System Architecture and Intelligent Data Curation of Virtual Museum for Ancient History

Abstract

Preserving the cultural and historical heritage of various world nations, and their thorough presentation is a long-term commitment of scholars and researchers working in many areas. From centuries every generation is aimed at keeping record about its labor, so that it could be revised and studied by the next generations. New information and multimedia technologies have been developed during the past couple of years, which introduced new methods of preservation, maintenance and distribution of the huge amounts of collected material. This article aims to present the virtual museum, an advanced system managing diverse collections of digital objects that are organized in various ways by a complex specialized functionality. The management of digital content requires a well-designed architecture that embeds services for content presentation, management, and administration. All elements of the system architecture are interrelated, thus the accuracy of each element is of great importance. These systems suffer from the lack of tools for intelligent data curation with the capacity to validate data from different sources and to add value to data. This paper proposes a solution for intelligent data curation that can be implemented in a virtual museum in order to provide opportunity to observe the valuable historical specimens in a proper way. The solution is focused on the process of validation and verification to prevent the duplication of records for digital objects, in order to guarantee the integrity of data and more accurate retrieval of knowledge.

Keywords

• virtual museum
• system architecture
• functionality
• data integrity
• knowledge retrieval
• data validation
• record de-duplication
• cultural heritage