Digitization is helping galleries, libraries, archives, and museums provide more information about every artifact in their collections. Digital artifacts, and written records of things, places, and people, however, need to evolve into high-quality machine-readable data if it is to fulfill, the need to know more about the world of cultural heritage. Knowledge graphs can help bridge this gap.
Digitization is helping galleries, libraries, archives, and museums provide more information about every artifact in their collections. Digital artifacts, and written records of things, places, and people, however, need to evolve into high-quality machine-readable data if it is to fulfill, the need to know more about the world of cultural heritage. Knowledge graphs can help bridge this gap.
Digital collections, undoubtedly, add to the diversity of the cultural heritage available in the cyberspace. What is lacking though is the context. If these digital collections are enriched with context, it would improve their visibility and simplify navigation.
Knowledge graphs can provide context, by enabling the interlinking of digital artifacts, and enriching them with semantic data, thereby making the digital collections more meaningful. Knowledge graphs also help in adding more facts and figures and the metadata related to the digital collections. This would ensure that each artifact, written record of things, places, and people will have well-described semantic information, and linked to other artifacts, events, people, and institutions. A digital collection, rich in connections is created as a result.
Consequently, as more and more galleries, libraries, archives, and museums use knowledge graphs to interlink and present more and more digital collections as datasets, viewers will be able to see a much richer and holistic picture that is relevant to their interest.
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