Presentation of the E-RIHS project's Heritage Hub, a semantic & NLP driven, automated platform for finding on the web valuable content related to Cultural Heritage

1. E-RIHS Heritage Hub
Firenze, 2018 October 19th
Luca De Santis
desantis@netseven.it

2. The Heritage Hub? Some suggestions
! A cloud service that automatically “scans the web” to
find valuable “content”, related to Cultural Heritage
! A semantic engine, that automatically recognizes
what the content is about, categorizes it and – if
“relevant” – republishes it in The Heritage Hub
! The Heritage Hub… half Cathedral, half Bazaar

3. Imagine that…

4. One stop shop for Cultural Heritage!
! A ready made “press release”, that retrieves relevant content from
multiple sources
○ To start with, all national E-RIHS sites!
○ Web, Social Networks, Blogs, Institutional Sites, Newsgroups, ,..
! Searching the web for funding opportunities
! Personalization and match-making for researchers
… all in one place!

5. Some experiences

6. How it works

7. How it works

8. Features: The Hub
! Public content for all, specialized for “some”
○ A certain amount of content presented to all; some more specific information (e.g.
funding opportunities) available only to registered/authorised users
! Personalised services for authorised users
○ Automatic suggestion of content (You can also like…); suggestion of contacts
(Users with similar interests)
! (Potentially…) A collaboration space, to support the preparation of
proposal (or the management of projects…)

9. Features: The Hub .02
! Searching the web for funding opportunities
○ EU calls
○ National and regional programs
○ Other opportunities
! Assigning opportunities to the correct “topic”
! A global search engine of all the content retrieved through the
service

10. Features: SCRE (The “Semantic Engine”)
! Configurability
○ Adding web sources through an easy to use web interface
○ Maintaining metadata and original link (respecting the original source! Bringing
visitors to the “original” websites)
! Semantic analysis of the content
○ Identification of concepts/topics, classification through E-RIHS categories
! Content Curation
○ Removing “decorative” elements from the page, to accommodate the visualization
on The Heritage Hub

11. Features: SCRE (The “Semantic Engine”) .02
! Editorial services
○ Content to be automatically selected for publication or to pass a human approval
phase
! Reuse
○ API services to easily integrate the content fetched/selected in external web-sites
of the E-RIHS ecosystem

12. Languages
! English (and Italian) supported in the project
! General and language agnostic classification taxonomies
! Multilanguage tools and libraries
○ Other languages potentially supported “on the go”

13. Timeline
! Alpha version: end of January 2019
! Final release: late Spring

14. Questions?
desantis@netseven.it
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