The Orthodox Church Museum Riisa is conserving, educating and researching the rich cultural heritage of the Finnish Orthodox Church. Riisa, established by the foundation, is one of the most notable church museums in Europe. The collections and public exhibits of this museum based in Kuopio consist mainly of icons, sacred objects and liturgical textiles from the monasteries and congregations. In addition to the permanent exhibitions, the museum offers seasonal exhibitions.
The strategy of the church highlights the role of technology in preserving and distributing information about cultural heritage. The digital collection management system Kosmos, provided by Profium, has a key role in organizing the item collections, reference library, and photographic archives consisting of thousands of images. Profium Digital Asset Management provides a uniform and centralised solution for storing the image collection and for organizing the management of the item collection. The semantic data structure is configured using RDF schemas. Technical metadata is automatically collected from imported images. Ontologies relevant to the field, especially Finnish General Upper Ontology YSO, are integrated for improved description and retrieval of the collection items.
