Ontological Domain Coding for Cultural Heritage Mediation

  • Authors:
  • Rossana Damiano;Vincenzo Lombardo;Fabrizio Nunnari;Antonio Pizzo

  • Affiliations:
  • Dipartimento di Informatica and CIRMA, Università/ di Torino, Italy/ E-mail: rossana@di.unito.it;Dipartimento di Informatica and CIRMA, Università/ di Torino/ E-mail: vincenzo@di.unito.it;VRMMP, Torino/ E-mail: nunnari@vrmmp.it;Dipartimento DAMS and CIRMA, Università/ di Torino/ E-mail: antonio.pizzo@unito.it

  • Venue:
  • Proceedings of the 2008 conference on Formal Ontologies Meet Industry
  • Year:
  • 2008

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Abstract

An ontology-based representation of information about a domain is flexible enough to support different strategies in presenting the information. In this paper, we present two applications for creating interactive presentations in a cultural heritage domain, that share the same database of informative units and the same representation of the domain, encoded in a light-weight ontology. An application for drama-based guided tours assembles the informative units in a location-aware fashion, by exploiting the structure of the ontology to enforce the notion of discourse focusing in the generated presentation. A browsing-based application for accessing the informative units supports semantic search, consulting the ontology to suggest modifications of the user's search to circumscribe or enlarge the result sets.