Mismuseos.net: Art After Technology (putting cultural data to work)

Piqueras 31, 4ª planta · E-26006 Logroño · T/F (+34) 941 248 905 · [email protected] · www.gnoss.com Ricardo Alonso Maturana © RIAM I+L Lab Piqueras 31, 4ª planta · E-26006 Logroño · T/F (+34) 941 248 905 · [email protected] · www.gnoss.com Ricardo Alonso Maturana © RIAM I+L Lab

Ricardo Alonso Maturana © RIAM I+L Lab

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Mismuseos.net: Art After Technology (putting cultural data to work) Website: www.mismuseos.net

http://summit2013.lodlam.net/




LAM: Libraries, Archives and Museums are the places of our collective memory.

LOD: They contain a hidden graph, made up of nodes (entities) and lines (relations) with enormous possibilities of discovering and knowledge.

SEMANTIC WEB: Now we can compute those concealed relationships, and expose the connexions inside our collective memory graph under some conditions.




DESCRIPTION OF THE PROBLEM The data of the museums are distributed and not connected. There are more than 55,000 museums in 202 countries. We cannot do interesting exploitations using the capacity of the machines with the information contained in the current formats of knowledge representation.




GNOSS University

Learning

Research

Inst. Repository

Fundación Lázaro

Galdiano

Geonames Freebase

Dbpedia

GNOSS Meta-library

Paper Toys

CITA School Digital

Library Mapas interactivos

BNE Escolar

Residencia Estudiantes

MisMuseos (GNOSS

Meta-museum) Museos de España

(GNOSS)

GNOSS Cultural & Educational Micro Cloud of Linked, Clean and Curated Data with an underlying Specialized and Unified Graph

NYT

17.000 Art works 2.500 Artists

55.000 Educational resources 20.000 Users 300 Lessons

6.200 Library resources 2.400 Art works

6.000 Art works 800 Artists




HOW DISTRIBUTED, WHAT IS THE IP AND HOW IS IT HELD (DOES NOT HAVE TO BE OPEN) The project is a free access online solu2on available in the web address h7p://mismuseos.net.

NOTA: Habría que poner de fondo la home de MisMuseos (las notas son para quitarlas

Free access online solution available in the web address http://mismuseos.net




MAIN GOAL

The main goal of Mismuseos.net is to present a case of exploitation of Linked Data for the G.L.A.M. community through innovative end-user applications, like facet-based searches and semantic context creation, which drastically improve user experience, built on GNOSS, a semantic and social software platform with a deep focus on the generation of social knowledge ecosystems and end-user applications in a Linked Data environment.




GOALS

• To put data to work: use public datasets and information on museums to generate benefits for users and improve the user’s experience.

• To link datasets both to enrich content and generate accurate contexts of information

• To clean up, curate, unify, extend and hybridize data into a knowledge domain.

• To express all the data through a unique graph in the context of a specialized Micro Linked Data Cloud for culture and education.

• To connect cultural and educational worlds in a knowledge ecosystem through the development of Hybrid or Extended Ontologies thought for that purpose.




Cultural world ontologies

CIDOC FRBR

MARC

Educational world ontologies General purpose ontologies

SIOC

SKOS

GEO

DUBLIN CORE

FOAF LOM LOM-ES

SWRC CRSW BIBO

ALOCOM

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Hybrid and extended ontologies to connects worlds




Specifically data from the CER.ES collection (CER.ES is the Digital Network of Collections of Spanish Museums), and the online collections of public Spanish Museums. These data were used in order to obtain the information about cultural goods (pieces of arts and museum information basically).

Used to supplement the information about the author and extract information on authors and museums location.

To obtain the geolocation data of artists and museums, once we have obtained the names of the places from the primary source or from Dbpedia. This information will be consumed in the future to locate them in a map view.

An index of over 55,000 educational resources on gnoss.com, linked to provide users with related educational content

DATASETS USED




TECHNOLOGY - FACETED SEARCHES

The search engine enables aggregated searches by different facets and summarization of results for each successive search.




TECHNOLOGY – CONTEXTS OR RELATED INFORMATION

Enriched content and navigation through graphs. We have set several contexts depending on the object or entity that the user is viewing (art work, artist or museum), which offer dynamically generated content.




TECHNOLOGY – SEMANTIC CONTENT MANAGEMENT SYSTEM (SemCMS)

The previous entities (pieces of art, artists and museums) are represented on the platform with their specific ontologies thanks to the Semantic Content Management System which allows uploading an OWL file describing the concepts and relations within a particular knowledge domain, and it generates a semantic form with all the classes and properties represented in the OWL file.




NEXT STEPS • Expand the collections with more museums and galleries

• Enable the multilingual navigation in Mismuseos.net and, as a consequence, extending the cultural domains of the solution.

• Show the results of a query in very specialized ways (Now, we can in some cases search on a map, but in the future it should be arranged to do that on timelines and other ways of presentation). The connection between specialized fields of knowledge has not only an ontological solution, but also a solution based on the way the results are shown.




HOW OUR INNOVATIVE IDEAS WILL ADVANCE THE GLAM COMMUNITY

Direct advances/ benefits: • Extending the cultural graph with additional contexts through the connection to other

cultural heritage resources of libraries and archives.

• Offering a semantic web publishing service for museums to serve customized semantic webpages with selected data coming from Mismuseos.net.

• Providing the point of view from the educational world to reflect on the necessary research on ontological engineering in LAM.

• Providing linked data or semantic contexts to third parties, putting your cultural information inside new platforms and spaces.




HOW OUR INNOVATIVE IDEAS WILL ADVANCE THE GLAM COMMUNITY

Other potential advances: • Developing personalized cultural assistants depending on the user preferences.

• Offering varied levels of specialized information using different views and searching tools for every kind of user, from kids to researchers.

• Promoting the development of new applications for your exposed linked data, from games to digital books.




CONCLUSIONS The main problems we have faced in this projects have been:

• Generating a scalable graph that can potentially integrate any Museum

• Maintaining the datasets and data contained in them

• Developing uses and presentations of those data appropriate to each environment or user group (Semantic Dynamic Publishing)

We think we have shown a possible way to travel and solve this set of problems




Thank you! RICARDO ALONSO MATURANA @maturanaricardo [email protected]

GNOSS Piqueras 31, 4ª planta, E-26006 Logroño

T/F (+34) 941 248 905

[email protected], www.gnoss.com