Information Technology for the Virtual Museum

Download or read book Information Technology for the Virtual Museum written by Klaus Robering and published by LIT Verlag Münster. This book was released on 2008 with total page 230 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This present collection deals with the application of modern information technology, especially semantic web technologies, to the problems of representing cultural content in real and virtual museums. The Semantic Web is the attempt to make the World Wide Web's enormous mass of information more accessible to humans by using forms of representation which are semantically transparent and therefore 'understandable' to machines assisting human users when they access the web. The fascinating perspectives for museology which result from the new semantic techniques are dealt with in the present book.