Serbia-Forum

Serbia-Forum
An Overview and Innovative Perspectives
Aleksandar Mihajlović
Vladisav Jelisavčić
Bojan Marinković
Zoran Ognjanović
Veljko Milutinović
Hermann Maurer
Mathematical Institute
of the Serbian Academy of Arts and Sciences
Knez Mihailova 36,
11000 Belgrade, Serbia
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What is Serbia-Forum?
• Two characteristics
– Credible encyclopedic articles,
written by credible authors
(similar to the already present e-encyclopedias)
– Digitalization of cultural and national heritage
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Books
Archived documents
Images of culturally significant Serbian works of Art
3D scanning of culturally significant places
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Churches
Monasteries
Museums
Homes of famous Serbians
• Etc
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Motivation:
Why Serbia-Forum?
• Research
– Semantic searching
• Improved semantic text and novel image searching
• Presence
– Credible source of information
about cultural heritage of Serbia
– Free, centralized, and easily accessible
• Preservation
– Prolong the life of articles of cultural heritage
for the generations to come
– Backup of historically and culturally significant documents
• Natural disasters
• War
• Examples on the next slide
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Motivation for Digitization
• Why is “Preservation” a top priority?
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What is Serbia-Forum?
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What is Serbia-Forum?
• Based on the Austria Forum model
• Developed by Professor Dr. Hermann Maurer
at the TU Graz in Austria
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Austria-Forum:
Key Goals
(1) Information must be semantically searchable,
by metadata (both, in Forum, and via Google).
• We are searching for someone
whose name we don‘t know,
but we know he was born in Vienna (Wien),
was working in physics (Physik),
and died in Italy (Italien).
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What is Austria-Forum?
Key Goals
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Austria-Forum:
Key Goals
(2) Author Visibility:
The source of the text must be always known!
– Either the name of the author including CV,
or the book/archive it comes from!
(3) Evolution Tracking
– Updating is dangerous:
– It destroys previous information and hence history.
• When, e.g. an old building is „updated“ (renovated),
one cannot experience what it was like before.
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Austria-Forum:
Key Goals
(4) Books are not just a source of information!
– Web books behave like printed books
but also offer some new functions:
links, bookmarks, …
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What is Serbia-Forum?
Fori in the works:
(1) Academia Europaea, fully operational!
(2) Germany
(3) Holland
(4) England
(5) Portugal
(6) Italy
(7) Spain
(8) Slovenia
(9) Serbia
(10) Montenegro, maybe
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Serbia-Forum: Axioms
• Axioms holding Serbia-Forum together
–Secondary
–Primary
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Serbia-Forum: Axioms
• Axioms holding Serbia-Forum together
– Secondary axioms (implementable by other projects):
1) Semantic search
2) Version tracking
of every document
3) Author visibility,
Information about the author
of each document is supplied
i.e. biography.
4) Original commodities
related to books
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Serbia-Forum: Axioms
• Axioms holding Serbia-Forum together
– Primary axioms (fixed to the serbia-forum project):
1) Content is selected and controlled
by government funded and owned
cultural and academic institutions
2) Each document can be copy protected
by a different license (not only CC)
3) Quality NOT quantity
4) Possible semantic culture-oriented translation
into a number of relevant foreign languages
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Progress Report - Partners
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Progress Report - Resources
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Progress Report - Digitalization
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Progress Report – Content
• Currently the most active content contributor
to Serbia Forum is the National Library of Serbia
(NBS)
• Over 2 million pages of scanned content donated
• Restructuring of the national library web site
in progress by the Serbia Forum team
• National Archive of Serbia
• Volumes of census documents
from the last two centuries
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In Progress – Web App
<input> ABC….
</input>
Serbia-forum pages
JSP Wiki
user
Serbiaforum
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In Progress – Meta Data
and Semantic Searching
• Development of a new NCD metadata standard
that will be used for Serbia Forum
and all other upcoming fori
• This will be performed in accordance
to an XML data base
that will be appended to the original model
of the Austria-Forum web application
• Development of new and dynamic
semantic searching and indexing algorithms
(detailed discussion in upcoming journal papers).
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In Progress – Meta Data
and Semantic Searching
• Semantic indexing of content (1/2)
– Smart text content searching (Austria-Forum)
• Broad search queries lead to specific results
Nikola Tesla
1850 – 1860
Austro-Hungary
New York, 1943
Born 1856 in
Austro-Hungary
Died in New York
City in 1943
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In Progress – Meta Data
and Semantic Searching
• Semantic indexing of content (2/2)
– Smart image content searching
(Goal of Serbia-Forum)
• Correlating an image to similar images
General Pavle
Jurišić Sturm
Marshall Josip
Broz Tito
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Other Goals
• Reaching national minorities in Serbia
and unveiling their cultural heritage
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Jewish
Islamic Bosniaks
Vojvodina Hungarians
Albanians in the Preševo valley
Etc.
• Disseminating the forum model
throughout the Balkan region
– Allowing better future integration
of heritage content into the European family
of heritage content,
the Europeana
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