Applying general Semantic Web techniques to the Cultural Heritage domain
SKOS is a framework to represent Simple Knowledge Organisation Schemes in a standard way on the semantic web. Research on SKOS is now carried out by the Semantic Web Deployment Working Group, in which the STITCH project participates
Finnish Museums Online: this national museum
network experiment includes a semantic search system connecting the various collections with each other
The CATCH program includes a range of relevant projects, among which CHIP and CHOICE explicitly use Semantic Web techniques and collaborate with us
The eCulture research project also works on accessing different collections. It has built a nice access system on top of several collections, exploiting semantic representations of their metadata and vocabularies
The AIMS initiative of the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations targets the representation of its most important vocabularies using OWL, and the provision of advanced terminology web services
The RNA application project investigates the use of semantic web languages and tools to change the way knowledge is created and accessed in Cultural Heritage projects
The CIDOC-CRM is a reference model built to ease articulation of metadata structures in the Cultural Heritage area by providing a rich description structure for artworks
Pavel Shvaiko maintains a list of resources related to ontology alignment
The ontology alignment evaluation initiative (latest campaign here) confronts ontology matching tools to various cases, either carefully crafted test suites or more realistic settings
Among numerous alignement tools, two recent ones we have used in our experiments are S-Match and Falcon-AO
The KnowledgeWeb network has produced a number of reference deliverables about the problems of ontology alignment
Work about interoperability in the Cultural Heritage domain
The European Library and The Memory of the Netherlands projects have produced impressive and inspiring outputs regarding the solving of interoperability problem at the syntactic level. Practically, they show what a integrated digital library can bring to its users
The MPI ECHO project has carried out inspiring work regarding metadata structure and vocabulary alignement
Renardus and MACS projects have manually aligned description vocabularies to provide access to several collections
The HILT projects aims at developing architectures to search across different vocabularies
The NKOS network maintains a website pointing at papers and events concerning research on structured vocabularies
DELOS gathers researchers throughout Europe on the problems of Digital Libraries, and provides with interesting links and papers in that field
Some introductory reading for the Semantic Web
Reference material for RDF(S) and OWL can be found on W3C website
