Friends, This is a useful overview of the current "state of the art" in the application of semantic web technologies to the cultural heritage domain.
The CRM is mentioned extensively in the second half of the report. Cheers, T. =========================================================================== Tony Gill ARTstor Director of Metadata & Cataloguing, The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation 140 East 62nd Street, New York, NY, 10021, USA t1 (direct): +1 (646) 274-2265, t2: +1 (212) 838-8400 w: http://www.artstor.org, f: +1 (212) 223-2778 -----Original Message----- From: Amy Kirchhoff [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Monday 23 June 2003 8:54 AM To: '[email protected]' Subject: FW: "Towards a Semantic Web for Heritage Resources" - Now Availa ble Importance: High Hi ~ I haven't read this one yet, but seeing as we were talking about ontologies and the semantic web so recently, I thought I'd forward this on. ~ Amy -----Original Message----- From: Seamus Ross, Director HATII [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Tuesday, June 17, 2003 5:43 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Fw: "Towards a Semantic Web for Heritage Resources" - Now Available Importance: High Padi-Forum Readers may be interested in the following. best Seamus Thematic Issue 3 - Now Available Towards a Semantic Web for Heritage Resources DigiCULT's Experts Tangle with the Semantic Web "The course of the debate at the Darmstadt DigiCULT Forum had not always been so direct. It had started with the Position Paper's dismaying thought that the limited understanding of information processing in the heritage sector almost makes the Semantic Web an impossibility to apply. It had touched on Simeon poetry, art works of the biblical seductress Salome, weather forecasts for the northern English city of York, and revolutionary theories of 16th-century Italian astronomer Galileo. But the experts agreed, that ..." For the conclusions reached by the experts in unravelling the vision of the Semantic Web and its significance for the Cultural Heritage Sector, please download the full version of the DigiCULT Thematic Issue 3 below. DigiCULT Thematic Issue 3 - Content: - Towards a Semantic Web for Heritage Resources - Semantic Web Terms and Reading List: A-X - Cultural Heritage Semantic Web Example & Primer - 2 Interviews with practitioners Download DigiCULT Thematic Issue 3: Low-Res http://data.digicult.info/download/ti3_low.pdf (1,4 MB) High-Res http://data.digicult.info/download/ti3_high.pdf (3,4 MB) Comment on the Technology Watch Briefings: Each briefing for the upcoming DigiCULT Technology Watch Reports are made available for comment online. The first draft of the latest briefing "The XML Family of Technologies" is online, more are expected soon. Comments and suggestions to be implemented in the final draft are cordially invited. [more.http://www.digicult.info/pages/publications.php] The DigiCULT Publications: - Thematic Issues: results of themed expert fora - DigiCULT Technology Watch Reports: in-depth technology evaluation - DigiCULT.Info Newsletter: articles about services, studies, technologies, and activities - DigiCULT Website: info, events, links, all publications online for download [more.http://www.digicult.info/pages/publications.php] Subscribe to the Newsletter DigiCULT.Info http://www.digicult.info/pages/subscribe.php Read and comment on the Technology Watch Briefings http://www.digicult.info/pages/publications.php Submit an Event http://www.digicult.info/pages/addevent.php (c) DigiCULT Forum 2003 http://www.digicult.info
