SCULPTEUR: Towards a New Paradigm for Multimedia Museum Information Handling

Abstract

Abstract. This paper describes the design and prototype implementation of a novel architecture for integrated concept, metadata and content based browsing and retrieval of museum information. The work is part of a European project involving several major galleries and the aim is to provide more versatile access to digital collections of museum artefacts, including 2-D images, 3-D models and other multimedia representations. An ontology for the museum domain, based on the CIDOC Conceptual Reference Model, is being developed as a semantic layer with references to the digital collection as instance information. A graphical concept browser is an integral component in the user interface, allowing navigation through the semantic layer, display of thumbnails, or full representations of artefacts and textual information in appropriate viewers and the invocation of conventional content based searching or combined querying. Semantic Web technologies are used in system integration to describe how tools for analysis and visualisation can be applied to different data types and sources. This supports flexible and managed formulation, execution and interpretation of the results of distributed multimedia queries. Combined searches using concepts, content and metadata can be initiated from a single user interface.

Knowledge-based multimedia adaptation for ubiquitous multimedia consumption

“…There exist some first approaches like reported in [20][21][22][23] that aim at exploiting the general knowledge-representation and reasoning mechanisms from the Semantic Web and OWL in order to open new possibilities for multimedia consumption.…”

“…A quite different use of ontologies for multimedia services can be found in [20]. In the SCULPTEUR project, a multimedia information system in a digital museum was developed, in which OWL-based ontologies are used as enabling technology for advanced concept-, metadata-, and content browsing and -retrieval functionality.…”

VIPS - a highly tuned image processing software architecture

“…In the Artiste [10] and SCULPTEUR [11] projects contentbased image retrieval was based around VIPS functions. These produced small feature vector files including histograms, CCVs, PWTs etc., which were later, compared to give match scores.…”

Toward Semantic Web Services for Multimedia Adaptation

“…In [13] an approach is presented, where ontologies are serving as integrating technology for advanced concept, metadata, and content browsing and retrieval in the domain of digital museum information. In this work, a domain ontology and a semantic layer with references to the actual objects of the digital collection like 2-D or 3-D images and models was developed.…”