The main objective of the MultimediaN E-Culture project is to demonstrate how novel semantic-web and presentation technologies can be deployed to provide better indexing and search support within large virtual collections of cultural-heritage resources. The architecture is fully based on open web standards, in particular XML, SVG, RDF/OWL and SPARQL. One basic hypothesis underlying this work is that the use of explicit background knowledge in the form of ontologies/vocabularies/thesauri is in particular useful in information retrieval in knowledge-rich domains.

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Schreiber, G., Amin, A., van Assem, M., de Boer, V., Hardman, L., Hildebrand, M., … Wielinga, B. (2006). MultimediaN E-Culture demonstrator. In Lecture Notes in Computer Science (pp. 951–958). Springer.