MOSAICA Presentation Cultural Heritage Project Meeting 30 June 2006

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1 Presentation Cultural Heritage Project Meeting 30 June 2006 Raphael ATTIAS Nahum KORDA Project characteristics SCOPE: Semantically Enhanced, Multifaceted, Collaborative Access to Cultural Heritage Intelligent presentation, knowledge based discovery Interactive and creative user experience Time frame Start date : 1 st June 2006 Duration : 30 months Budget 465 person-months Funding

2 Consortium Partner s Country Organisation Role in the project Name type ORT FR NGO - Project management and consortium leadership - Pedagogical approach - Requirements analysis IARD IT Non-profit Organisation - Assessment of methodology and business model developed in the socio economic activity - Dissemination of the project results, acting as multiplier of the activities performed - Dissemination of project s outcomes - Business planning for commercial exploitation COI PL NGO - Requirements engineering - Pedagogical research - Evaluation and validation of technology - Dissemination of the project results JAFI IL NGO - Contents and cultural heritage research - Pedagogical research - Socio-economic research and societal impact SHU UK Academy - Independent evaluator of project results Technion IL Academy - Design of guidelines for educational resources. - Development of the Virtual Expeditions methodology. - Assessment Toolbox - Evaluation of educational and societal impact Straight UK SME - Semantic Web expert - Ontology engineering - Semantic annotation - Natural language processing INESC PT Research Institute - Multimedia content management and adaptation - Multimedia networking - Distributed applications development XLAB SI SME - Visualisation - Distributed framework Cybercultus LU SME - GIS/TIS technologies - Imaging and multimedia content Focusing on History of Cultures Telling the story about cultural history Tradition, customs, way of life Cultural presence across Europe Cultural artifacts ( Mosaica or today Judaica ), historical documentation, cultural data The proposed pilot and proof of concept are unique: Promoting multiculturalism and cultural pluralism Jewish Diaspora cannot be handled without the context of Anti-Semitism and Xenophobia Accordingly, combating Anti-Semitism and xenophobia, and promoting multiculturalism and cultural pluralism is one of the proposal s key objectives

3 Bridge between Cultural Heritage and Education Aim Make cultural heritage fun primarily for young Promote cultural, religious and racial pluralism Train to be discriminative in taste or judgment; "Cultivate your musical taste"; "Train your tastebuds"; "She is well schooled in poetry (WordNet) [synonyms] polish, refine, fine-tune, down - improve or perfect by pruning or polishing; "refine one's style of writing (WordNet) How is it done? Virtual Expeditions An innovative approach to the creation of user experience : As a new search and retrieval methodology As a new consumption experience Encounter with cultural heritage must become contemporary: Interactive, Playful, Entertaining Example of a Virtual Expedition

4 The Approach Technological focus is on Content integration: Conceptual modeling of cultural information (semantics-based thematic whole ) Single-point access to distributed content sources Unification of multiple multimedia formats and multilingual content Improved accessibility, search and retrieval capabilities, content management Envisioned use of technology is clearly Content management and Knowledge management oriented: Collaborative authoring Creative user experience Search and retrieval Content sharing Core Technological Innovation From the technological point of view, is primarily an attempt to develop the Next generation search engine: Intelligent (ontology-driven) All-in-one display (information aggregation) Multilingual Seamless aggregation of multiple formats Seamless access to multiple, distributed content sources (including the so-called Deep Web digital libraries, collections, repositories)

5 Detailed Objectives Conceptual Framework Unifying framework for the ontology-based conceptualisation of cultural objects and resources Tools and utilities for online communities to contribute their knowledge, to partake in a dynamic publishing process of the cultural resources Interactive knowledge-driven, user-friendly interfaces Simplified means of searching & accessing distributed digital contents through a multi-faceted portal Innovative Methodology and Tools for designing VIRTUAL EXPEDITIONS Thematically organised succession of virtual objects Pre-selected semantically-based pathways and alternative trails used-published by previous visitors Conceptualization Assumption: numerous cultural heritage resources on WWW Problem: How to find them? How to combine them? How to use them? (Possibly also: how to access them?) Requirement: framework for conceptual modelling of domain Goal: unify distributed cultural heritage resources into a single thematic frame Means: Ontology alignment: automatic merging of knowledge from distributed ontologies in order to model domain Distributed content management: access to distributed content from a single frame

6 Collaborative Editing Assumption: content user is potentially also content editor and content provider Problem: Web publishing designed for consumption Collaborative technologies limited to file sharing Rare application of collaborative technologies to cultural heritage Requirement: collaborative framework Means: Collaborative publishing methodology Semantic annotation (collaborative conceptual modeling) Content sharing (distributed content management) Creative User Experience Assumption: Web technologies suitable for creating complex user experience Problem: Technically complicated (for both providers and users) Rarely adapted to cultural heritage (complex cultural objects) Limited usefulness if not driven by conceptual modelling of domain Requirement: integration of state-of-the-art multimedia technologies with technologies for conceptual modelling and collaborative publishing Means: Knowledge-driven multifaceted access to cultural heritage content GIS/TIS Semantic search and navigation (including Virtual Expeditions) Seamless integration of multimedia content (distributed content management)

7 Virtual Expedition Thematically-organised succession of virtualised cultural objects Exposed as Web resources, Bound together by a conceptual model, Allowing interactive exploration through alternative trails, or through examination of the thematically pre-selected semantically related content Motivation Transforming cultural heritage content consumption into TV experience Integrating interactivity with guided consumption Empowering cultural heritage consumers with means to become cultural heritage providers Inspired by interactive TV and computer games Preliminary System Architecture Online Utilities Multifaceted Interfaces Virtual Expedition Maker Semantic Annotator Ontology Editor Semantic Annotations Ontology Logical Reasoning and Inference Engine Repository of Educational Resources GIS Semantic Directory Semantic Search Distributed Ontology Alignment Services Distributed Content Management Services WWW

8 Milestones Date Key Milestone description Month 12 Design The design of the system and application is complete Resources have been selected for the Web portal on Jewish heritage A business strategy is outlined Month 24 System The system and application are running The Web portal on Jewish heritage is sufficiently advanced for end -users The business strategy has been transformed into business plans Month 30 Validation The system and the Web portal on Jewish heritage have been revised according to user feedback The societal impact of has been assessed Partners business plans are fully de veloped Contact Raphaël ATTIAS ORT France raphael.attias@ort.asso.fr