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Automatic Heritage Metadata Enrichment With Historic Events | Museumsandtheweb.com
Enriching museum metadata with historical events
Most digitized and online available objects from GLAMs (Galleries, Libraries, Archives, Museums) can be browsed through a predefined set of formal metadata, such as its creator, year of creation, and type of material. Standards for metadata management and exchange enable…
Digital Hermeneutics: Agora And The Online Understanding Of Cultural Heritage
Events give collection objects their meaning
The main building blocks in the interpretation process of history and collection objects are historical events and the relations between these events and the objects. A collection object on its own, has no meaning; by adding events to the object’s description we provide its…