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Advanced Intelligent Services for Cities with Cultural Heritage Institutions

Advanced Intelligent Services for Cities with Cultural Heritage Institutions. G. Hopmans, P. Braspenning, P. Kruijsen (speaker) University Maastricht, Communications Research & Semiotics Barcelona, February 8 th 2003. I-MASS introduction. IST-funded FP5 project (1999-20878)

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Advanced Intelligent Services for Cities with Cultural Heritage Institutions

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  1. Advanced Intelligent Services for Cities with Cultural Heritage Institutions G. Hopmans, P. Braspenning, P. Kruijsen (speaker) University Maastricht, Communications Research & Semiotics Barcelona, February 8th 2003

  2. I-MASS introduction • IST-funded FP5 project (1999-20878) • Start January 2001, Finish March 2004 • Partners: 3 universities, software house, publisher, 7 content-providers • Goals: Provide possibilities to solve interoperability of content • 3 prototypes: syntactic interoperability, user interface, semantic interoperability

  3. Place of I-MASS • Digital Heritage and Cultural Content (one of the five main areas for research and technological development under Multimedia Content and Tools - Key Action III • Technologies and Engineering for Software, Systems and Services (TESSS) is part of the program Essential Technologies and Infrastructures - Key Action IV

  4. Interoperability of content • I-MASS deals with diverse content throughout various heterogeneous systems • This content is to be provided uniform from a user’s point of view, this is done in three steps: • From data source to RDF • From local standard to global schema • Towards full semantic interoperability • It uses local (PICA) and global (AAT, DC, CIDOC) standards from heritage institutions

  5. KRL DAML-L Knowledge & Reasoning (AI) O.O. DAML-OIL RDF Schema RDF TOOLS Information RDF XML XML Unicode Data W3C Semantic Web IMASS Interoperability of Content (single application) Interoperability between Applications Interoperability?

  6. Architecture • First prototype (focus on local sources) • Local agents map from database schema to conceptual schema • Uses RQL: a declarative language to query both RDF descriptions and schemas • Second prototype (focus on interoperability of containers) • Local agents communicate with agents using global schemas (such as CIDOC-CRM) translating between them • Introduces a first version of the graphical user interface • Third prototype (focus on semantic interoperability) • Utilizes the virtual reference room including reference works like dictionaries and thesauri • Using these, agents cooperate in achieving semantic operability

  7. INCA-COM • INCA stands for INtelligent CASE (computer aided software engineering) • INCA-COM defines a Conceptual Object Model to provide a descriptional representation formalism • Basic concepts: intances, sorts and descriptors • Organisational structures: sort hierarchy & part-whole hierarchy • Posibility of an object hierarchy without a common top-node  multiple hierarchies

  8. INCA-COM • Object has an existence independent of description • Every object is classified with one or more sorts • In principle sorts have an inten-sional and extensional des-cription, describing respectively • meaning of the sort, and • membership of object instances

  9. INCA-editor • Editor to model cultural domain • Maintain the knowledge landscape • Available online through web-interface • http://www.crs.unimaas.nl/i-mass/kl/

  10. INCA-editor • Advances functionalities: • Reification of sorts • Reifications of descriptors • Output in various formats • INCA-COM • XML • RDF • … (topic maps, ontology) Show INCA-COM editor here

  11. Research • Content interoperability • Agent Technology. Agent support by the use of reference works and different knowledge levels: • Concepts & term access Classification system • Concepts & definitions access Dictionaries • Concepts & explanations access Encyclopedias • Titles access Bibliography • Partial Content access abstract, index • Full Content access Objects: paintings, books • The additional value of I-MASS is the use of Reference Works.

  12. Related projects • Budapest Library project, MTA SZTAKI • Te.S.C.He.t: Cultural Heritage in Tourism, RDF (-Schema) • OntoWeb, the ontologies & content standards Not (really) agent based: • Harmony project • ICS-Forth, C-Web: Ontology Design, Managing RDF metadata

  13. Future perspectives • Accessing more and more services in the future for Maastricht : hotels, restaurants, traffic, travel information, theatre, cinema, banking rebuilding activities • Question: “What (information) services about Cities are missing? : Landmarks & Citymarks like churches • And Museums • And Libraries

  14. Information Management and interoperability of content for distributed Systems of high volume data repositories through multi agent Systems IST FP5 1999-20878 January 2001 – March 2004 http://www.i-massweb.org INCA-editor http://www.crs.unimaas.nl/i-mass/kl/ Project consortium: University Maastricht University Siena University Vienna Engineering Ingegneria Informatica Giunti interactive labs Scuola normale superiore Instituto e museo di storia della scienza C.I.S.A. Andrea Palladio Monumentenhuis Limburg Gallo-Romeins museum Limburgs museum Centre Ceramique I-MASS summary

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