Abstract
People frequently need to find knowledge related to places when they plan a leisure trip, when they are executing that plan in a certain place, or when they want to virtually explore a place they have visited in the past. In this chapter the authors present and discuss a set of methods for searching and browsing spatio-temporally referenced knowledge related to cultural objects, e.g. artifacts, photographs and visiting sites. These methods have been implemented in the semantic cultural heritage portal CultureSampo that offers map-based interfaces for a user to explore hundreds of thousands of content objects and points of interest in Finland. Theirgoal is develop and demonstrate novel ways to help the user 1) to decide where © 2011, IGI Global.
| Original language | English |
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| Title of host publication | Digital Culture and E-Tourism: Technologies, Applications and Management Approaches |
| Editors | Miltiadis Lytras, Ernesto Damiani, Lily Diaz, Patricia Ordonez De Pablos |
| Publisher | IGI Global |
| Pages | 48-64 |
| Number of pages | 17 |
| ISBN (Electronic) | 978-1-61520-868-5 |
| ISBN (Print) | 978-1-61520-867-8 |
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| Publication status | Published - 2010 |
| MoE publication type | A3 Book section, Chapters in research books |
Keywords
- cultural heritage
- geospatial data
- ontologies
- semantic web
- spatio-temporal data
- web-based applications