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Visualizing Art History
Doron Goldfarbdoron@ec.tuwien.ac.at
Electronic Commerce GroupVSEM – The Virtual 3D Social Experience Museum
Institute of Software Technology and Interactive SystemsVienna University of Technology
Favoritenstrasse 9-11/188-1 . 1040 Vienna . Austria/EuropeTel: +43 (1) 58801 - 18815
http://vsem.ec.tuwien.ac.at/
Art History as „Network of Relations“
Relations in tradition, influence, style and technique
Relations between people ( teacher/student, patrons, collaborators, etc.)
Geographical influences( „Dutch Light“ ... )
General historical influences( wars, different reigns etc. )
Last but not least: associative approaches
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Diagrams of Art „Development“
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„Art Diagrams“ as Virtual Museum Layouts ?
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Use existing semantic relationships
Organize them to form “Narratives” and
use them as base for automatic graph layouts
1st example: Relationships between artists, their patrons etc.
Data Sources – Image Database
Web Gallery of Art
Provides information about ~17.000 artworks by ~2.200 artists
RAFFAELLO Sanzio;(b. 1483, Urbino, d. 1520, Roma);The Transfiguration;1518-20;Oil on wood, 405 x 278 cm;Pinacoteca, Vatican;http://www.wga.hu/html/r/raphael/5roma/5/10trans.htmlpainting;religious;Italian;1501-1550
Data Sources – Controlled Vocabularies
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Getty Union List of Artist Names ( ULAN )Structured vocabulary of artist names and biographical information
Getty Arts & Architecture Thesaurus ( AAT )Structured vocabulary of concepts relating to the fine arts, architecture and decorative arts
Getty Thesaurus of Geographic Names ( TGN )Structured vocabulary of geographic names for indexing art and architecture
RDF Mapping between Image Metadata and Vocabularies
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WGA RDF Dataset
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<rdf:Description rdf:about="&wga;15104"> <vra:creator rdf:resource="&ulan;500023578"/>
<vra:date.beginning>1518-01-01</vra:date.beginning> <vra:date.completion>1520-12-31</vra:date.completion>
<vra:title>The Transfiguration</vra:title> <vra:material>Oil on wood</vra:material> <vra:measurements.dimensions>405.0 x
278.0</vra:measurements.dimensions> <vra:measurements.formats>cm</vra:measurements.formats> <vra:location.currentSite> Vatican</vra:location.currentSite> <vra:location.currentSite rdf:resource="&tgn;None"/> <vra:location.currentRepository>Pinacoteca</vra:location.currentRepository>
<vra:type rdf:resource="&aat;300033618"/> <vra:subject rdf:resource="&aat;300248179"/> <vra:culture rdf:resource="&aat;300111198"/> <rdf:type rdf:resource="&vra;Work"/>
</rdf:Description>
<rdf:Description rdf:about="&wgaimg;/r/raphael/5roma/5/10trans.jpg"> <vra:relation.depicts rdf:resource="&wga;15104"/> <vra:source>WGA</vra:source> <rdf:type rdf:resource="&vra;Image"/></rdf:Description>
The ClioPatria semantic search web-server
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http://e-culture.multimedian.nl
won the first prize at the Semantic Web Challenge at the 5th International Semantic Web Conference held in Athens, Georgia, USA.
The MultimediaN E-culture project uses ClioPatria for thesaurus-based searching in heterogeneous cultural heritage collections
The CATCH CHIP project uses ClioPatria to power the search engine underlying their Rijksmuseum art recommender and personalized museum tour guide
Available under the GPL-2 license.
Search Graph ...
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... Becomes a Timeline Graph
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Current Prototype
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Translate the timeline graph into a 3D representation
Use additional dimension to represent “influence”
Code rank of artist node as height value
Show relations as differently colored curves
Show images and related metadata
Current Prototype
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Current Prototype
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Current Prototype
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Outlook
Dynamic Graph Drawing
Multi User Visualization
Different Narratives ( Geographical, User generated Tags )
Additional ( semantic ) datasources like Freebase and DBpedia
! EVALUATION !
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Thank you !
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