A Knowledge Portal for Cultural Information Resources: Towards an Architecture

The paper presents a concept and architecture of specialized Internet portal providing semantic access to knowledge and information resources (electronic collections) for any given kind of culture. The information basis of such a portal is an ontology that supports integration of information resources relevant to the subject domain of a portal into a uniform information space and provides content-based (semantic) access to these resources. The portal is adaptable to meet the needs of a variety of users: it provides multilingual access and supports a user's profile with personal preferences and areas of interests. The portal supports formulation of queries in terms of the chosen subject domain and ontology-driven navigation through the information space of the portal. Extension of the information space is realized by both experts and specialized subsystem searching for and automatically indexing relevant resources.

• Type: Conference
• Year: 2006
• Where: ERSHOV
• Authors: Yury A. Zagorulko, Jawed I. A. Siddiqi, Babak Akhgar, Olesya Borovikova
• Keywords: ERSHOV 2006, Information Resources, Information Space, Subject Domain, Theoretical Computer Science