SmartMuseum Files

Construction of Software Infrastructure for Collaborative Semantic Annotating, Information Linking, and Personalized Access to Corpus of Everyday life history Sources.

Everyday life history is becoming of high interest due to the growing amount of various historical sources related to common human being. Analysis of such sources needs considering them as interrelated. Evaluation of such relations leads to meaningful results for different groups of information consumers: from professional historians and experts from close humanitarian sciences to common people, interested in everyday community life. Corpuses of everyday life history sources are being collected in many museums and document archives. Annotation of such sources is a challenging problem. First, a lot of sources and respondents (who provides information on a source) are involved. Second, semantic analysis is needed to mine interrelated information in such a corpus. Therefore, a history sources corpus has to be considered as a system that supports: (a) collaborative addition of sources and their semantic annotation; (b) semantic relation of information represented in different sources; (c) personalized provision of information from the same sources to different people in dependence on the task and interests of the researcher.
In this project, we consider the problem of creating software infrastructure for collaborative semantic annotation, information relation, and personalized access to corpus of everyday life history sources. We propose to solve the problem based on development of the following three methods. 1) method of collaborative addition of sources into corpus of everyday life history sources and their semantic annotation with the use of emerging information and communication technologies of the Internet of Things and the diversity of digital devices. 2) method of semantic relation of information presented in different sources and with the use of ontology modeling methods and technologies of the Semantic Web. 3) method supporting personalized access to corpus of collected everyday life history sources and their semantics with the use of recommender and multi-agent systems and personal mobile devices as basic control point of the user. We suggest to apply the known approach of smart spaces, when users, information services, and history sources become virtual participants of “a common digital space”. For the experimental study we plan to utilize History Museum of Petrozavodsk State University (PetrSU), which has existed since 1987 and collects sources on the university history for period from 1931 to 2015. Intermediate and final results of this research are to be published in several scientific papers. We also plan to apply for patents on implemented software and data bases.

Keywords: Everyday life history, Source criticism, Semantics, Museum exposition, Smart spaces, Information 

Project financially supported from Department for Humanities of Russian Fund for Basic Research according to project # 16-01-12033

THE TEAM

Project wiki page: http://oss.fruct.org/wiki/SmartMuseum

Developers:
 
Andrey Vdovenko (2017–ongoing):
   smartmuseum-android, museum-content-service

Sergey Marchenkov (2017–ongoing):
   enrichment-service, visit-service

Oksana Petrina (2017–ongoing):
   enrichment-service, visit-service

Adviser: Dmitry G. Korzun, PhD, Adjunct Professor.
   
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