Mnemosyne

Connecting and Sharing Memories and Cultural Experiences

Two days ago, we submitted an EU project proposal for a project named “Mnemosyne”, I though I would not speak of it before the feedback, but as thomas, our project coordinator, already blogged about it, I thought I could do it as well.

You can find the abstract on thomas’ blog, so I won’t copy paste it here… So what’s the idea? well here is Mnemosyne recipe:

1. Take the web2.0 ideas of simplicity, interoperability and social amplitude
2. Add some semantic web/computing power
3. Choose the best possible case study, Cultural Heritage
4. Connect the right people together
5. Shake it
6. Shake it again

Here it is you’ve got the idea. So some resources now:

1. the post here about the talk I gave last year in Peter Samis’ class which kind of originated all this.
2. The steve.museum project, which I blogged about too. Steve experiments with social tagging in the context of museums.
3. Then the people, our university of lugano, its faculty of informatics, the tec-lab, the usability lab of KTH, the semantic web researchers of DFKI, the PRC group.
4. The museums involved, Centre Georges Pompidou, Istituto Beni Culturali per la Regione Emilia Romagna, the thessaloniki Museum of photography.