General View

The EPISA project – Entity and Property Inference for Semantic Archives – treads an essential path in the national panorama towards the accessibility of the Portuguese cultural heritage and information in general.

The purpose of the project is to create a new description model for archives and to promote the semiautomatic creation of metadata. Its main goal is to incorporate the national archives in the global network of semantic linked data.

The project is being developed by INESC TEC (Institute for Systems and Computer Engineering, Technology and Science), in partnership with the University of Évora and DGLAB (General Directorate for Book, Archives and Libraries), under the coordination of Professors Carla Teixeira Lopes and Cristina Ribeiro.

With a duration of four years, the EPISA project is being funded by the Foundation for Science and Technology (FCT) since 2019.

Objectives

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Create a new description model for archives, based on models already proposed for museums and archives

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Support archival description in the semi-automatic creation of metadata

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Migrate existing ISAD-standard archival descriptions to standards compliant with the CIDOC-CRM (museums) and RiC (ICA) model

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Incorporate the archives in the global network of semantic linked data

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Link archival data to other information sources

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Propose interfaces that enable a more efficient interaction, for specialists, for general users and for machines

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Promote the presence of national archives in international aggregators

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Facilitate access to archives/cultural heritage

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Facilitate access to information

Tasks

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1. Project management and dissemination of results

2. Linked data model for cultural content 

3. Semantic migration with relations inference 

4. Knowledge propagation 

5. Document mining for automatic metadata records 

6. Knowledge graph management platform 

7. Exploration and querying interface 

8. User evaluation 

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Acknowledgements

Tribute in memoriam to Francisco Barbedo