| abstract: |
The general objective of the SMARTMUSEUM project is to develop a platform for innovative IT services enhancing on-site personalised access to digital content of cultural heritage through adaptive and privacy preserving user profiling. Using on-site distributed knowledge databases, global digital libraries, and visitors’ experiential knowledge the platform makes possible creation of innovative multilingual IT services for increasing interaction between visitors and cultural heritage objects in future smart museum environment, and taking full benefit of the digitalized cultural information.
SMARTMUSEUM project supports achievement of following general goals:
* Lowering costs of on-site access to digital cultural heritage content
* Improving structured, user behaviour and preference dependent on-site access to cultural heritage
* Improving the meaning, individual and shared experiences people receive from cultural and scientific resources
* Bringing personalized cultural experience closer to non-expert community
* Making real reuse of personal experiences related with cultural heritage access for variety of interest groups
In order for developing SMARTMUSEUM platform following sub-goals are set:
* Developing cultural heritage (CH) related metadata extensions to represent user preferences
* Creating internal standard for representing user cultural interest preferences in a form of formal profile.
* Creating privacy preserving adaptive user profile management for PDAs and web services
* Creating of services (dedicated search engine) capable of digital content mining and indexing for variety of user profiles.
*Creating easy search solutions for local and global reuse of cultural heritage related knowledge (such as information and experiences)
* Creating of ontology based global web services (dedicated search engine) capable of digital content data mining and indexing for variety of user profiles.
Test-bed for the platform are two museums. |
