Mismuseos.net: Putting Cultural Data to Work

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Ricardo Alonso Maturana
© RIAM I+L Lab
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Mismuseos.net: Art After Technology
(putting cultural data to work)
Website: www.mismuseos.net
http://summit2013.lodlam.net/

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LAM: Libraries, Archives and Museums are the places of our collective
memory.
LOD: They contain a hidden graph, made up of nodes (entities) and lines
(relations) with enormous possibilities of discovering and knowledge.
SEMANTIC WEB: Now we can compute those concealed relationships, and
expose the connexions inside our collective memory graph under some
conditions.

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DESCRIPTION OF THE PROBLEM
The data of the museums are distributed and not connected. There are more
than 55,000 museums in 202 countries. We cannot do interesting exploitations
using the capacity of the machines with the information contained in the
current formats of knowledge representation.

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GNOSS University
Learning
Research
Inst.
Repository
Fundación
Lázaro
Galdiano
Geonames Freebase
Dbpedia
GNOSS
Meta-library
Paper
Toys
CITA
School Digital
LibraryMapas
interactivos
BNE
Escolar
Residencia
Estudiantes
MisMuseos
(GNOSS
Meta-museum) Museos de
España
(GNOSS)
GNOSS Cultural & Educational Micro Cloud of Linked, Clean and
Curated Data with an underlyingSpecialized and Unified Graph
NYT
17.000 Art works
2.500 Artists
55.000 Educational resources
20.000 Users
300 Lessons
6.200 Library resources
2.400 Art works
6.000 Art works
800 Artists

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HOW

DISTRIBUTED,
WHAT
IS
THE
IP
AND
HOW
IS
IT
HELD

(DOES
NOT
HAVE
TO
BE
OPEN)

The
project
is
a
free
access
online
solu2on
available
in
the

web
address
h7p://mismuseos.net.

NOTA:
Habría
que
poner
de
fondo
la
home
de
MisMuseos

(las
notas
son
para
quitarlas


Free access online solution available in the web address http://
mismuseos.net

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MAIN GOAL
The main goal of Mismuseos.net is to present a case of exploitation of
Linked Data for the G.L.A.M. community through innovative end-user
applications, like facet-based searches and semantic context creation,
which drastically improve user experience, built on GNOSS, a semantic
and social software platform with a deep focus on the generation of
social knowledge ecosystems and end-user applications in a Linked Data
environment.

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GOALS
• To put data to work: use public datasets and information on museums to generate
benefits for users and improve the user’s experience.
• To link datasets both to enrich content and generate accurate contexts of information
• To clean up, curate, unify, extend and hybridize data into a knowledge domain.
• To express all the data through a unique graph in the context of a specialized Micro
Linked Data Cloud for culture and education.
• To connect cultural and educational worlds in a knowledge ecosystem through the
development of Hybrid or Extended Ontologies thought for that purpose.

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Cultural world ontologies
CIDOC
FRBR
MARC
Educational world ontologiesGeneral purpose
ontologies
SIOC
SKOS
GEO
DUBLIN CORE
FOAF LOM
LOM-ES
SWRC
CRSWBIBO
ALOCOM
+ +
Hybrid and extended ontologies to connects worlds

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Specifically data from the CER.ES collection (CER.ES is the Digital Network of
Collections of Spanish Museums), and the online collections of public Spanish
Museums. These data were used in order to obtain the information about
cultural goods (pieces of arts and museum information basically).
Used to supplement the information about the author and extract information
on authors and museums location.
To obtain the geolocation data of artists and museums, once we have obtained
the names of the places from the primary source or from Dbpedia. This
information will be consumed in the future to locate them in a map view.
An index of over 55,000 educational resources on gnoss.com, linked to provide
users with related educational content
DATASETS USED

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TECHNOLOGY -
FACETED SEARCHES
The search engine
enables aggregated
searches by different
facets and
summarization of results
for each successive
search.

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TECHNOLOGY –
CONTEXTS OR RELATED
INFORMATION
Enriched content and navigation
through graphs. We have set
several contexts depending on
the object or entity that the user
is viewing (art work, artist or
museum), which offer
dynamically generated content.

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TECHNOLOGY –
SEMANTIC CONTENT
MANAGEMENT SYSTEM
(SemCMS)
The previous entities (pieces of art,
artists and museums) are represented
on the platform with their specific
ontologies thanks to the Semantic
Content Management System which
allows uploading an OWL file
describing the concepts and relations
within a particular knowledge domain,
and it generates a semantic form with
all the classes and properties
represented in the OWL file.

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NEXT STEPS
• Expand the collections with more museums and galleries
• Enable the multilingual navigation in Mismuseos.net and, as a consequence,
extending the cultural domains of the solution.
• Show the results of a query in very specialized ways (Now, we can in some
cases search on a map, but in the future it should be arranged to do that
on timelines and other ways of presentation). The connection between
specialized fields of knowledge has not only an ontological solution, but
also a solution based on the way the results are shown.

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HOW OUR INNOVATIVE IDEAS WILL ADVANCE THE GLAM COMMUNITY
Direct advances/ benefits:
• Extending the cultural graph with additional contexts through the connection to other
cultural heritage resources of libraries and archives.
• Offering a semantic web publishing service for museums to serve customized semantic
webpages with selected data coming from Mismuseos.net.
• Providing the point of view from the educational world to reflect on the necessary research
on ontological engineering in LAM.
• Providing linked data or semantic contexts to third parties, putting your cultural
information inside new platforms and spaces.

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HOW OUR INNOVATIVE IDEAS WILL ADVANCE THE GLAM COMMUNITY
Other potential advances:
• Developing personalized cultural assistants depending on the user preferences.
• Offering varied levels of specialized information using different views and searching tools
for every kind of user, from kids to researchers.
• Promoting the development of new applications for your exposed linked data, from games
to digital books.

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CONCLUSIONS
The main problems we have faced in this projects have been:
• Generating a scalable graph that can potentially integrate any Museum
• Maintaining the datasets and data contained in them
• Developing uses and presentations of those data appropriate to each
environment or user group (Semantic Dynamic Publishing)
We think we have shown a possible way to travel and solve this set of problems

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Thank you!
RICARDO ALONSO MATURANA
@maturanaricardo
riam@gnoss.com
GNOSS
Piqueras 31, 4ª planta, E-26006 Logroño
T/F (+34) 941 248 905
gnoss@gnoss.com, www.gnoss.com

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