Content and concept-based retrieval and navigation tools in Sculpteur

The Sculpteur project provides an environment for intelligent retrieval and indexing of multimedia objects related to cultural collections stored in a set of networked databases. The paper gives an overview of the Sculpteur system and illustrates how the ontology developed in Sculpteur describing the application domains of the galleries and museums involved in the project, coupled to the content based analysis can be used to navigate the collections and enhance the content based retrieval.