The purpose of association discovery tools is to systematically explore semantic knowledge bases in search for relevant connections among a set of selected concepts, which may relate to cultural heritage assets, user preferences, trending topics on the media, or any dimensions of context (location, date, weather, etc.). The goal is to identify, out of the billions of semantic paths that may connect any set of concepts in sizable knowledge bases like Europeana, DBpedia and/or the private databases of cultural institutions around the world, only the paths that are worth presenting to users who are searching for cultural contents of their interest, or to Humanities experts who seek to develop narratives for cultural experiences, purposeful itineraries in a venue or around a city, thematic catalogues, documentation/educational projects, etc. It is foreseen that any cultural venue or tourism promotion organizations will be interested in getting an open, evolving set of outputs, rather than a reduced set that could be delivered once and for all.
Addressing target audiences and expressing needs
- Grants and Subsidies
- Collaboration
- Fellowship to advance my/our research
- Other type of Investment
A collaborative project to conduct further research, aiming to render market-ready association discovery services in 2 years.
- Public or private funding institutions
- Academia/ Universities
- Private Investors
R&D, Technology and Innovation aspects
There are demonstrators for the association discovery logic, bundled in tools for cultural heritage experts to interrelate multiple heritage items or collections, and to relate any of those to specific dates (which may be harnessed to trigger curiosity in relation to historical events or news.
