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Cataloguing our cultural heritage has naturally been a major activity of museums and other cultural institutions throughout the world. Today, almost all major museums make their collections available over the Web, often with remarkable quality, such as the Hermitage Museum Web site (Mintzer et. al. 2001)

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(2007). Ontology Applications in Art. In: Semantic Web: Concepts, Technologies and Applications. NASA Monographs in Systems and Software Engineering. Springer, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-84628-710-7_13

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