Mulholland, Paul; Wolff, Annika; Collins, Trevor and Zdrahal, Zdenek
(2011).
An event-based approach to describing and understanding museum narratives.
In: Detection, Representation, and Exploitation of Events in the Semantic Web (DeRiVE 2011) in conjunction with the 10th International Semantic Web Conference 2011 (ISWC 2011), 23 Oct 2011, Bonn, Germany.
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Abstract
Current museum metadata tends to be focused around the properties of the heritage object such as the artist, style and date of creation. This form of metadata can index a museum’s collection but cannot express the relations between heritage objects and related concepts found in contemporary museum exhibitions. A modern museum exhibition, rather than providing a taxonomic classification of heritage objects, uses them in the construction of curatorial narratives to be interpreted by an audience. In this paper we outline how curatorial narratives can be represented semantically using our Curate Ontology. The Curate Ontology, informed by a detailed analysis of two museum exhibitions, draws on structuralist theories that distinguish between story (i.e. what can be told), plot (i.e. an interpretation of the story) and narrative (i.e. its presentational form). This work has implications for how events can be used in the description of museum narratives and their associated heritage objects.
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Conference Item
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| Copyright Holders: |
2011 for the individual papers by the papers' authors |
| Funders: |
DECIPHER project (270001), funded by the EU 7th Framework Programme in the area of Digital Libraries and Digital Preservation |
| Keywords: |
cultural heritage; curation; story; plot; narrative; event; ontology |
| Academic Unit/Department: |
Knowledge Media Institute |
| Interdisciplinary Research Centre: |
Centre for Research in Computing (CRC) |
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| Item ID: |
30058 |
| Depositing User: |
Kay Dave
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| Date Deposited: |
29 Nov 2011 16:27 |
| Last Modified: |
26 Oct 2012 23:02 |
| URI: |
http://oro.open.ac.uk/id/eprint/30058 |
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