Contents: 1. Introduction 2. Related Work 2.1. Semantic Web Technologies in the Cultural Heritage Domain 2.2. Information Extraction 3. A Case Study: Tate Online 3.1. Users’ Requirements for Semantic Search 3.2. Prototype Development 4. Semantic Annotation 4.1. Information Sources 4.2. Recognising Imperfections in the Information 4.3. Extending Pre-Existing Sources with Information Extraction 5. Evaluation 5.1. Evaluating Semantic Annotation 5.2. Semantic …
Putting Hybrid Cultural Data on the Semantic Web
Contents: 1. Introduction 2. Converting Structured Data to RDF 3. Adding Text Relations – txt2rdf 4. Query Experiments 5. Conclusions References This paper explains how to augment structured data with “facts” automatically extracted from free text. This is done via a pipeline, txt2rdf, which takes in plain text at one end and pumps out RDF triples at the other. These …
Video Fingerprinting Technologies for Media and Security Applications
Contents: 1 Executive Summary 2 Introduction 3 Video Fingerprinting 4 Audio Fingerprinting 5 Near Duplicate Detection 6 Video Linking 7 Conclusions 8 References. Dit state-of-the-art rapport geeft een overzicht van de bestaande technologieën voor video-fingerprinting. Een video-fingerprinting systeem is bedoeld om te achterhalen of een specifiek videofragment (deels) is gebaseerd op enig videofragment uit de database waarin een collectie met …
Foundations of a Disaster Recovery Plan for the Shared Digital Repository
Contents: Executive Summary Acknowledgements Introduction HathiTrust’s Disaster Recovery Strategies Scenario 1: Hardware Failure or Obsolescence and Data Loss Scenario 2: Network Configuration Errors Scenario 3: Network Security and External Attacks Scenario 4: Format Obsolescence Scenario 5: Core Utility and/or Building Failure Scenario 6: Software Failure or Obsolescence Scenario 7: Operator Error Scenario 8: Physical Security Breach Scenario 9: Natural or …
Towards Affordable Disclosure of Spoken Heritage Archives
Contents: 1. Introduction 2. From spoken-word archive to multimedia information portal 3. Automatic annotation using automatic speech recognition 4. The Buchenwald user interface 5. Discussion and conclusion References This paper presents and discusses ongoing work aiming at affordable disclosure of real-world spoken heritage archives in general, and in particular of a collection of recorded video interviews with Dutch survivors of …
Guidelines on the Production and Preservation of Digital Audio Objects (Web version)
Contents: Publication Information Introduction to the Second Edition Introduction to the First Edition 1. Background 2. Key Digital Principles 3. Metadata 4. Unique and Persistent Identifiers 5. Signal Extraction from Original Carriers 6. Preservation Target Formats and Systems 7. Small Scale Approaches to Digital Storage Systems 8. Optical Discs 9. Partnerships, Project Planning and Resources References. These extensive guidelines, subtitled …

