Increasing Access to Cultural Heritage Objects from Multiple Museums through Semantically-Aware Maps

ISPRS International Journal of Geo-Information

Jorge Sebastián¹  Arabella León¹  Cristina Portalés²  Pablo Casanova-Salas²  Javier Sevilla²  Jose Javier Samper² 

[1] Department of Art History, Universitat de València, 46980 Valencia, Spain;Institute of Robotics and Information and Communication Technologies (IRTIC), Universitat de València, 46980 Valencia, Spain;

关键词: visualization;    ontology;    spatiotemporal map;    cultural heritage;   

DOI  :  10.3390/ijgi11040266

来源: DOAJ

【 摘 要 】

Geographical information is gaining new momentum as an analysis and visualization tool for collections of cultural objects. It provides all kinds of users with new opportunities to contextualize and understand these objects in ways that resemble our ordinary spatially-located experience and to do so better than textual narratives. The SeMap project has built an online resource that shows more than 200,000 cultural objects through spatiotemporal maps, thus enabling new experiences and perspectives around these objects. Data come from the CER.ES repository and were created by a network of more than 100 Spanish museums. This article explains the refinement of the data provided by the repository, mostly by adding a semantic structure thanks to the CIDOC-CRM ontology, and by simplifying the exceedingly complex terminologies employed in the original records. Particular attention is paid to the methods for geolocating the information, as well as adding temporal filters (among others) to user queries. The functionalities, interface, and technical requirements are also explored at length.

【 授权许可】

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