Authors:
Filippo Eros Pani
;
Simone Porru
;
Matteo Orrù
and
Simona Ibba
Affiliation:
University of Cagliari, Italy
Keyword(s):
Knowledge Management, Complex Network, Knowledge Base, Museum Services.
Related
Ontology
Subjects/Areas/Topics:
Artificial Intelligence
;
Communication, Collaboration and Information Sharing
;
Data Engineering
;
Digital Libraries
;
KM Strategies and Implementations
;
Knowledge Management and Information Sharing
;
Knowledge-Based Systems
;
Ontologies and the Semantic Web
;
Symbolic Systems
;
Web Information Systems and Technologies
;
Web Interfaces and Applications
Abstract:
In a globalized economy, cultural heritage is a strong attractor. Thanks to ICT, it is possible to trigger new
development dynamics. For cultural heritage, the contribution of new technologies can offer the highest
degree of distribution and access opportunities. A modern museum can actually be seen as a complex ICT
system, deeply interconnected, with typically a large quantity of data to manage, extremely dynamic due to
ever-changing temporary exhibitions, and with applications that feature a high level of usability for a higher
visitor involvement. The aim of this position paper is to create an approach geared to provide aggregated
information on the nature, range and articulation of the belongings of the museum, through a paradigm based
on the concept of complex network. Applying the complex network model, it will be possible to map a corpora
of items made of works of art, artifacts and any object of interest for a museum. The implications derived
from the adoption of this approac
h are multifarious: for example, a curator could evaluate partnership
opportunities in the organization of temporary exhibitions, guided paths or catalog editing through an analysis
of the relations between the items in their museum and the ones in other museums.
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