Transcript Bulgariana Collections (2)

Ontotext Experience in Cultural Heritage
Bulgariana Collections in Europeana
Vladimir Alexiev, PhD, PMP
Mariana Damova, PhD
Conference "Europeana and the Bulgarian Institutions", Plovdiv, 3-4 Apr 2012
Semantic Technology Applicability to CH
• Best way to interconnect data. If the Web (1.0) is a giant hyper-linked document,
Semantic Web (3.0) is a giant linked data-base
• Unified, globalized and abstracted representation (RDF, RDFS, OWL2, RIF). Schema info
(metadata) is represented the same way as data
• Ontologies and schemas ensure metadata interoperability
(ESE, EDM, LIDO, CIDOC CRM, EADS, MODS…)
• Linked Open Data provides additional context
(DBpedia, GeoNames, FreeBase, WordNet, …)
• Thesauri ensure consistent vocabulary
(Getty ULAN, AAT, TGN; IconClass, VIAF, etc)
• adopts semtech for all future development (EDM). First White Paper "Knowledge =
Information in Context" looks at the key role of LOD
– "Linked data gives machines the ability to make associations and put search terms into context.
Without linked data, Europeana could be seen as a simple collection of digital objects. With linked
data, the potential is far greater"
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Ontotext
• Ontotext is a Bulgarian company with 65 staff: Sofia, Varna, Ruse,
Asenovgrad, Innsbruck (AT), London (UK), Connecticut (US), Wellington (NZ)
• Started in 2000 as a research lab in Sirma Group. Spun off in 2008 with
investment from NEVEQ
• World-leader in semantic technologies. 360-degree semtech: repository
(OWLIM), text mining (KIM, GATE), web mining (WMF), Ontology and
Linked Data Management
• Most successful Bulgarian participant in EU FP 5,6,7 research projects (16
completed, 7 in execution). Received the prestigious Pitagoras award
• Revenue growth in the last 3 years: 210%. 5M BGL in 2011, over 7M
expected in 2012
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Commercial Projects
• Commercial revenue grew 10x in last 3 years and is close to 2/3 of
total
• Data providers 27% (jobs, food, cars), Media/Publishing 26%,
Government 18%, Life Sciences 11%, Cultural Heritage 10%, Telecom
4%
• Technical topics range from core semtech to ontology design, master
data management, web services, SOA, business processes, eGov, etc
etc
• UK 59%, US 18%, Global 9%, BG 7%, IT 3%, KR 2%, MX 2%, DE, NL
• Regular SemTech training courses in London
• Great potential in Cultural Heritage so we want to focus on that
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Clients Related to Media and Cultural Heritage
• Project clients: UK, KR, JP, SE, NL, BG
• Research projects executed by Ontotext
• Projects using OWLIM: EU, PL, JP, UK
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Projects Related to Media and Cultural Heritage (1)
• British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC): Dynamic Semantic Publishing. The
World Cup (2010), BBC Sports (2011) and Olympics (2012) multi-sites run on top
of OWLIM. KIM-based Concept Extraction
• Press Association (UK): commercial image annotation and search, Concept
Extraction
• The National Archives (UK): Semantic KB and search for Government Web
Archive. 780M documents (150M after de-duplication), 10B facts
• British Museum (UK): ResearchSpace project funded by Mellon Foundation
(US): Collaborative web-based research for the cultural heritage scholarly
community. Based on the CIDOC CRM ontology
• de Bibliothek (NL): data aggregation from 150 national/local sources to
semantic format, unified search (40M objects)
• National Institute of Informatics (JP): Linked Open Data in Academia (LODAC):
aggregates museum and other data across multiple Japanese resources
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Projects Related to Media and Cultural Heritage (2)
• Polish Digital National Museum (PL): aggregates artifacts from 70 contributing
cultural institutions
• PrestoSpace (FP6): Preservation towards storage and access. Standardized
Practices for Audiovisual Contents in Europe. Continuation: PrestoCenter.org
• MOLTO (FP7) : Multilingual Online Translation. Knowledge infrastructure,
interoperability between natural language and structured queries, museum
object descriptions in 15 languages. Based on the CIDOC CRM ontology
• Gothenburg City Museum (SE): 9K museum objects for use case of CH
knowledge representation that allows querying and presenting semantic search
results in natural language.
• Bulgariana (BG, KR): a Bulgarian aggregator for Europeana, including digital
repository for CH objects, semantic conversion (ESE, EDM), submission to
Europeana, and community building
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Bulgariana
• A Bulgarian aggregator to Europeana that includes
– A public website for sharing information
– A wiki (Confluence) for discussion, technical materials, coordination and
collaboration
– A digital repository (DSpace) for storing and presenting digitized cultural
heritage
– Conversion/ingestion tools for converting objects to the required Europeana
formats: ESE and EDM (pilot)
– An OAI-PMH endpoint for serving content to Europeana
– Semantic search using OWLIM (in the future)
• Partners
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BG-KR IT Cooperation Center: initial funding
Ontotext: initiative, semtech, Europeana contact
Sirma Media: digital repository
And we want you!
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Collaboration and Networking
• Google Group "Cultural Heritage Digitalisation"
– Jointly created with SU FMI in Oct 2011
– 40 members, 80 messages in 5 months (still not a lot of activity…)
• Meetings
– 20121010: joint MS program in Digitalization (IMI BAS, UNIBIT).
Welcome by Ontotext, proposed to use Bulgariana as a platform
– 20120119: Restart(?) of expert working group (Ministry of Culture)
– 20120130: Europeana1 "Mission Possible" (Ontotext, Sofia University)
– 20120319: Europeana2: “Bulgarian projects for digitalization and presentation of cultural
heritage Europeana" (V.Tarnovo Regional Library)
 All presentations and contacts are published
– 20120305: “Workshop on Multilingual Digital Repositories and Services” (Sofia: ITD, VirtSOI,
DSLL, ATLAS, Share.TEC)
– 20120918: "Digitalization, Preservation and Presentation of Cultural and Scientific Heritage"
(DiPP 2012, organized by IMI BAS, hosted by V.Tarnovo Library)
– 201211xx: Europeana3 (Varna Regional Library)
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Current Proposals
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WSR4Europeana (web science research for Europeana): FP7 People (Marie Curie) Initial
Training Network (Multi-Partner ITN). Doctoral research, exchanges, training
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SmartCulture: Regions of Knowledge 2012 cluster of clusters
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International: Madrid, Basque, Birmingham, Siena, Eindhoven, Central Denmark, Sofia
BG cluster: Sofia Development Organization, Sofia University, UNIBIT, IMI-BAS, Ontotext, Tetracom, DSLL
Ontology-based Digital Platform for Knowledge Sustainability: ICT Call9
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Partners: Humboldt U (DE), Tampere (FI), Aalto U (FI), FORTH (GR), RSLIS (DK), U Mannheim (DE), VU Brussel (BE),
NTUA (GR), Ontotext (BG), Seme4 (UK), Net7 (IT),
Associated: Europeana (NL), CNR ISTI (IT), U Carlos III (ES), CCS (DE), Tufts U (US)
Emerging fields, incl. semantic repositories for Europeana, semantic annotation
U Lyon, invited GeoCad93. Tentative
Balkan Wars: PSP Call6
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Idea by PrimaSoft/SoftLib. Interest VTU, V.Tarnovo library , IMI BAS, Plovdiv Library
Need 6 international partners: Turkey, Serbia, Macedonia, etc.Tentative
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Geographical Regions : PSP Call6. BAS, Austria, Romania, GeoCad93. Tentative
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Slavonic Manuscripts: PSP Call6. BAS, tentative
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Bulgariana Wiki
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Bulgariana Collections (1)
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Pra-historic and
Thracian
Civilizations
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Unpublished
Thracian
archeological
objects. Prof.
Valeria Fol,
Center of
Thracology at the
Institute for
Balkan Studies at
the Bulgarian
Academy of
Sciences
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Bulgariana Collections (2)
• Golden Pages from the Bulgarian Renaissance
– Unique manuscripts of Bulgarian folk songs collected in 19th century
by Miladinov Brothers, published in 2008 by Dr Luchia Antonova, Institute of
Bulgarian Language, BAS
МАРКО КРАЛЕВИКИ БОЛЕН СЕ КАИТ И СЕ
ИСПОВЕДВИТ
Поболил се Марко Кралевике,
що си лежал токму три години,
от нищо се иляч (1) не на’ож’ал.
И му рече негва стара майќа:
“Ай ти, Марко, ай ти, синко милий;
не си болен, синко, от господа,
тук си болен, синко, от гре’о’и,
да ти викна попой (2), ду’овници,
лепо да се синко исповедиш,
да си кажиш твоите гре’о’и!”
….
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Bulgariana Collections Published to Europeana (1)
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Bulgariana Collections Published to Europeana (2)
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