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Definition of the MOSAICA Web-based Portal

The MOSAICA Web-based portal provides Multifaceted interfaces to:

  1. GIS (Geographical Information System) empowered map. Rather then hard coding GIS data, it is our intention to empower the GIS with the Semantic Web technologies, and thus allow semantic references between the information displayed on the map to be created dynamically and online. By applying logical reasoning we intend to enrich the spatial display with the timeline, thus extending the spatial navigation into the temporal dimension.

  2. Semantic directory. Instead consisting of a single, predefined ontology, the MOSAICA Ontology will be generated dynamically and online from multiple, distributed ontologies (on Jewish heritage for the Project use case) already available over the WWW. Unlike regular directories that are hierarchically organised, MOSAICA semantic directory will allow conceptual navigation by following additional, complex semantic relations.

  3. Semantic search engine. Search and retrieval facility will be empowered with logical reasoning allowing semantic inference, and extending the keyword querying into the domain of conceptualisation. Both semantic directory and semantic search engine will allow integrated access to the diversified (in both content and format) cultural resources by seamlessly aggregating them into a single conceptual frame.

  4. Repository of educational resources. MOSAICA introduces the concept of Virtual Expedition a thematically-organised succession of virtual objects in the form of web-based resources, bound together by a conceptual model, allowing interactive exploration through alternative trails, or through examination of the thematically pre selected semantically related content.
    This concept is related to the term virtual tour that became a popular WWW epithet for websites visually presenting a particular physical location (ranging from the NASA Visitors Center to real estate properties, to human ear!). However, this is not the intended meaning of Virtual Expeditions in our approach. 
    The following mock-up screenshot exemplifies this vision of MOSAICA’s Virtual Expeditions.

All navigational interfaces will be tightly interconnected enabling users to seamlessly move between them (for example, by selecting a certain item from the search results, users will be able to move to the GIS empowered map with related locations automatically marked on it, or to the MOSAICA directory displaying the relevant concepts and their semantic relations, etc.).