STARCH

The semi-structured information found in art or document archives, requires flexible ways of being classified and powerful ways of being retrieved based on subject content. Current approaches based on keywords or coding schemes are inadequate. STARCH addresses this issue through the design and construction of a pilot annotation and cataloguing workbench for art archivists, driven by a structured, dynamic compositional terminological model of subject content managed by a description logic. There's a wealth of information on current Description Logic research at the DL home page, and a brief introduction on this site.

STARCH is a two year project funded by an EPSRC ROPA grant. The project started in November 1997.

A PowerPoint 97 presentation describing the aims of STARCH is available (also in a zipped version).