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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…
Historical Event-based Access To Museum Collections
Extracting historical events as named entities
One of the biggest challenges is information extraction on historical events from different textual data. We will start by identifying the ‘bigger’ events that have been deemed important enough to receive a proper name (e.g., French Revolution, Second World War). As the…
Historical knowledge locked in museum collections
There is a vast amount of historical knowledge locked in museum collections. This knowledge is often explicitly present in textual descriptions accompanying museum objects or implicitly present through the fact that an object belongs to a particular collection and was collected…