Using Semantics in XML Information Access: Application to the Portuguese Emigration Museum

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Author(s): Flavio Xavier Ferreira (University of Minho, Portugal), Pedro Rangel Henriques (University of Minho, Portugal)and Alda Lopes Gancarski (Institut Telecom, France)
Copyright: 2013
Pages: 18
Source title: Innovations in XML Applications and Metadata Management: Advancing Technologies
Source Author(s)/Editor(s): José Carlos Ramalho (Universidade do Minho, Portugal), Alberto Simões (Universidade do Minho, Portugal)and Ricardo Queirós (CRACS & INESC-Porto LA, Faculdade de Ciências, Universidade do Porto, Portugal)
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-4666-2669-0.ch011

Keywords: Data Modeling Languages / Information Science Reference / Science & Engineering / Systems and Software Engineering

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This chapter presents an ongoing work in the context of the Portuguese Emigration Museum about information access in XML collections associated with semantic information. The museum asset is made up of documents of more than 8 kinds, ranging from passport records to photos/cards and building-drawings. In this chapter, the authors discuss the approach used to create the exhibition rooms of the virtual Web-based museum. Each room consists of the information contained in those single or interrelated resources. The information exhibited in each room is described by an ontology, written in OWL. The authors also discuss the approach used to take advantage of a combination of structural and semantic information to efficiently retrieve documents from the MEC collection. Both approaches can be automatised to allow a very systematic way to deal with the huge and rich museum assets.

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