The idea of the new 3-year project is to study how intangible cultural heritage, especially biographical data about historical persons and their lives, can be integrated and enriched with tangible cultural heritage data in museums, archives, and libraries, and how such massively interlinked data can be used in Digital Humanities (DH) research and applications. From a methodological viewpoint, the project develops and integrates language technologies, semantic web technologies, visualizations, network analysis, and artificial intelligence into a new whole, with the aim of developing cross-language, cross-national DH systems with novel features, such as automatic serendipitous knowledge discovery, a kind of computational creativity.
The Finnish partners in the consortium are the University of Helsinki (HELDIG) and Aalto University, building on the previous research in these topics at the Semantic Computing Research Group (SeCo) active at both universities.
HELDIG Facebook posting:
https://www.facebook.com/groups/1697627697233461/permalink/2608021642860724/
Project homepage at SeCo:
https://seco.cs.aalto.fi/projects/intavia/