Title
Exploring the information space of cultural collections using formal concept analysis
Document Type
Journal Article
RIS ID
44870
Publication Date
January 2011
Abstract
Within the cultural informatics community, there is a strongdesire to mine and understand relationships within and among collectionsof objects. In this paper we describe a case study of applied FormalConcept Analysis to cultural heritage and art collections. We base ourinter-disciplinary research on our development of a navigation frameworkthat drives the Virtual Museum of the Pacific ÿ an FCA-based applicationthat employs a conceptual neighbourhood paradigm for browsingconcept lattices. We also utilise a feature called conceptual similaritythat allows users to search for similar objects and hence promote knowledgediscovery of the objects within the collection. We describe howwe can construct a meaningful information space derived from museumdocumentation while considering complexity and associated performanceissues of large formal contexts. We report the resulting lattice structure,user experience and relevance of our FCA-based application in browsingand exploring objects from a cultural domain. Our research is an appliedcase study of term extraction and context creation based on data-setsfrom the Australian Museum and Powerhouse Museum collections.
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Publication Details
Wray, T. & Eklund, P. (2011). Exploring the information space of cultural collections using formal concept analysis. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, 6628 (N/A), 251-266.