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Slides Presented at First User Interview Session

Here is an overview presentation (in Dutch) of the Agora project so far and our future plans. Agora User Interviews View more presentations from MvanErp.

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MW2012 Presentation online

The slides of our Museums and the Web 2012 paper ‘Sharing Cultural Heritage the Linked Open Data Way: Why you should sign up‘ can be found here: Sharing cultural heritage the linked open data way: why you should sign up … Continue reading

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Reusing Linguistic Resources Presentation at LDL2012

Today Marieke presented “Reusing Linguistic Resources: Tasks and Goals for a Linked Data Approach” at the Linked Data in Linguistics workshop at DGfS in Frankfurt, Germany. Below you find the presentation, a trip report will follow shortly. Ldl2012 View more … Continue reading

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Ardjan van Nuland Thesis Proposal Presentation

View more presentations from Agora Project This presentation is part of a series of student presentations on their MSc thesis design. This is part of the joint VU and UvA Information Systems MSc program.

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Sahar Mojtahedi: MSc Thesis Proposal Presentation

View more presentations from Agora Project This presentation is part of a series of student presentations on their MSc thesis design. This is part of the joint VU and UvA Information Systems MSc program.

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Slides EVENTS2010

We were very excited to present the goals and challenges of the Agora project and discuss the current work in progress at the EVENTS 2010 workshop. Unfortunately, we could not make it to the event, but we have the slides here … Continue reading

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Eventing History @ WebSci2010

There is a vast amount of (implicit) historical knowledge locked in museum collections. Objects from one museum collection often only tell part of the story from one only perspective, limited to one collection.
Through combining objects from different collections, a more comprehensive view of a certain historical period can be given. Agora is a multidisciplinary project serving both the needs of experts and the general public in a online social platform, where they can create and explore different (personal) narratives and contribute or interact with digitally mediated public histories. For this we aim at achieving event-driven access to heterogeneous cultural heritage collections by extracting historic events from various textual data, creating an ontology of historic concepts and use an event model to interlink collection objects along the event dimensions, ‘who’, ‘what’, ‘where’ and ‘when’. Continue reading

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