BudayaKB

Abstract

Cultural heritage is the root of national identities, and contributes to tourism, economics, industry, and business. Digital preservation of cultural heritage is therefore crucial, particularly in a form that is easily processable by machines. Available cultural heritage information on Web sources (e.g., Wikipedia) is presented in multiple formats, such as free-form text, lists, and tables. Such formats, however, lack structures and links to other information sources. The provision of cultural heritage information as a knowledge base, that is both structured and linked, would pave new ways for consuming such information. In this paper, we propose an approach to extract entities of cultural heritage from diverse formats (i.e., text, lists, and tables), and to construct a knowledge base of cultural heritage entities, called BudayaKB, using RDF data model that provides an integrated, format-independent view. Our extraction approach follows on the observation that cultural heritage entities are often written down either with common noun descriptors (e.g., Jiwa temple) or hypernym-hyponym sentence patterns (e.g., ... Acehnese traditional weapons such as Rencong...). We evaluate our approach to Indonesian Wikipedia, and achieve a precision of 84% for extracting Indonesian cultural heritage entities. The extracted entities are then imported and linked to the Wikidata KB, allowing greater interoperability of cultural heritage information. BudayaKB is openly available at https://budayakb.cs.ui.ac.id/.