First International Workshop on
Cultural Heritage on the Semantic Web

in conjunction with the 6th International Semantic Web Conference and
the 2nd Asian Semantic Web Conference, 2007


12 November 2007, Busan, Korea


Workshop Program

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9:00-9:05 Welcome
 
9:05-9:50 Invited talk: Searching beyond Vincent's Ear
by Bob Wielinga
  Human-Computer Studies Lab, University of Amsterdam
9:50-10:10 Improving the Accessibility of a Thesaurus-based Catalog by Web Content Mining
  Gijs Geleijnse, Jan Korst
  Philips Research
10:10-10:30 The value of usage scenarios for thesaurus alignment in Cultural Heritage context
  Antoine Isaac, Henk Matthezing, Lourens Van der Meij, Stefan Schlobach, Shenghui Wang, Claus Zinn
  VU University Amsterdam, Royal Dutch Library and Max Plank Institute
 
10:30-11:00 Coffee break
 
11:00-11:20 Automatic Exhibition Generation Based on Semantic Cultural Content
  Eetu Makela, Osma Suominen, Eero Hyvonen
  Helsinki University of Technology
11:20-11:40 Deploying Multimedia Metadata in Cultural Heritage on the Semantic Web
  Michael Hausenblas, Werner Bailer, Harald Mayer
  JOANNEUM RESEARCH
11:40-11:50 Finding Books Online
  Katja-Evelyn Huether, Lars Svensson
  German National Library
11:50-12:00 Event: Occurrence and Agency in Digital Resources
  Lewis Lancaster
  University of California, Berkeley
12:00-12:10 Cultural User Modeling With CUMO: An Approach to Overcome the Personalization Bootstrapping Problem
  Katharina Reinecke, Gerald Reif, Abraham Bernstein
  University of Zurich
12:10-12:20 Using an Ontology of Historical Events in Semantic Portals for Cultural Heritage
  Eero Hyvonen, Olli Alm, and Heini Kuittinen
  Helsinki University of Technology
 
12:20-12:30 Overview of Posters & Demos
 
12:30-14:00 Lunch break
 
14:00-14:45 Posters & Demos Session
  - Interactive Concept Discovery in Cultural Heritage Knowledge Repositories
  Masha Etkind, Uri Shafrir
  - Semantic Approach on Cultural Heritage Domain
    Francisca Hernandez Carrascal, Luis Rodrigo, Jesus Contreras, Francesco Carbone
  - Interoperability between archival and bibliographic metadata
    Lina Bountouri, Manolis Gergatsoulis
  - Building a Topic Map-driven Repository for Agricultural Learning Resources: a case study, Pritpal Kaur, Shelly Patwar
  - Publishing and Accessing Digital Archives using the EASAIER Framework
    Francois Scharffe, Yves Raimond, Luc Barthelemy, Ying Ding, Michael Luger
  - Searching For Arabic-based Contents: An approach Towards Using Arabic Derivatives
    Maqbool R. Al-Maimani, Ahmed Al-Naamany, Ahmed Zaki Abu Bakar
  - Intelligent Digital Libraries: From Retrieval to Recommendation
    P. Basile, M. de Gemmis, L. Iaquinta, A.L. Gentile, P. Lops, and G. Semeraro
  - Semantic Kalevala - Accessing Cultural Content Through Semantically Annotated Stories
    Eero Hyvonen, Joeli Takala, Olli Alm, Tuukka Ruotsalo, Eetu Makela
  - Role of Ontology in Semantic Web Development, Zeeshan Ahmed, Detlef Gerhard
  - An Agent based Approach towards Metadata Extraction, Modelling and Information Retrieval over the Web, Zeeshan Ahmed, Detlef Gerhard
  - Information Management Methods for Heritage Sites, Lia Bassa
  - Topic Maps Based Digital Artworks Collections, Darina Dicheva
  - RNA-project, working with things like thesauri and taxonomies in real cases!, Jeroen Wester, Hans Nederbragt
 
14:45-15:30 Parallel Working Groups, (tentative topics)
  - Modeling Cultural Heritage Events
  - Personalization for Cultural Heritage on the Semantic Web
  - Standards in Cultural Heritage on the Semantic Web
 
15:30-16:00 Coffee break
 
16:00-17:30 Plenary panel discussion on topics from WG & Presentations