SEMANTIC TECHNOLOGIES FOR IMPROVED USABILITY

Espoo City Museum studies and maintains records of the history and cultural heritage of Espoo, the second largest city of Finland. Several specialized museums are included in the Espoo Museum family. The museum has more than 40.000 items on its collection and the photographic archives contain nearly 100.000 images about the development of Espoo.

Profium provides The collection Management System, called Kauko. It utilizes semantic web technology for enhancing the search on concepts of the Finnish General Upper Ontology YSO. The search automatically uses sub-concepts of the concepts given by the user, which improves the quality of results.