Exploring comparative evaluation of semantic enrichment tools for cultural heritage metadata

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.