Increasing Access to Cultural Heritage Objects from Multiple Museums through Semantically-Aware Maps
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...
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| author | Cristina Portalés Pablo Casanova-Salas Javier Sevilla Jorge Sebastián Arabella León Jose Javier Samper |
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| description | 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. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-baee42ed0b2c460db0543dacf836f0062023-12-01T21:01:36ZengMDPI AGISPRS International Journal of Geo-Information2220-99642022-04-0111426610.3390/ijgi11040266Increasing Access to Cultural Heritage Objects from Multiple Museums through Semantically-Aware MapsCristina Portalés0Pablo Casanova-Salas1Javier Sevilla2Jorge Sebastián3Arabella León4Jose Javier Samper5Institute of Robotics and Information and Communication Technologies (IRTIC), Universitat de València, 46980 Valencia, SpainInstitute of Robotics and Information and Communication Technologies (IRTIC), Universitat de València, 46980 Valencia, SpainInstitute of Robotics and Information and Communication Technologies (IRTIC), Universitat de València, 46980 Valencia, SpainDepartment of Art History, Universitat de València, 46980 Valencia, SpainDepartment of Art History, Universitat de València, 46980 Valencia, SpainInstitute of Robotics and Information and Communication Technologies (IRTIC), Universitat de València, 46980 Valencia, SpainGeographical 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.https://www.mdpi.com/2220-9964/11/4/266visualizationontologyspatiotemporal mapcultural heritage |
| spellingShingle | Cristina Portalés Pablo Casanova-Salas Javier Sevilla Jorge Sebastián Arabella León Jose Javier Samper Increasing Access to Cultural Heritage Objects from Multiple Museums through Semantically-Aware Maps ISPRS International Journal of Geo-Information visualization ontology spatiotemporal map cultural heritage |
| title | Increasing Access to Cultural Heritage Objects from Multiple Museums through Semantically-Aware Maps |
| title_full | Increasing Access to Cultural Heritage Objects from Multiple Museums through Semantically-Aware Maps |
| title_fullStr | Increasing Access to Cultural Heritage Objects from Multiple Museums through Semantically-Aware Maps |
| title_full_unstemmed | Increasing Access to Cultural Heritage Objects from Multiple Museums through Semantically-Aware Maps |
| title_short | Increasing Access to Cultural Heritage Objects from Multiple Museums through Semantically-Aware Maps |
| title_sort | increasing access to cultural heritage objects from multiple museums through semantically aware maps |
| topic | visualization ontology spatiotemporal map cultural heritage |
| url | https://www.mdpi.com/2220-9964/11/4/266 |
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