Passed on for information of Forum participants (apologies for
cross-posting).
DigiCULT was established by European Union funding to examine and prepare
recommendations on aspects of digital cultural heritage.
Ed
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Subject: [DIGICULT-NEWSLETTER] DigiCULT News Announcement - Thematic
Issue 3 - "Towards a Semantic Web for Heritage Resources" - Now
Available
Importance: High
Thematic Issue 3 - Now Available
Towards a Semantic Web for Heritage Resources
DigiCULT's Experts Tangle with the Semantic Web
"The course of the debate at the Darmstadt DigiCULT Forum had not always
been so direct. It had started with the Position Paper's dismaying thought
that the limited understanding of information processing in the heritage
sector almost makes the Semantic Web an impossibility to apply. It had
touched on Simeon poetry, art works of the biblical seductress Salome,
weather forecasts for the northern English city of York, and revolutionary
theories of 16th-century Italian astronomer Galileo. But the experts agreed,
that ..."
For the conclusions reached by the experts in unravelling the vision of the
Semantic Web and its significance for the Cultural Heritage Sector, please
download the full version of the DigiCULT Thematic Issue 3 below.
DigiCULT Thematic Issue 3 - Content:
- Towards a Semantic Web for Heritage Resources
- Semantic Web Terms and Reading List: A-X
- Cultural Heritage Semantic Web Example & Primer
- 2 Interviews with practitioners
Download DigiCULT Thematic Issue 3:
Low-Res http://data.digicult.info/download/ti3_low.pdf (1,4 MB)
High-Res http://data.digicult.info/download/ti3_high.pdf (3,4 MB)
Comment on the Technology Watch Briefings: Each briefing for the upcoming
DigiCULT Technology Watch Reports are made available for comment online. The
first draft of the latest briefing "The XML Family of Technologies" is
online, more are expected soon. Comments and suggestions to be implemented
in the final draft are cordially invited.
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