Hi Daniel,
There may be some useful ontologies as well as insights into things you
might consider as you begin to publish your content on the National
Semantic Web Ontology Program in Finland (FinnOnto). The have published
ontologies, a service infrastructure, papers, etc. on the program web
site, at http://www.seco.tkk.fi/projects/finnonto/. A substantial
portion of the work is in Finnish, but not all ontologies, and at a
minimum, they have tools and experience that should be helpful.
Best regards,
Elisa
Daniel Schwabe wrote:
Dear all,
I am involved with a cultural heritage project that maintains the
archives (actually, "life and times") of the most famous brazilian
painter, Candido Portinari (http://www.portinari.org.br). The project
has extensive multimedia data in traditional relational dbs, besides
the complete documentation (including systematic natural language
description) of the artworks themselves. It includes things like
photographs, recordings, newpaper clippings, books, interview
recordings, video, etc...
I have now convinced them that they should make their data available
on the semantic web, via Open Linked Data. The first step, of course,
is selecting the suitable ontologies to map their db schema onto them,
extending if/when needed. So the question is, can you give me pointers
to any ontologies (in RDF(S)/OWL) used in the e-culture or similar
projects? Unfortunately, at this stage the project cannot afford to
pay for proprietary ontologies (such as the Getty Museum's), so they
must be free...
Thanks for any info you can provide!
--
Daniel Schwabe
Tel:+55-21-3527 1500 r. 4356
Fax: +55-21-3527 1530
http://www.inf.puc-rio.br/~dschwabe Dept. de Informatica, PUC-Rio
R. M. de S. Vicente, 225
Rio de Janeiro, RJ 22453-900, Brasil
