CULTURESAMPO - Finnish culture on the Semantic Web
Eero Hyvönen, Eetu Mäkelä, Tuukka Ruotsalo, Tomi Kauppinen, Olli Alm, Jussi Kurki, Joeli Takala, Kimmo Puputti, Heini Kuittinen · 2008
This paper presents the semantic portal “CULTURESAMPO—Finnish Culture on the Semantic Web” 1 [1, 2]. The portal provides memory organizations and other cultural content publishers with a national, shared semantic publication channel for heterogenous cultural contents. The content comes from over ten organizations and is annotated using various ontologies of the FinnONTO infrastructure [3]. For the end-user, intelligent semantic search, recommendation, and visualization services for accessing and learning about cultural heritage are provided. The portal extents our earlier work on MUSEUMFINLAND 2 [4] as follows: 1. Dealing with cross-domain heterogeneous contents. The portal contains not only artifacts, but cultural contents of different forms, including paintings, photographs, folk poetry, biografies, skills, videos, buildings, historical events, maps, and music. 2. Event-based knowledge representation. CULTURESAMPO uses event-based modeling for representing implicit knowledge embedded in the various metadata schemas of the content types, for more detailed annotations of e.g. images, narrative stories, and historical events, and for making all this metadata mutually interoperable at a