COMP 6703 eScience Project Semantic Web for Museums

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COMP 6703 eScience ProjectSemantic Web for
Museums

• Student Lei Junran
• Client/Technical Supervisor Tom Worthington
• Academic Supervisor Peter Strazdins
• Period 2006 Semester 1

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What is in my presentation

• Introduction to the Project
• What is Semantic Web?
• Why use Semantic Web for Museums
• Project Context
• Project Content
• Project Requirements
• Project Schedule

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What Semantic Web can do?

• Most of the Web's content today is designed for
  humans to read. Content of Semantic Web is
  meaningful to computers
• Allows data to be shared and reused across
  application, enterprise, and community
  boundaries.

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One Simple Example

• Search keyword Computer in google
• Search keyword Computer in a semantic web demo
  system

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Why Semantic Web for Museum

• Provide museums a more flexible way to catalog
  their materials and share digital representations
  of it.
• Represent the future form of web content

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Project Context

• A week long workshop
• By Mr Tom Worthington
• About the use of technology for museums of the
  Pacific islands region
• Recommendation building an on-line repository of
  materials from across the Pacific museums

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Project Context

• A previous project under the same topic
• By a computer science student at ANU
• Investigating how museum online archive could be
  done using the Semantic Web
• Results further work on this approach would be
  worthwhile

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Project Content

• What I ll do in this project?
• What technologies are involved?

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What I ll do in this project?

• Develop an effective semantic web archive system
  for museums
• Some research components produced during the
  development process.

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What Major technologies are involved?

• Metadata
• RDF
• Ontology
• Repository

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Project Requirements
Business Requirements

• Promote collaboration and knowledge sharing
  between museums
• Create a resource and knowledge management
  network or a regional digital archive of
  materials among museums
• Help the Museum Community preserve their distinct
  cultural heritage knowledge for future
  generations

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Project Requirements
Client Requirements

• How to present semantic data to users. Design
  usable semantic web interface specifically for
  museums.
• Design or select metadata suitable to museum
  situation.
• Design or select RDF, Ontology, repository, and
  other components suitable to museum situation.

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Project Requirements
Client Requirements

• What tools and standards should be used? Select
  suitable tools and standards for the project
  context.
• Produce an exercisable and effective online
  semantic archive system among museums.

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Project Requirements User
Requirements

• Provide online digital archive system.
• For the limited technical staff, equipment and
  telecommunication links of the region.
• Access and use by scholarly, non expert users and
  general public.

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Project Schedule

• Microsoft Project is a good tool to manage
  project
• Timetable Gantt chart - See attachment

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Reference

• 1. Report on a Workshop on the Use of Technology
  for Museums of the Pacific Islands Region 2005
  Tom Worthington
• 2.Digital Heritage for South Pacific Museums
  Project Findings and Report -- Kwok Chung, Yew
• 3.The Semantic Web, Scientific American, May 2001
  -- Tim Berners-Lee, James Hendler, Ora Lassila
• 4.Semantic Web -- W3C
• 5.Sustainable Online Technology for Museums of
  the Pacific Islands Region Tom Worthington

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Reference

• 6.http//www.tomw.net.au/2005/emuseums - Tom
  Worthington
• 7.http//www.tomw.net.au/2005/dm - Tom
  Worthington
• 8.Semantic Web Road map - Tim Berners-Lee
• 9.Semantic Web demo - http//claimaker.open.ac.uk/
  Sandpit/
• 10.Chris Blackall's Research Notepad
  http//ibid.typepad.com/phd/technologies/index.htm
  l - Chris Blackall
• Making a Semantic Web - Joshua Allen