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This paper presents a method for making metadata conforming to heterogeneous schemas semantically interoperable. The idea is to make the knowledge embedded in the schema structures interoperable and explicit by transforming the schemas into a shared, event-based representation of knowledge about the real world. This enables and simplifies accurate reasoning services such as cross-domain semantic search, browsing, and recommending. A case study of transforming three different schemas and datasets is presented. An implemented knowledge-based recommender system utilizing the results in the semantic portal CultureSampo was found useful in a preliminary user study.
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Ruotsalo, T., Hyvönen, E. (2007). An Event-Based Approach for Semantic Metadata Interoperability. In: Aberer, K., et al. The Semantic Web. ISWC ASWC 2007 2007. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 4825. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-76298-0_30
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