Deliverable D4.3 Demonstrator for Final Web Services Workpackage Wp4 – Web Services for Digital Content Access and Existing Content Profiling

SMARTMUSEUM (Cultural Heritage Knowledge Exchange Platform) is a Research and Development project sponsored under the Europeans Commission’s 7th Framework. The overall objective of the project is to develop a platform for innovative services enhancing on-site personalized access to digital cultural heritage through adaptive and privacy preserving user profiling. Using on-site knowledge databases, global digital libraries and visitors’ experiential knowledge, the platform makes possible the creation of innovative multilingual services for increasing interaction between visitors and cultural heritage objects in a future smart museum environment, taking full benefit of digitized cultural information. This deliverable presents a semantic recommender method and a system for a personalized access to digital cultural heritage through context-aware user profiling. Given annotation knowledge-bases, explicit background knowledge in the form of ontologies, a user model capturing the user’s behavior and context, the system produces recommendations. Ontology-based user profiling can be used to reduce cold-start, sparsity and over-specialization problems. In addition, we present a recommendation retrieval method that is based on the vector space model and clustering, and uses indices that enable fast and scalable implementation of the system. Authors SMARTMUSEUM Consortium (www.smartmuseum.eu) Responsible Editors: TKK, APPRISE, KTH