Amalgame (AMsterdam ALignment GenerAtion MEtatool) is a tool for finding, evaluating and managing vocabulary alignments. We explicitly do not aim to produce 'yet another alignment method' but rather seek to combine existing matching techniques. Our goal is to support data providers, such as cultural heritage institutes, with the alignment of their own vocabularies.
The PrestoPrime team of the VU advised in the development of a tagging game for video material. Partners are The Dutch Institute for Sound & Vision, web development company Q42 and Dutch broadcaster KRO.
Together with the MultimediaN E-Culture team I developed a research prototype of a semantic search engine for Europeana. Including collections from Rijksmuseum Amsterdam, Louvre and the Netherlands Institute for Art History.
Comparing artwork collections is an important task for cultural heritage experts, but is not well supported by collection management systems.
Together with Alia Amin I developed a tool to select and visualise collections of artworks.
For the archival of cultural heritage there is a demand to include external vocabularies into the annotation process, as the scope in-house vocabularies is often too limited.
Together with cataloguers from the Rijksmuseum and Jacco van Ossenbruggen I investigated the requirements on a tool for professional artwork annotation that includes multiple external vocabularies.
By linking the collections and vocabularies from multiple museums together the E-Culture project constructed a graph of cultural heritage data.
Within the MultimediaN E-Culture team I investigated how keyword search can be applied to this heterogeneous graph to find artworks that are semantically related artworks to a keyword query?
Autocompletion can help user with quickly finding terms from a data source. To effectively support autocompletion on large sources the algorithm and result presentation should be optimised for the specific task.
Together with Alia Amin and Jacco van Ossenbruggen I investigated the design space of autocompletion and methods to support configuration of autocompletion widgets for RDF.
Faceted browsing is a popular interface paradigm to browse collections, but traditional approaches require a fixed schema of the data.
Together with Jacco van Ossenbruggen I investigated how faceted browsing be applied to heterogeneous RDF repositories without a fixed schema?