MuseumFinland — Finnish Museums on the Semantic Web User’s Perspective

This paper presents a semantic portal, MuseumFinland, for publishing heterogeneous museum collections on the Semantic Web. The application is presented from the viewpoints of the end-user and the museums providing the contents. By semantic web techniques, it is possible to make collections semantically interoperable and provide the museum visitors with intelligent content-based search and browsing services to the global collection base. By using the MuseumFinland approach the museums with their semantically rich and interrelated collection content can create consolidated semantic collection portals together on the web.