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Towards a Semantics-Based Recommendation System for Cultural Heritage Collections

Li, Jiayu; Bikakis, Antonis; (2023) Towards a Semantics-Based Recommendation System for Cultural Heritage Collections. Applied Sciences , 13 (15) , Article 8907. 10.3390/app13158907. Green open access

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Abstract

While the use of semantic technologies is now commonplace in the cultural heritage sector and several semantically annotated cultural heritage datasets are publicly available, there are few examples of cultural portals that exploit these datasets and technologies to improve the experience of visitors to their online collections. Aiming to address this gap, this paper explores methods for semantics-based recommendations aimed at visitors to cultural portals who want to explore online collections. The proposed methods exploit the rich semantic metadata in a cultural heritage dataset and the capabilities of a graph database system to improve the accuracy of searches through the collection and the quality of the recommendations provided to the user. The methods were developed and tested with the Archive of the Art Textbooks of Elementary and Public Schools in the Japanese Colonial Period. However, they can easily be adapted to any cultural heritage collection dataset modelled in RDF.

Type: Article
Title: Towards a Semantics-Based Recommendation System for Cultural Heritage Collections
Open access status: An open access version is available from UCL Discovery
DOI: 10.3390/app13158907
Publisher version: https://doi.org/10.3390/app13158907
Language: English
Additional information: © 2023 by the authors. Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland. This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) license (https:// creativecommons.org/licenses/by/ 4.0/).
Keywords: Semantic technologies; recommendation systems; graph databases; digital cultural heritage
UCL classification: UCL
UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL SLASH
UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL SLASH > Faculty of Arts and Humanities
UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL SLASH > Faculty of Arts and Humanities > Dept of Information Studies
URI: https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10174759
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