND got the Semantic Web Challence Award (second prize) in 2004.
The goal of the Semantic Web is to share concept-based information in a versatile way on the Inte... more The goal of the Semantic Web is to share concept-based information in a versatile way on the Internet. This is achievable using formal data structures called ontologies. The goal of this research is to increase the usability of museum cataloging data in information retrieval. The work is interdisciplinary, involving craft science, terminology science, computer science, and museology. In the first part of the dissertation an ontology of concepts of textiles, garments, and accessories is developed for museum cataloging work. The ontology work was done with the help of thesauri, vocabularies, research reports, and standards. The basis of the ontology development was the Museoalan asiasanasto MASA, a thesaurus for museum cataloging work which has been enriched by other vocabularies. Concepts and terms concerning the research object, as well as the material names of textiles, costumes, and accessories, were focused on. The research method was terminological concept analysis complemented ...
This paper presents the semantic portal MUSEUMFINLAND for publishing museum collections on the Se... more This paper presents the semantic portal MUSEUMFINLAND for publishing 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 semantic web techniques, it is possible to make collections semantically interoparable and provide the museum visitors with inntelligent content-based search and browsing services to the global collection base.
This paper discusses the creation of terminologies, ontologies, and annotations when publishing s... more This paper discusses the creation of terminologies, ontologies, and annotations when publishing semantic web content. The problem is approached by presenting the content creation processes of the semantic portal MUSEUMFINLAND that is intended for ...
This paper presents a semantic portal, MuseumFinland, for publishing heterogeneous museum collect... more 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 browsing services to the global collection base. By using the MuseumFinland approach the museums with their ...
The museums participating in the project include the National Board of Antiquities, the Espoo Cit... more The museums participating in the project include the National Board of Antiquities, the Espoo City Museum, the Foundation of the Helsinki University Museum, and the Antivaria Group consisting of some 20 additional Finnish museums. The project team also includes ...
This paper presents the semantic portal MUSEUMFINLAND for publishing museum collections on the Se... more This paper presents the semantic portal MUSEUMFINLAND for publishing 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 semantic web techniques, it is possible to make collections semantically interoperable and provide the museum visitors with intelligent content-based search and browsing services to the global collection base.
This article presents the semantic portal MUSEUMFINLAND for publishing heterogeneous museum colle... more 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 provide the museum visitors with intelligent content-based search and browsing services to the global collection base. The architecture underlying MUSEUMFINLAND separates generic search and browsing services from the underlying application dependent schemas and metadata by a layer of logical rules. As a result, the portal creation framework and software developed has been applied successfully to other domains as well. MUSEUMFINLAND got the Semantic Web Challence Award (second prize) in 2004.
The goal of the Semantic Web is to share concept-based information in a versatile way on the Inte... more The goal of the Semantic Web is to share concept-based information in a versatile way on the Internet. This is achievable using formal data structures called ontologies. The goal of this research is to increase the usability of museum cataloging data in information retrieval. The work is interdisciplinary, involving craft science, terminology science, computer science, and museology. In the first part of the dissertation an ontology of concepts of textiles, garments, and accessories is developed for museum cataloging work. The ontology work was done with the help of thesauri, vocabularies, research reports, and standards. The basis of the ontology development was the Museoalan asiasanasto MASA, a thesaurus for museum cataloging work which has been enriched by other vocabularies. Concepts and terms concerning the research object, as well as the material names of textiles, costumes, and accessories, were focused on. The research method was terminological concept analysis complemented ...
This paper presents the semantic portal MUSEUMFINLAND for publishing museum collections on the Se... more This paper presents the semantic portal MUSEUMFINLAND for publishing 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 semantic web techniques, it is possible to make collections semantically interoparable and provide the museum visitors with inntelligent content-based search and browsing services to the global collection base.
This paper discusses the creation of terminologies, ontologies, and annotations when publishing s... more This paper discusses the creation of terminologies, ontologies, and annotations when publishing semantic web content. The problem is approached by presenting the content creation processes of the semantic portal MUSEUMFINLAND that is intended for ...
This paper presents a semantic portal, MuseumFinland, for publishing heterogeneous museum collect... more 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 browsing services to the global collection base. By using the MuseumFinland approach the museums with their ...
The museums participating in the project include the National Board of Antiquities, the Espoo Cit... more The museums participating in the project include the National Board of Antiquities, the Espoo City Museum, the Foundation of the Helsinki University Museum, and the Antivaria Group consisting of some 20 additional Finnish museums. The project team also includes ...
This paper presents the semantic portal MUSEUMFINLAND for publishing museum collections on the Se... more This paper presents the semantic portal MUSEUMFINLAND for publishing 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 semantic web techniques, it is possible to make collections semantically interoperable and provide the museum visitors with intelligent content-based search and browsing services to the global collection base.
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