A paper from Museums and the Web 2009. Eero Hyvönen, Helsinki University of Technology (TKK), Finland http://www.kulttuurisampo.fi/ We present an overview of CultureSampo, an ambitious system for creating a collective semantic memory of the cultural heritage of a nation on the Semantic Web 2.0, combining ideas underlying the Semantic Web and the Web 2.0. The system addresses the semantic Web challenge of aggregating highly heterogeneous, cross-domain cultural heritage collections and other contents into a semantically rich intelligent system for human and machine users. At the same time, CultureSampo is an approach to solving the social and practical Web 2.0 challenge of organizing the underlying collaborative ontology development and content creation work of memory organizations and citizens. This paper focuses on CultureSampo’s search, recommendation, and visualization services for the end-users. The key idea here is to access cultural heritage on the Semantic Web through nine “thematic perspectives”: places on the maps, the social network of cultural persons, timelines, and narrative texts, e.g. biographies and literary works. Session: Building and Using On-line Collections [Institutional] Keywords: CultureSampo, semantic memory, cultural heritage, thematic perspectives, Semantic Web, Web 2.0, user interfaces, semantic search, recommendation system, visualization

1. CultureSampo Finnish Culture on the Semantic Web 2.0 Thematic Perspectives for the End-user Eero Hyvönen , Eetu Mäkelä, Tomi Kauppinen, Olli Alm, Jussi Kurki, Tuukka Ruotsalo, Katri Seppälä, Joeli Takala, Kimmo Puputti, Heini Kuittinen, Kim Viljanen, Jouni Tuominen, Tuomas Palonen, Matias Frosterus, Reetta Sinkkilä, Panu Paakkarinen, Joonas Laitio and Katariina Nyberg Helsinki University of Technology (TKK) and University of Helsinki Semantic Computing Research Group (SeCo) http://www.seco.tkk.fi /

2. National Ontology Project in Finland FinnONTO 2003-2010 Antikvaria-ryhmä

4. The Vision: Semantic Web 2.0 of Cultural Heritage

6. Yes! This is the vision of CultureSampo

7. Challenges: Content Complexity & Production

8. Cultural Content Compexity: Heterogenous and Interlinked Encyclopedia Artifacts Maps Videos Buildings Fine arts Biographies Narratives Literature Cultural sites Music

9. Cultural Content Production: Distributed and Independent

10. Solution: the Semantic Web 2.0

11. CultureSampo in a Nutshell National Ontology Infrastructure Semantic Metadata Content Providers

12. ” Sampo” -- The Magic Finnish Drum/Machine of Wisdom (Kalevala epic) National Ontology Infrastucture

13. Realization: CultureSampo -- Finnish Culture on the Semantic Web 2.0

15. CultureSampo Component 1/3 Infrastructure

16. KOKO: Finnish Collaborative Holistic Ontology : Ontology developer groups’ view YSO AFO MAO TAO VALO KOKO ... ... KOKO Ontology ca. 37,000 class concepts

17. Finnish Collaborative Holistic Ontology KOKO: Ontology end-users’ view YSO AFO MAO TAO VALO KOKO KOKO Ontology

18. Finnish Ontology Library Service ONKI: http://www.yso.fi 66 vocabularies, taxonomies, and ontologies online as services

19. CultureSampo Component 2/3 Content Creation Process

20. CultureSampo Content Providers (28+): museums, libraries, archieves, researcher organizations, media companies + citizens Thanks for cooperation!

21. Metadata Schemas

26. CultureSampo Component 3/3 The Semantic Web 2.0 Portal

28. Semantic Widget: Using CultureSampo like Google Maps in Mash-up Applications

29. Nine Thematic Perspectives into Cultural Heritage Three languages Nine perspectives Lately commented items Lately viewed items Search box

30. Semantic Keyword Search with Autocompetion & Result Categorization

31. 1. Map Browse and Search 1/4: Tab Search for Items on the Map

32. 1. Map Browse and Search 2/4: Tab Historical Areas Semantic recommendations Historical Helsinki 1640-1945

33. 1. Map Browse and Search 3/4: Tab Historical Maps on Google Maps Wikipedia articles Panoramio photos Links to historical places

35. 1. Map Browse and Search 4/4: Tab Find Near-by Sites of Interest

36. 2. Relational Search: ”How is A. Gallen-Kallela related to Napolean I ?”

37. 3. Search and Organize Idea: Domain-centric Faceted Search + Visualizations of Resuts ” Beard fashion in Finland through times”

38. Photos of Churces in Finland

39. 4. Collections Organizational Perspective

40. 5. Finnish History Co-operation with History Researchers External web page embedded in CultureSampo Timeline of history

41. 6. Skill Documentations A Semantic Video Viewer Semantic recommendations Semantic process description Dynamic information about the video scene

42. 7. Biography Perspective National Biography on the Semantic Web Semantically annotated biographies Links to related works, persons, places etc.

43. 8. Semantic Kalevala: The computer ”understands” the national epic Kalevala Semantically annotated 50 poems of the national epic Translation into modern Finnish Links to related art etc.

44. Semantic recommendations of a scene

45. Visualizing the narrative structure

46. 9. Karelia Perspective A Regional and Political View Semantically annotated Wikipedia pages Semantic recommendation links

49. Publications & demos & more information: http://www.seco.tkk.fi/applications/kulttuurisampo

50. Questions? ?! http://www.seco.tkk.fi http://www.seco.tkk.fi/ Try CultureSampo yourself at home: http://www.kulttuurisampo.fi/