Digital hermeneutics: Agora and the online understanding of cultural heritage

Authors:
Chiel van den Akker;Susan Legêne;Marieke van Erp;Lora Aroyo;Roxane Segers;Lourens van der Meij;Jacco van Ossenbruggen;Guus Schreiber;Bob Wielinga;Johan Oomen;Geertje Jacobs
Affiliations:
VU University Amsterdam, De Boelelaan, HV Amsterdam;VU University Amsterdam, De Boelelaan, HV Amsterdam;VU University Amsterdam;VU University Amsterdam;VU University Amsterdam;VU University Amsterdam;VU University Amsterdam;VU University Amsterdam;VU University Amsterdam;Netherlands Institute for Sound and Vision;Rijksmuseum Amsterdam
Venue:
Proceedings of the 3rd International Web Science Conference
Year:
2011

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Abstract

Cultural heritage institutions are currently rethinking access to their collections to allow the public to interpret and contribute to their collections. In this work, we present the Agora project, an interdisciplinary project in which Web technology and theory of interpretation meet. This we call digital hermeneutics. The Agora project facilitates the understanding of historical events and improves the access to integrated online history collections. In this contribution, we focus on defining and modeling prototypical object-event and event-event relationships that support the interpretation of objects in cultural heritage collections. We present a use case in which we model historical events as well as relations between objects and events for a set of paintings from the Rijksmuseum Amsterdam collection. Our use case shows how Web technology and theory of interpretation meet in the present, and what technological hurdles still need to be taken to fully support digital hermeneutics.