PoolParty, a sponsor of SemTech London 2011, recently interviewed Dominic Oldman, the deputy head of the information systems department at the British Museum: “PoolParty Team had the chance to talk with Dominic about the importance of semantic technologies and thesauri (SKOS) in the cultural heritage sector and the plans of the British Museum to integrate these technologies into their information systems.”

When asked about the purpose of the British Museum’s thesaurus project, Oldman responded, “The British Museum already uses thesauri as part of its collection record system. They include: object type (e.g. pin, cup), material (e.g. paper, stone), technique of manufacture (e.g. carved, incised)… Read more

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Executive Summary

SeMuSe is an open and collaborative community based project to work on a Semantic Museum vision, and provides a forum for discussion of the future of applied cultural and natural heritage data management. Members of SeMuSe can greatly benefit from advancements made in the Semantic Technology community. The goal of SeMuSe is to help organizations and practitioners to introduce Semantic Technologies and concepts to cultural and natural heritage data management efforts and to capitalize on the results of more than a decade of Semantic Technology research. Emerging technology standards like RDF, RDFS and OWL and domain specific vocabularies such as museumdat and the CIDOC CRM ontology specification are a marriage made in Semantic Technology heaven, allowing to lead semantic cultural and natural heritage data management to its full potential – SeMuSe.

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