We plan to extend our current system to cover the indexing, retrieval and metadata augmentation of digital cultural objects. Our work will comply with the CCO (Cataloguing Cultural Objects) data content standards for describing cultural objects. New, standardised representation schemes and more advanced abstract transformation and inferencing modules will be developed and evaluated using a sample collection from the Smithsonian American Art Archives.
We also plan to hold further discussions with the East China Normal University, the Central China Normal University and their partnered museums in China on the subjects of future collaboration and access to a sample database of cultural objects for case-study use.