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Digital Hermeneutics: Agora And The Online Understanding Of Cultural Heritage
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
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…