<abstract xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><p>We present a preliminary study to introduce narratives as a first-class functionality in digital libraries. The general idea is to enrich those libraries with semantic networks of events providing a meaningful contextualisation of the digital libraries’ objects. More specific motivations are presented through a set of use cases by different actors who would benefit from using narratives for different purposes. Then, we consider a specific digital library, Europeana, the largest European digital library in the cultural heritage domain. We discuss how the Europeana Data Model could be extended for representing narratives, and we introduce an ontology for narratives. We also present a semi-automatic tool, which, on the basis of the ontology, supports the creation and visualisation of narratives, and we show how the tool has been employed to create a narrative of the life of the painter Gustav Klimt as a case study. In particular, we focus our attention on the functionality of the tool that allows extracting and proposing to the user specific digital objects for each event of the narrative.</p></abstract>

We present a preliminary study to introduce narratives as a first-class functionality in digital libraries. The general idea is to enrich those libraries with semantic networks of events providing a meaningful contextualisation of the digital libraries’ objects. More specific motivations are presented through a set of use cases by different actors who would benefit from using narratives for different purposes. Then, we consider a specific digital library, Europeana, the largest European digital library in the cultural heritage domain. We discuss how the Europeana Data Model could be extended for representing narratives, and we introduce an ontology for narratives. We also present a semi-automatic tool, which, on the basis of the ontology, supports the creation and visualisation of narratives, and we show how the tool has been employed to create a narrative of the life of the painter Gustav Klimt as a case study. In particular, we focus our attention on the functionality of the tool that allows extracting and proposing to the user specific digital objects for each event of the narrative.

Introducing narratives in Europeana: A case study

Networked Multimedia Information Systems Laboratory

Institute of Information Science and Technologies “Alessandro Faedo”—CNR

International Journal of Applied Mathematics and Computer Science

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We present a preliminary study to introduce narratives as a first-class functionality in digital libraries. The general idea is to enrich those libraries with...

Introducing narratives in Europeana: A case study

Published Online: Mar 29, 2019

Page range: 7 - 16

Received: Feb 06, 2018

Accepted: Nov 16, 2018

DOI: https://doi.org/10.2478/amcs-2019-0001

Keywords
digital libraries, narratives, Europeana, ontologies

© 2019 Carlo Meghini et al., published by Sciendo

This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 3.0 License.

Introducing narratives in Europeana: A case study

Published Online: Mar 29, 2019

Page range: 7 - 16

Received: Feb 06, 2018

Accepted: Nov 16, 2018

DOI: https://doi.org/10.2478/amcs-2019-0001

Keywordsdigital libraries, narratives, Europeana, ontologies

© 2019 Carlo Meghini et al., published by Sciendo

This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 3.0 License.

Keywords
digital libraries, narratives, Europeana, ontologies