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Digital Hermeneutics: Agora And The Online Understanding Of Cultural Heritage
Enriching museum records with the Simple Event Model
As information about the historical context of the object is currently not present in the museum database, we automati- cally enrich the database records with historical events from the “A Child in War” book by using information extraction techniques. Details of our approach…
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…
Three kinds of object-event relationship
We distinguish three types of object-event-relationships defining the event dimension of objects. The first two types of object-event relationships are given by the historical context as the majority of the general public will perceive it; what historical event, such as, a war…
The Myth Of Apollo -- Did The Usa Really Go To The Moon?
Apollo landing on the moon a hoax?
Despite this, I have nonetheless come to the conclusion that the Moon landings were most probably a hoax and the photographs and video footage faked. I am satisfied that the whole enterprise was not an exercise in scientific endeavour but in myth-making. The myth of Apollo was…