This document discusses semantic technologies for cultural heritage. It introduces Ontotext Corp, which develops semantic technology, and some of their projects involving cultural heritage data. These include the ResearchSpace project with the British Museum, projects involving Europeana like Bulgariana and Europeana Creative, and publishing Getty vocabularies as linked open data.

1. SEMANTIC TECHNOLOGIES FOR CULTURAL
HERITAGE
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SMARTCULTURE CONFERENCE
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2. TABLE OF CONTENTS
OntotextCorp
Semantic Technologies
CulturalHeritage LOD Cloud
ResearchSpace
Bulgariana
EuropeanaCreative
GettyVocabularies

3. SMARTCULTURE CONFERENCE (THANKS FOR INVITING ME!)

4. ONTOTEXT CORP
World Leadingsemantic technologydeveloper
Established in 2000 as partof SirmaGroup
Spun off in 2008 after venture investment(NEVEQ)
75 employees
Offices in Bulgaria(Sofiaand Varna), UK (London), USA
(New York)
Globalleader in semantic databases and search
Proven Delivery
More high-profile show cases than competitors
Highestprofile sem web applications
BBC: World Cup 2010, London Olympics 2012
Semantic search for multinationalpharmaceuticals (Astra
Zeneca)
Stable and Growing
Both staff and revenue growingfor 12th year in arow

5. SOME ONTOTEXT CLIENTS

6. ONTOTEXT RESEARCH PROJECTS (FP5-FP7)
Bulgaria's largestparticipant: over 30 projects

7. SEMANTIC TECHNOLOGIES
Web 1.0: hyperlinked documents (World Wide Web)
Web 2.0: interactive applications, the SocialWeb
Web 3.0: interlinked data(GlobalGiantGraph)
Is this somethingnew?
Itwas allenvisioned bySir Tim Berners-Lee 25 years ago
Standardized byW3C: both HTML and sem web standards
(RDF, RDFS, OWL, SPARQL…)
Greatflurryof sem tech activityin the last15 years
Buzzwords: BigData, Semantic Analytics, ConceptExtraction,
SentimentAnalysis…

8. LINKED OPEN DATA CLOUD
This is from Mar 2009, now has grown 10x!
Partat ,http://factforge.net http://linkedlifedata.com

9. LINGUISTIC LINKED DATA

10. FIRST ONTOTEXT GLAM PROJECT: UK NATIONAL ARCHIVES

11. CULTURAL HERITAGE LOD CLOUD

12. EUROPEANA RECOGNIZES IMPORTANCE OF SEMANTIC
TECHNOLOGIES

13. EUROPEANA SEM TECH MINDMAP

14. EUROPEANA SEM TECH MINDMAP DETAIL

15. RESEARCHSPACE
AVirtualResearch Environmentfor artresearch
Funded bythe Andrew Mellon Foundation
Executed bythe British Museum
Software developed byOntotext
Uses Ontotext's semantic database (OWLIM)
Provided all2.5M objects of the British Museum as Linked
Open Data(LOD)

16. 2.5M BRITISH MUSEUM OBJECTS AS LOD

17. RESEARCHSPACE SEMANTIC SEARCH
Also works across collections, egBM and Yale Center for
British Art

18. RESEARCHSPACE: SEMANTIC DATA ANNOTATION

19. RESEARCHSPACE: SEMANTIC IMAGE ANNOTATION

20. BULGARIANA
ABulgarian aggregator to Europeana

21. BULGARIANA COLLECTION: THRACIAN GOLD

22. RHYTON AT EUROPEANA
Now anyEuropean citizen can find it!

23. RHYTON AT EUROPEANA OPEN CULTURE
Others make beautifulapps with your data!

24. BULGARIANA COLLECTION FEATURED IN OPEN CULTURE
And publicize itfor you to an audience you couldn'treach!

25. EUROPEANA CREATIVE

26. EUROPEANA CREATIVE

27. ENABLING CREATIVES TO WORK WITH CH DATA
Pilots byeCreative partners
Open challenges, growingto incubation support
Help with collection data, contentreuse, EuropeanaAPIs,
creative workshop ideas…

28. IN 5 PILOT AREAS: TOURISM, SOCIAL NETWORKS, DESIGN,
NATURE, HISTORY

29. CREATIVE OPEN CHALLENGES AND INCUBATION SUPPORT

30. ONTOTEXT IN EUROPEANA
Ontotextworks on fundamentalbackend technologies
importantfor KPIs

31. EUROPEANA OAI AND SPARQL
Ontotextcreates OAI PMHserver for Europeana
So we or others can download objects in bulk
Ontotexthosts the Europeanasemantic data(EDM) in OWLIM
20M objects, 1.5 years old
workingwith Europeanato update it
Provides SPARQL querying
http://europeana.ontotext.com/sparql
http://europeana-test.ontotext.com/sparql

32. SPARQL 1.1 QUERIES
EgPolish Periodicals bylibraryand decade
http://europeana-test.ontotext.com/sparql
select
?date
(sum(?n1)as?Uniwersytetu_Warszawskiego)
(sum(?n2)as?Politechniki_Lubelskiej)
(sum(?n3)as?Baltycka)
{
?xdc:type'periodical'@en.
?xore:proxyIn/edm:dataProvider?dataProvider.
?xdc:date?date2.
bind(xsd:integer(concat(substr(?date2,1,3),'0'))as?date)
bind(if(?dataProvider='e-bibliotekaUniwersytetuWarszawskiego',1,0)as?n
1)
bind(if(?dataProvider='BibliotekaCyfrowaPolitechnikiLubelskiej',1,0)as
?n2)
bind(if(?dataProvider='BałtyckaBibliotekaCyfrowa',1,0)as?n3)
}groupby?dateorderby?date

33. SPARQL ANALYTICS
EgPolish Periodicals bylibrary&decade (you can with it)jsfiddle

34. EDM OBJECT GRAPH

35. GETTY VOCABULARIES
Well-known and importantculturalheritage thesauri:
Artand Architecture Thesaurus (AAT)
Thesaurus of Geographic Names (TGN)
Unified Listof ArtistNames (ULAN)
CulturalObjectNames Authority(CONA)
Ontotextis publishingthem as Linked Open Data:
http://vocab.getty.edu
AATLOD published in Feb 2014, alreadysees numerous use
cases
Firstindustrialuse of the latestISO standard on thesauri: ISO
25946
Contributed to ISO 25946 ontology
Specialsession atCIDOC Congress (Dresden, Sep 2014)

36. USE OF ISO 25946 IN GETTY LOD