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Cultural heritage is a promising application domain for semantic web technologies due the semantic richness and heterogeneity of cultural content, and the distributed ways in which the content is created in memory organizations and by citizens. This chapter overviews issues and research related to creating semantic portals for publishing cultural heritage collections and other content on the web.

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Notes

  1. 1.

    http://www.w3.org/2001/SW/

  2. 2.

    http://www.w3.org/XML/

  3. 3.

    http://www.w3.org/RDF/

  4. 4.

    http://www.w3.org/2004/OWL/

  5. 5.

    http://dublincore.org/documents/1998/09/dces/

  6. 6.

    NISO Standard Z39.85-2001 and ISO Standard 15836-2003.

  7. 7.

    http://www.vraweb.org/

  8. 8.

    http://www.dajobe.org/2004/01/turtle/

  9. 9.

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metasearch_engine

  10. 10.

    http://www.cni.org/pub/NISO/docs/Z39.50-brochure/

  11. 11.

    http://www.loc.gov/standards/sru/

  12. 12.

    http://www.collectionsaustralia.net/

  13. 13.

    http://www.chin.gc.ca/

  14. 14.

    http://www.openarchives.org/

  15. 15.

    http://www.loc.gov/rr/print/tgm1/

  16. 16.

    http://www.iconclass.nl/

  17. 17.

    http://www.getty.edu/research/conducting_research/vocabularies/aat/

  18. 18.

    http://www.getty.edu/vow/ULANSearchPage.jsp

  19. 19.

    http://www.getty.edu/research/conducting_research/vocabularies/tgn/

  20. 20.

    http://authorities.loc.gov/

  21. 21.

    http://www.mda.org.uk/stand.htm

  22. 22.

    http://www.vraweb.org/ccoweb/cco/index.html

  23. 23.

    http://www.w3.org/2004/02/skos/

  24. 24.

    http://www.loa-cnr.it/DOLCE.html

  25. 25.

    http://suo.ieee.org/

  26. 26.

    Since 2006, CIDOC CRM has been an official ISO standard 21127:2006.

  27. 27.

    http://cidoc.ics.forth.gr/

  28. 28.

    http://www.kulttuurisampo.fi/

  29. 29.

    http://protege.stanford.edu/

  30. 30.

    http://www.seco.tkk.fi/services/onki/

  31. 31.

    http://www.google.com/webhp?complete=1&hl=en

  32. 32.

    http://www.w3.org/DesignIssues/LinkedData.html

  33. 33.

    http://maps.google.com/

  34. 34.

    http://simile.mit.edu/timeline/

  35. 35.

    http://www.google.com/adsense/

  36. 36.

    http://www.europeana.eu/

  37. 37.

    http://www.steve.com/

  38. 38.

    http://www.powerhousemuseum.com/collection/database/

  39. 39.

    http://www.seco.tkk.fi/projects/finnonto/

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This work was supported by the national semantic web ontology project FinnONTOFootnote 39 2003–2010 in Finland, funded by the National Funding Agency for Technology and Innovation (Tekes) and a consortium of 38 public organizations and companies.

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Hyvönen, E. (2009). Semantic Portals for Cultural Heritage. In: Staab, S., Studer, R. (eds) Handbook on Ontologies. International Handbooks on Information Systems. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-92673-3_34

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