Exploring Comparative Evaluation of Semantic Enrichment Tools for Cultural Heritage Metadata

Hugo Manguinhas, Nuno Freire, Antoine Isaac, Juliane Stiller, Valentine Charles, Aitor Soroa, Rainer Simon, Vladimir Alexiev

Abstract: Semantic enrichment of metadata is an important and difficult problem for digital heritage efforts such as Europeana. This paper gives motivations and presents the work of a recently completed Task Force that addressed the topic of evaluation of semantic enrichment. We especially report on the design and the results of a comparative evaluation experiment, where we have assessed the enrichments of seven tools (or configurations thereof) on a sample benchmark dataset from Europeana.