Authors:
Matteo Caserio
;
Anna Goy
and
Diego Magro
Affiliation:
Università di Torino, Italy
Keyword(s):
Digital Archives, User Interface, Semantic Metadata, Ontologies, Web Application.
Related
Ontology
Subjects/Areas/Topics:
Artificial Intelligence
;
Data Engineering
;
Digital Libraries
;
Intelligent Information Systems
;
Knowledge Management and Information Sharing
;
Knowledge-Based Systems
;
Metadata and Structured Documents
;
Ontologies and the Semantic Web
;
Symbolic Systems
;
Web Information Systems and Technologies
;
Web Interfaces and Applications
Abstract:
Documentary heritage about social and political history of the 20th Century could be an important support for citizens awareness, provided that it is not endangered by the lack of effective access and management tools. In this paper we present a work that is part of the Harlock'900 project and aims at showing how a rich semantic representation, based on ontologies and Semantic Web standards, can enable an innovative and user-friendly access to resources stored in historical archives. In particular, we present a web application enabling users to explore events, places and people mentioned in archival resources. The application relies on a semantic layer including a computational ontology and a RDF triplestore, and provides a User Interface that supports the navigation through highly interconnected data, offering different possible exploration paths. We also report the encouraging feedback obtained by a preliminary evaluation based on a domain expert walkthrough the app.