The Second World War (WW2) is arguably the most devastating catastrophe of human
history, a topic of great interest to not only researchers but the general public. However, data …

This paper presents the WarSampo system for publishing collections of heterogeneous,
distributed data about the Second World War on the Semantic Web. WarSampo is based on …

Matchmaking in e-marketplaces consists of finding and retrieving promising counterparts for
a given request from the set of available advertisements. This paper proposes the use of …

Existing metadata schemes and content management systems used by museums focus on
describing the heritage objects that the museum holds in its collection. These are used to …

This article presents the semantic portal and Linked Open Data service WarVictimSampo
1914–1922 about the war victims, battles, and prisoner camps in the Finnish Civil and other …

War history of the Second World War (WW2), humankind's largest disaster, is of great
interest to both laymen and researchers. Most of us have ancestors and relatives who …

Recent work on applying semantic technologies to learning has concentrated on providing
novel means of accessing and making use of learning objects. However, this is …

This paper presents a model for representing historical military personnel and army units,
based on large datasets about World War II in Finland. The model is in use in WarSampo …

Museum narratives, like other forms of narrative, are developed from an underlying
conceptualization of events that can be referred to as the story. Storyscope is a web-based …

Current museum metadata tends to be focused around the properties of the heritage object
such as the artist, style and date of creation. This form of metadata can index a museum's …