| decipher |
Description |
Digital heritage and semantic web technologies hold out the promise of nearly unlimited
access to cultural knowledge. The problem is that cultural meaning does not reside
in individual objects but in the patterns of knowledge and events, belief and thought
that link them to each other and to the observer. This is why story is so important
to the communication of, and meaningful understanding of culture.
DECIPHER is developing new solutions to the whole range of narrative construction,
knowledge visualisation and display problems. It will change the way people access
digital heritage by combining much richer, event-based metadata with causal reasoning
models.
This will result in a reasoning engine, virtual environment and interfaces that can
help curators and visitors to present digital heritage objects as part of a coherent
narrative that is directly related to the user's interests. This will allow the user
to interactively assemble, visualise and explore, not just collections of objects,
but the knowledge structures that connect and give them meaning. |
