scholarly journals Empowering Museum Experiences Applying Gamification Techniques Based on Linked Data and Smart Objects

2020 ◽  
Vol 10 (16) ◽  
pp. 5419
Author(s):  
Alejandro López-Martínez ◽  
Álvaro Carrera ◽  
Carlos A. Iglesias
Keyword(s):  
Internet Of Things ◽  
Cultural Heritage ◽  
Linked Data ◽  
Real Life ◽  
Smart Objects ◽  
Semantic Web Technologies ◽  
Smart Object ◽  
Web Technologies ◽  
Interactive Question ◽  
Advanced Interaction

Museums play a crucial role in preserving cultural heritage. However, the forms in which they display cultural heritage might not be the most effective at piquing visitors’ interest. Therefore, museums tend to integrate different technologies that aim to create engaging and memorable experiences. In this context, the emerging Internet of Things (IoT) technology results particularly promising due to the possibility of implementing smart objects in museums, granting exhibits advanced interaction capabilities. Gamification techniques are also a powerful technique to draw visitors’ attention. These often rely on interactive question-based games. A drawback of such games is that questions must be periodically regenerated, and this is a time-consuming task. To confront these challenges, this paper proposes a low-maintenance gamified smart object platform that automates the creation of questions by exploiting semantic web technologies. The platform has been implemented in a real-life scenario. The results obtained encourage the use of the platform in the museum considered. Therefore, it appears to be a promising work that could be extrapolated and adapted to other kinds of museums or cultural heritage institutions.

scholarly journals Editorial: Special issue on Semantic Web for Cultural Heritage

Semantic Web ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 12 (2) ◽  
pp. 163-167
Author(s):  
Antonis Bikakis ◽  
Eero Hyvönen ◽  
Stéphane Jean ◽  
Béatrice Markhoff ◽  
Alessandro Mosca
Keyword(s):  
Semantic Web ◽  
Cultural Heritage ◽  
Linked Data ◽  
Wide Spectrum ◽  
Special Issue ◽  
Semantic Web Technologies ◽  
Web Technologies ◽  
Editorial Special Issue ◽  
Major Application ◽  
Application Fields

Cultural Heritage and Digital Humanities have become major application fields of Linked Data and Semantic Web technologies. This editorial introduces the special issue of the Semantic Web (SWJ) journal on Semantic Web for Cultural Heritage. In total 30 submissions for the call of papers were received, of which 11 were selected for publication. The papers cover a wide spectrum of modelled topics related to language, reading and writing, narratives, historical events and cultural artefacts, while describing reusable methodologies and tools for cultural data management. This issue indicates and demonstrates the high potential of Semantic Web technologies for applications in the Cultural Heritage domain.

How Industry 4.0 Can Benefit From Semantic Web Technologies and Artefacts

2021 ◽  
Vol 13 (4) ◽  
pp. 64-74
Author(s):  
Leila Zemmouchi-Ghomari
Keyword(s):  
Cloud Computing ◽  
Internet Of Things ◽  
Semantic Web ◽  
Industry 4.0 ◽  
The Internet ◽  
Time Data ◽  
Semantic Web Technologies ◽  
Web Technologies ◽  
Real Time Data ◽  
The Internet Of Things

Industry 4.0 is a technology-driven manufacturing process that heavily relies on technologies, such as the internet of things (IoT), cloud computing, web services, and big real-time data. Industry 4.0 has significant potential if the challenges currently being faced by introducing these technologies are effectively addressed. Some of these challenges consist of deficiencies in terms of interoperability and standardization. Semantic Web technologies can provide useful solutions for several problems in this new industrial era, such as systems integration and consistency checks of data processing and equipment assemblies and connections. This paper discusses what contribution the Semantic Web can make to Industry 4.0.

Enabling the Matchmaking of Organizations and Public Procurement Notices by Means of Linked Open Data

2013 ◽  
pp. 105-131 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jose María Alvarez Rodríguez ◽  
José Emilio Labra Gayo ◽  
Patricia Ordoñez de Pablos
Keyword(s):  
Semantic Web ◽  
Linked Data ◽  
Public Procurement ◽  
Open Data ◽  
Specific Information ◽  
Semantic Web Technologies ◽  
Web Technologies ◽  
Domain Specific ◽  
The Status ◽  
Financial Transactions

The aim of this chapter is to present a proposal and a case study to describe the information about organizations in a standard way using the Linked Data approach. Several models and ontologies have been provided in order to formalize the data, structure and behaviour of organizations. Nevertheless, these tries have not been fully accepted due to some factors: (1) missing pieces to define the status of the organization; (2) tangled parts to specify the structure (concepts and relations) between the elements of the organization; 3) lack of text properties, and other factors. These divergences imply a set of incomplete approaches to formalize data and information about organizations. Taking into account the current trends of applying semantic web technologies and linked data to formalize, aggregate, and share domain specific information, a new model for organizations taking advantage of these initiatives is required in order to overcome existing barriers and exploit the corporate information in a standard way. This work is especially relevant in some senses to: (1) unify existing models to provide a common specification; (2) apply semantic web technologies and the Linked Data approach; (3) provide access to the information via standard protocols, and (4) offer new services that can exploit this information to trace the evolution and behaviour of the organization over time. Finally, this work is interesting to improve the clarity and transparency of some scenarios in which organizations play a key role, like e-procurement, e-health, or financial transactions.

Web Data Quality

2014 ◽  
Vol 10 (2) ◽  
pp. 1-6 ◽  
Author(s):  
Amrapali Zaveri ◽  
Andrea Maurino ◽  
Laure-Berti Equille
Keyword(s):  
Semantic Web ◽  
Data Quality ◽  
Linked Data ◽  
Web Data ◽  
Semantic Web Technologies ◽  
Future Directions ◽  
Web Technologies ◽  
Current State ◽  
Web Of Data ◽  
The Web

The standardization and adoption of Semantic Web technologies has resulted in an unprecedented volume of data being published as Linked Data (LD). However, the “publish first, refine later” philosophy leads to various quality problems arising in the underlying data such as incompleteness, inconsistency and semantic ambiguities. In this article, we describe the current state of Data Quality in the Web of Data along with details of the three papers accepted for the International Journal on Semantic Web and Information Systems' (IJSWIS) Special Issue on Web Data Quality. Additionally, we identify new challenges that are specific to the Web of Data and provide insights into the current progress and future directions for each of those challenges.

Linked Data as Integrating Technology for Industrial Data

2012 ◽  
Vol 3 (3) ◽  
pp. 40-52 ◽  
Author(s):  
Markus Graube ◽  
Johannes Pfeffer ◽  
Jens Ziegler ◽  
Leon Urbas
Keyword(s):  
Linked Data ◽  
Small And Medium Enterprises ◽  
Collaborative Work ◽  
Semantic Web Technologies ◽  
Industrial Data ◽  
Distributed Information ◽  
Web Technologies ◽  
Share Data ◽  
First Results ◽  
Medium Enterprises

In a globalised world the process industry faces challenges regarding data management. Rising demands for agility and rapid shortening of innovation cycles have lead to project-based collaborations. Highly specialised small and medium enterprises are forming “virtual companies” for their mutual benefit. However, today’s industrial data structures are very heterogeneous, complicating collaborative work and hindering the flow of data between stakeholders from different domains. Existing solutions are too rigid and potentially cumbersome. A broad gap still exists between the need of virtual companies to share data from mixed sources in a controlled way and the technologies available. The authors’ approach uses semantic web technologies to represent industrial data in a generic way. Major advantages in comparison to traditional approaches arise from the inherent merging abilities and the extensibility of Linked Data. Distributed information spaces from different domains can be condensed into an interlinked cloud. Existing data can be integrated either on-the-fly using appropriate adapters or by complete migration. Furthermore, operations from graph theory can be performed on the Linked Data networks to generate aggregated views. This article discusses a set of proven web technologies for cloud-driven industrial data sharing in virtual companies and presents first results.

Extraction, analysis and publication of bibliographical references within an institutional repository

2016 ◽  
Vol 34 (2) ◽  
pp. 259-267 ◽  
Author(s):  
Götz Hatop
Keyword(s):  
Semantic Web ◽  
Citation Analysis ◽  
Open Source Software ◽  
Linked Data ◽  
Software Components ◽  
Institutional Repository ◽  
Semantic Web Technologies ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Web Technologies ◽  
Reference Information

Purpose – The academic tradition of adding a reference section with references to cited and otherwise related academic material to an article provides a natural starting point for finding links to other publications. These links can then be published as linked data. Natural language processing technologies are available today that can perform the task of bibliographical reference extraction from text. Publishing references by the means of semantic web technologies is a prerequisite for a broader study and analysis of citations and thus can help to improve academic communication in a general sense. The paper aims to discuss these issues. Design/methodology/approach – This paper examines the overall workflow required to extract, analyze and semantically publish bibliographical references within an Institutional Repository with the help of open source software components. Findings – A publication infrastructure where references are available for software agents would enable additional benefits like citation analysis, e.g. the collection of citations of a known paper and the investigation of citation sentiment.The publication of reference information as demonstrated in this article is possible with existing semantic web technologies based on established ontologies and open source software components. Research limitations/implications – Only a limited number of metadata extraction programs have been considered for performance evaluation and reference extraction was tested for journal articles only, whereas Institutional Repositories usually do contain a large number of other material like monographs. Also, citation analysis is in an experimental state and citation sentiment is currently not published at all. For future work, the problem of distributing reference information between repositories is an important problem that needs to be tackled. Originality/value – Publishing reference information as linked data are new within the academic publishing domain.

Semantic Middleware Architecture

2013 ◽  
Vol 436 ◽  
pp. 488-496 ◽  
Author(s):  
Dragos Repta ◽  
Ioan Stefan Sacala ◽  
Mihnea Moisescu ◽  
Aurelian Mihai Stanescu
Keyword(s):  
Distributed Systems ◽  
Internet Of Things ◽  
Test System ◽  
Context Aware ◽  
Semantic Technologies ◽  
Research Activity ◽  
Semantic Web Technologies ◽  
Web Technologies ◽  
It Systems ◽  
Event Based

Some of the most important features of future IT systems will come from the current research of Semantic Web technologies and distributed systems. Following this idea we set out to implement a middleware solution that builds upon the latest developments of research activity into Internet of Things and, more generally, context-aware systems. These directions where selected because they currently are the main drivers of the research into the applications of semantic technologies. Our focus was mainly on the aspects that we considered to be overlooked by other proposed semantic middleware solutions, such as the support of asynchronous, event based communication and ontology management in distributed systems. The developed middleware was used to build a test system in order to prove its advantages over similar systems that rely on currently used technologies.

scholarly journals DISPONIBILIZAÇÃO DE METADADOS EM LINKED DATA PARA REPOSITÓRIOS DIGITAIS

2019 ◽  
Vol 22 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Felipe Augusto Arakaki ◽  
Caio Saraiva Coneglian ◽  
Plácida Leopoldina Ventura Amorim da Costa Santos ◽  
José Eduardo Santarem Segundo
Keyword(s):  
Semantic Web ◽  
Linked Data ◽  
Scientific Production ◽  
Data Availability ◽  
Exploratory Research ◽  
Digital Information ◽  
Digital Repository ◽  
Semantic Web Technologies ◽  
Digital Repositories ◽  
Web Technologies

Considerando la expansión de la producción científica en ambientes informacionales digitales y las nuevas formas de disponibilización de datos siguiendo los principios Linked Data, se objetivó discutir posibilidades de relacionamiento de datasets y enriquecimiento semántico de metadatos en repositorios digitales. Adicionalmente, presentar un modelo de conversión de registros en RDF. Es una investigación teórica y exploratoria, que realizó una revisión bibliográfica sobre repositorios digitales y Linked Data. Se demostraron posibilidades del proceso de conversión, con la identificación de bases de datos, vocabularios y estándares que deben ser adoptados para que los datos generados sean enriquecidos semánticamente. El trabajo presenta un modelo que refleja los pasos a ser aplicados durante el proceso de disponibilización de metadatos de un repositorio digital en Linked Data. Se concluye que la integración entre repositorios digitales y las tecnologías de la Web Semántica permite la disponibilización de datos en Linked Data, la cual proporciona nuevos medios para la divulgación y la integración de los recursos en la Web. Considering the expansion of scientific production in digital information environments and the new forms of data availability following the principles of Linked Data, the objective is to discuss possibilities of relationships of datasets and semantic enrichment of metadata in digital repositories and present a model of conversion of records in RDF. It is a theoretical and exploratory research, performing a bibliographic review on digital repositories and Linked Data. In this way, we have demonstrated possibilities of the conversion process, identifying databases, vocabularies and standards that must be adopted so that the generated data is enriched semantically. The work presented a model that reflects the steps that must be taken in the process of making available the metadata of a digital repository in Linked Data. It is concluded that the integration between digital repositories and Semantic Web technologies allows the availability of data in Linked Data, which provides new means for the dissemination and integration of resources on Web.

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