Abstract
Abstract. In this article a use case is presented how a semantic network can be used to enrich the existing virtual exhibition “They Shared their Destiny. Women and the Cossacks’ Tragedy in Lienz 1945” about the fate of women during the Cossack tragedy in Lienz. By connecting via CIDOC CRM information about people, events, finds and places the goal was not only to make this information interoperable, but also to integrate the resulting knowledge graph into the exhibition, thus providing a further navigation level and enhancing the visitors’ experience.First, a short introduction to the existing exhibition and the presented project is given. In the second part, the scientific background of CIDOC CRM and its semantically enriched 3D content is outlined. In the third part the implementation and the project as a use case is described with respect to the data modelling and the integration of the semantic network into the 3-dimensional environment as well as the integration of spatial aspects and other internet resources. At the end, there is a summary with an outlook on future planned projects.
Highlights
After an eventful history, in June 1945 in Lienz about 22,500 Cossacks were handed over to the Soviet Union by the British Administration, contrary to previous agreements
As shown the problems of linking semantically enriched data with 3D models and their subsequent scientific use have been discussed in various articles for a while
The virtual exhibition and the historic reality are both modelled with Comité International pour la Documentation" (CIDOC) Concept Reference Model (CRM) classes and properties
Summary
In June 1945 in Lienz about 22,500 Cossacks (including about 3,500 women and children) were handed over to the Soviet Union by the British Administration, contrary to previous agreements. Blender (Blender Foundation 2019) was used to reconstruct the exhibition room, including the posters on display and the artifacts exhibited in the showcases From this room, nine scenes from different viewpoints were exported as 360° images. Visitors of the virtual exhibition are able to see the room at predefined viewpoints in 360°, to enlarge the posters, to look at the finds and to obtain further information on some aspects through external links. This virtual exhibition can be visited in the desired language (English, German, Italian, Russian) at https://www.kosaken-lienz1945.com/virtuelle-ausstellung--63364468-de.html (Figure 1) (for detailed description for technical implementation see Danthine et al in review). The small follow-up project “Virtual Exhibition in All Dimensions”, which is based on the data from this exhibition, has three main goals: a) to collect more information about people, artifacts, places and events, and link them into a semantic network; b) to integrate this network into the 3-dimensional environment and c) to increase the amount of information provided, the story-telling possibilities and the navigation options for visitors
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