Publishing and Using Cultural Heritage Linked Data on the Semantic Web

Eero Hyvönen1 is a professor of semantic media technology at the Aalto University, Department of Media Technology, and an adjunct professor of computer science at the University of Helsinki, Department of Computer Science. He directs the Semantic Computing Research Group SeCo2 specializing in Semantic Web technologies and applications. A major theme in his research during the last years has been the development of a semantic web content infrastructure on a national scale in Finland and its applications in areas such as Cultural Heritage. Eero Hyvönen has published over 300 articles, papers, and books.With his SeCo group, he has received several international and national awards, including the Semantic Web Challenge Award (in 2004 and 2008), World Summit Award (WSA) (2010), and Apps4Finland – Doing Good with Open Data (2010). He acts on the editorial boards of Semantic Web – Interoperability, Usability, Applicability, Semantic Computing, and International Journal of Metadata, Semantics, and Ontologies, and has co-chaired and acted on the program committees of tens of major international conferences and workshops, such as ESWC, ISWC, IJCAI, WWW, ICSC, etc

• Cultural Heritage on the Semantic Web.- Portal Model for Collaborative CH Publishing.- Requirements for Publishing Linked Data.- Metadata Schemas.- Domain Vocabularies and Ontologies.- Logic Rules for Cultural Heritage.- Cultural Content Creation.- Semantic Services for Human and Machine Users.- Conclusions.