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Patrick Le Bœuf Bibliothèque nationale de France

Using an ontology-driven system to integrate museum information and library information Paper presented on the occasion of the Symposium on Digital Semantic Content across Cultures, Paris, the Louvre, 4-5 May 2006. Patrick Le Bœuf Bibliothèque nationale de France. 1. Infodiversity.

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Patrick Le Bœuf Bibliothèque nationale de France

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  1. Using an ontology-driven system to integrate museum information and library informationPaper presented on the occasion of the Symposium onDigital Semantic Content across Cultures,Paris, the Louvre, 4-5 May 2006 Patrick Le BœufBibliothèque nationale de France

  2. 1. Infodiversity • “The nice thing about standards is that there are so many to choose from…” • However, “infodiversity is good” (Tony Gill) for cultural heritage information • … Would end-users agree?... • Our challenge: • To preserve institutions’ commitment in the information they produce about their collections • and to meet end-users’ information needs (integrated information, logical inferences from information stored in heterogeneous databases)

  3. Integrated information: a wonderful dream… I want... Books aboutthis object Other objectsof samecultural context Referencetools thatmention it Other objectsof sametechnique Books about its culturalcontext, about its technique,about this type of objects Other objectsof same type Books about thesubject it depicts Other objectsdepicting thesame subject Related literary works URLs fordigitisa-tions of it Reproduc-tions of it Audio-visualmaterials about it

  4. 2. The SCULPTEUR Project • European-funded (2002-2005) • Partners: C2RMF, The National Gallery (UK), Victoria & Albert Museum, Galleria degli Uffizi… • Technical infrastructure: University of Southampton (UK) • Produced the “Concept Browser”: a graphic interface to query heterogeneous museum databases • Information is integrated through mapping to a common ontology: CIDOC CRM

  5. 3. The CIDOC CRM • CRM = “Conceptual Reference Model” • Developed by ICOM CIDOC from 1996 on • Leader = Martin Doerr • ISO standard 21127 • CRM = a basis for data exchange and for building integrated query tools

  6. Of what ? Type 3. The CIDOC CRM • 81 classes, 132 properties • Key concepts = ActorAppellation Appellation Involving what? Involving whom? Actor PhysicalThing What happened? ConceptualObject Event Time-Span Place When? Where? TimeAppellation PlaceAppellation

  7. The CIDOC CRM in the Concept Browser http://www.sculpteur.ecs.soton.ac.uk/software/concept/doc/

  8. The CIDOC CRM in the Concept Browser • Simplified ontology, in the mSpaces browser: Addis, M., et al., New Ways to Search, Navigate and Use Multimedia Museum Collections over the Web, Figure 4, in J. Trant and D. Bearman (eds.). Museums and the Web 2005: Proceedings, Toronto: Archives & Museum Informatics, published March 31, 2005 at http://www.archimuse.com/mw2005/papers/addis/addis.fig4.html

  9. 4. Bibliographic information • CIDOC CRM focuses on museum information • => Possible to use it for bibliographic information as well??? • Museum info: mainly about “unique” physical objects • Bibliographic info: mainly about “publications”, an abstract notion instantiated in holdings

  10. 4. Bibliographic information • Is there an ontology for bibliographic information, comparable to CIDOC CRM? • Not an “ontology”, but a conceptual model: FRBR (Functional Requirements for Bibliographic Records) • Developed by IFLA, published in 1998 • Current work to align it on CIDOC CRM • Planned to have a harmonised ontology covering both FRBR’s scope and CIDOC CRM’s scope • Not yet available, therefore not available at the time the Concept Browser was being developed…

  11. 4. Bibliographic information • Eventually, mapping UNIMARC Bibliographic format to CIDOC CRM proved feasible… • … but time-consuming… (2004-April 2006!) • The SCULPTEUR Project is closed now… Is it too late? • However, we need to check the mapping and the ability of the Concept Browser to integrate museum and library information

  12. 5. Possible next steps • Test the integration of bibliographic records with museum information in th Concept Browser • ? Map thesauri, classification schemes, subject authority files to the CIDOC CRM • Objective: allow end-users e.g. to navigate from studies on a technique to artefacts produced by that technique Books about that technique Other objectsof sametechnique

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