A framework for interacting FRBRoo/ CIDOC CRM data: With emphasis on heterogeneous needs

Considerable time and efforts have been spent on developing standards and models that provide interoperability between information system in archives, libraries and museums. Among them CIDOC Conceptual Reference Model (CRM), primarily targeting museum information and later FRBR object-oriented model (FRBRoo), which is an extension to CIDOC CRM developed to integrate information across memory institutions (such as archives, libraries and museums) in a semantic way. Despite different efforts to implement these conceptual models in integrated systems with a substantial amount of cultural heritage information, information retrieval and its representation still has some challenges. The author suggests that information visualization can be applied to display better the semantic structures and relationships between objects described by FRBRoo/ CIDOC CRM. This research also presents the potential of graphical information visualization as a knowledge network and proposes a framework about how a user interface in such integrated systems could be semantically established according to the user needs. Application of this framework can easily be used in many integrated information systems.