Thematic Reasoner

The Thematic Reasoner is a tool able to deduce the main thematic subject of a collection of entities (e.g. the artworks of a museum). Specifically, by exploiting the alignments of an entity with DBpedia the tool is able to retrieve the main subject of an entity. Then, the topological organization of the entities into zones is used to associate zones with thematic subjects.

Example

Consider the following exhibition of the Hecht Museum. The exhibition involves 9 artworks localized in different 6 areas of the museum. Each area is located within a room of the building (e.g. the "Bust of Hecht" is located in "Bust of Hecht" area which is an area of the "Entrance" room).

Room	Area	Artwork	Wikipedia
Entrance	Bust of Hecht	Bust of Hecht	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reuben_Hecht
Galilee Rebellion
	Ventrina xx	Arrows	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gamla
		Catapult	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Catapult
	Portraits	Portrait of Joseph Flavius	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Josephus
		Portrait of Berniece	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Berenice_(daughter_of_Herod_Agrippa)
	Ventrina zz	Roman war gear	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Legionary
		Head of Vespian	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vespasian
Main Hall	Ventrina yy	Bar Kochva Rebellion	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bar_Kokhba_revolt
Corridor	Jerusalem Photo	Jerusalem Photo	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jerusalem

TODO

Download and usage

An executable JAR can be obtained from the Releases page.

The jar can be executed as follows:

usage: java -jar thematic.reasoner-ex-<version>.jar  -i path [-b uri] [-o
            filepath] [-s strategy]
 -b,--base-uri <uri>                    The namespace of the new URIs that
                                        will be created.
 -i,--input <path>                      The path to the file storing the
                                        input data about the collection of
                                        artworks to process.
 -o,--output-file <filepath>            The path to the output file
                                        [Default: out.ttl].
 -s,--output-strategy <[console|rdf]>   The output strategy [Default:
                                        console].

License

The Thematic Reasoner is distributed under Apache 2.0 License