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Egypt
Multilingual Culture and Heritage Internet Search System Developed
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Yes, I know - not exactly Egyptology news (again) but something that in the future might be applied usefully to Egypt and its heritage. You can blame Kat for this one because she forwarded it to me :-) And my excuse, as usual, is that it's a slow news day anyway.
European researchers say they are pushing online culture and heritage research way beyond Google by using a smart search system that is multilingual, multimedia and optimised for cultural heritage. Better yet, this promising system has wide application in other fields.
European researchers have developed an optimised search system that can access an enormous quantity of cultural heritage resources that reside online. Current technology like Google takes a scattergun approach, dishing up dozens of links of sometimes variable quality.
“Right now, if you do a search online, you get lots of irrelevant overload,” explains Pasquale Savino, coordinator of the MultiMatch project, which set out to create state-of-the-art search technology for cultural heritage information.
The MultiMatch system targets searches using a variety of smart search methods. Better yet, the concept can be applied to other fields, like sport, politics, economics and technology.
“Consider that many portals already offer a specialised catalogue, but in many cases the selection and classification of data is done manually, while the MultiMatch platform can perform this work automatically,” Savino reveals.
Three trumps
Savino says MultiMatch trumps standard search in three, vital ways. “The system does not simply query the web, it also searches through archives, many of them not publically available,” he notes.
Archives like the National Library of Austria (ONB), Biblioteca Virtual Miguel de Cervantes and the Israel National Library, though currently the system accesses just a portion of these resources for research purposes.
It also supports multimedia searches, and not simply by looking for pictures by name. It can look for pictures using other pictures. If a user has one picture, say of Picasso’s Guernica, the system can search for images in a similar style. It can do the same types of search for sound and video resources, too.
MultiMatch is also fluent in six languages. A search entered in Polish can be targeted to look for results in Spanish, or English, Italian, Dutch and German – the other four languages that the system currently recognises.
Finally, MultiMatch presents its results in an aggregated way, with resources clearly identified by type and sorted by priority, whether it is relevance, historical period or some other criteria. It is a prioritised, sorted and easily grasped layout of results, a bit like a newspaper created on the fly, for your particular query.
See the above page for the full story.
- British Museum Semantic Web Endpoint
The British Museum This month the British Museum launched a service known as a Semantic Endpoint that will allow more direct online access to the collection database. Although it is a technical service it will support the creation of new web applications...
- World Digital Library
http://www.wdl.org/en/ Thanks to David Petersen for pointing me at this website. I could have sworn that I had featured it before but I cannot find it in any searches made on the blog, but apologies if this is a duplicated post. Mission The World Digital...
- Sisyphos Archaeological And Egyptological Search Engine
intute Thanks to Rhio Barnhart for this link. I hadn't come across the site before he pointed it out. Sisyphos Description Sisyphos is an Internet search engine providing access only to archaeological and Egyptological websites. Similarly to Intute,...
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