Multilingual/Multimedia Access To Cultural Heritage Our shared
cultural heritage (CH) is an essential part of our European
identity, transcending cultural and language barriers. The
MultiMATCH project will enable users to explore and interact
with online CH content, across media types and language
boundaries, in ways that do justice to the multitude of existing
perspectives. The MultiMATCH search engine will (i) crawl the
Internet to identify websites with CH information, locating
relevant texts, images and videos, regardless of the source and
target languages used to write queries and describe the
results;, (ii) likewise identify relevant material via an in-
depth crawling of selected CH institutions, accepting and
processing any semantic web encoding of the information
retrieved; (iii) automatically classify the results in a
semantic-web compliant fashion, based on document content, its
metadata, its context, and on the occurrence of relevant CH
concepts in the document; (iv) automatically extract relevant i