CHIP Demonstrator: Semantics-Driven Recommendations and Museum Tour Generation

摘要

The main objective of the CHIP project is to demonstrate how Semantic Web technologies can be deployed to provide personalized access to digital museum collections. We illustrate our approach with the digital database ARIA of the Rijksmuseum Amsterdam. For the semantic enrichment of the Rijksmuseum ARIA database we collaborated with the CATCH STITCH project to produce mappings to Iconclass, and with the MultimediaN E-culture project to produce the RDF/OWL of the ARIA and Adlib databases. The main focus of CHIP is on exploring the potential of applying adaptation techniques to provide personalized experience for the museum visitors both on the Web site and in the museum. This resulted in three demonstrator components: 1. Artwork Recommender - a Web-based rating dialog to build a user profile, based on semantics-driven recommendations. 2. Tour Wizard - a Web-based tool using the user profile to generate automatically personalizated museum tours for each user, and to (semi)-automatically generate various personalized routes through the digital Rijksmuseum collection. 3. Mobile Tour - a PDA-based tool, which uses the results from the Tour Wizard and helps users navigate and discover artworks in the physical Rijksmuseum environment. The online version of the CHIP demonstrator as well as a tutorial with a brief walk-through of the personalization functionality can be found at. Further, we give a short introduction to the basic functionality of the Web-based parts of the CHIP demosntrator. Please note that the CHIP project collects feedback, on the functionality and usability of the demonstrator, on a regular basis from studies with museum visitors. Thus, the demonstrator changes over time as we are incorporating more functionalities and improvements to the interface.