A framework for interacting FRBRoo/ CIDOC CRM data: With emphasis on heterogeneous needs
Maliheh Farrokhnia · Bull. IEEE Tech. Comm. Digit. Libr. · 2014
Considerable time and efforts have been spent on dev eloping standards and models that provide interoperability between information system in archives, libraries and museu ms. Among them CIDOC Conceptual Reference Model (CRM), primarily targeting museum information and later FRBR object-oriented model (FRBRoo), which is an extension to CIDOC CRM developed to integrate information across memory in stitutions (such as archives, libraries and museums) in a sema ntic way. Despite different efforts to implement these concep tual models in integrated systems with a substantial amount of cultural heritage information, information retrieval and its representation still has some challenges. The author suggests that information visualization can be applied to display better the semantic structures and relationships between objects descri bed by FRBRoo/ CIDOC CRM. This research also presents the potential of graphical information visualization as a knowled ge network and proposes a framework about how a user interface in such integrated systems could be semantically establishe d according to the user needs. Application of this framework ca n easily be used in many integrated information systems.