Authors:
Christophe Ponsard
1
;
Aurélien Masson
2
and
Ward Desmet
3
Affiliations:
1
CETIC Research Centre, Charleroi, Belgium
;
2
ESEO Engineering School, Angers, France
;
3
NAM-IP Computer Museum, Namur, Belgium
Keyword(s):
Domain Specific Modelling, Ontology, Historical Knowledge, Visualization, Timeline, Case Study.
Abstract:
Cultural heritage as human science has a long tradition of text-based reporting and analysis. This domain has a very rich semantic structure, especially to relate many different types of entities anchored in some time period with more or less strong temporal inter-dependencies. Various modelling approaches, largely based on ontologies, have been proposed to capture and structure this kind of knowledge. In this paper, we are interested in easing the analysis capabilities on historical knowledge using the timeline as central concept that can be extracted and manipulated in various ways through specific operators sharing some similarities with multi-dimensional analysis in business intelligence. We propose zooming on a specific aggregates, pivoting from a timeline to another one or drilling-across to compare different timelines. Our work is illustrated on a concrete implementation targeting the Computing Heritage of the micro-computer period, including machines, operating systems, compa
nies, people and applications. The information is extracted from a museum information system combined with DBPedia. We also developed a specific visualisation tool under the form of a mobile application which can also be used as museum guide.
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