@article{Foulonneau_2013, title={Cultural Heritage Collections: From Content Curation to Semantic Services and the Semantic Web}, volume={3}, url={https://journals.uic.edu/ojs/index.php/UC/article/view/4716}, abstractNote={The action of collecting intentionally resources for a specific purpose, to organize them for personal<br />use or for a particular audience, creates meaning. It has in itself a value which can be shared<br />and used, just like descriptions or annotations to enable retrieval and manipulation of resources.<br />All the actions of content creators, managers (e.g., librarians or museum curators) and users may<br />be thought of through the concept of collection. Content creators often create a set of resources.<br />Managers collect resources for a particular audience (e.g., the manuscripts of James Joyce or<br />a collection of resources to support researchers in high energy physics). Users collect resources<br />and organize them in their environment.<br />Nevertheless, resources are most often described at item level and more rarely at collection level.<br />The standards for the description of collections are not as stable and consistently used as standards<br />for item level descriptions. As a result, while the work around resources is conditioned and<br />driven by implicitly or explicitly created collections, those are often not represented in resource<br />management systems.<br />Recent advances in online services have emphasized interactions with users who can create their<br />own collections and share them in Web 2.0 applications. Semantic representations of resources<br />have also led to widening our conception of valuable resources because anything can be a resource<br />of equal importance, a picture, a book, a city, an idea, and therefore also a collection.<br />This article provides an overview of collection description practices, the integration of collections<br />in different services, the metadata models for collection level descriptions, and the representations<br />of collections on the Semantic Web.}, number={5/6}, journal={Uncommon Culture}, author={Foulonneau, Muriel}, year={2013}, month={May}, pages={53–60} }