Abstract
Preserving the cultural and historical heritage of various world nations, and their thorough presentation is a long-term commitment of scholars and researchers working in many areas. From centuries every generation is aimed at keeping record about its labor, so that it could be revised and studied by the next generations. New information and multimedia technologies have been developed during the past couple of years, which introduced new methods of preservation, maintenance and distribution of the huge amounts of collected material. This article aims to present the virtual museum, an advanced system managing diverse collections of digital objects that are organized in various ways by a complex specialized functionality. The management of digital content requires a well-designed architecture that embeds services for content presentation, management, and administration. All elements of the system architecture are interrelated, thus the accuracy of each element is of great importance. These systems suffer from the lack of tools for intelligent data curation with the capacity to validate data from different sources and to add value to data. This paper proposes a solution for intelligent data curation that can be implemented in a virtual museum in order to provide opportunity to observe the valuable historical specimens in a proper way. The solution is focused on the process of validation and verification to prevent the duplication of records for digital objects, in order to guarantee the integrity of data and more accurate retrieval of knowledge.
Highlights
Cultural heritage has been maintained in museums, galleries, libraries and research laboratories, where not everyone was able to access this wealth
Digital technologies that have been developed during the past couple of years introduced new solutions of documentation, maintenance and distribution of the huge amounts of collected material. Among these new technologies are virtual museums, which have already proven their worth as a contemporary conceptual solution for access to and attractive presentation of cultural archives
Virtual museums contain diverse collections of digital objects that are organized in various ways and are managed by complex specialized services such as content structuring and grouping, attractive visualization, advanced search, resources and collection management, indexing, semantic description, knowledge retrieval, metadata management, personalization and content adaptability, content protection and preservation, tracking services, etc
Summary
Cultural heritage has been maintained in museums, galleries, libraries and research laboratories, where not everyone was able to access this wealth. The design and the implementation of the described services result from a long-term observation of the users’ preferences, cognitive goals, needs, object observation style, and interests, made during the testing processes in several digital content management systems. This approach has changed the main assumption of most solutions for schema mapping that the suggestions curated by users should be part of a manual process In such a case the main encountered challenges are: (1) providing of automated solution that requires reasonable interaction with the user, being able to map numerous schemas; and (2) designing of matching algorithms that are robust enough to accommodate different languages, formats, reference master data, and data units and granularity [13]. More robust algorithms should be utilized to find such matches in the presence of errors, different styles of presentation and mismatches of granularity and references of time
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