Um museu como palco de cultura/culturas nos seus diferentes papéis: o Museu dos Transportes e Comunicações

"Minha aldeia é todo o mundo. Todo o mundo me pertence. Aqui me encontro e confundo Com gente de todo o mundo Que a todo o mundo pertence" (António Gedeão). Cada um de nós nasce e vive com uma história de vida, com um “património”, constrói um espaço individual de emoções e, ao longo da vida, exprime sensações, sentimentos, desejos que representam os nossos “eus” individuais. A educação e a cultura constroem os “eus “ sociais ou colectivos, afastam-nos da nossa aldeia, do nosso sentido de pertença e de identidade. Uniformizam-se os consumos das coisas, das ideias, dos conceitos de cultura. A nossa aldeia dá origem a uma aldeia global onde se oferecem caldos de mistura de crendices e intuições pessoais, onde se misturam memórias e histórias, onde se cruzam saberes rigorosos com resultados da experiência individual. Desta forma, aparecem locais de cultura que produzem objectos feitos à medida e promovem consumos estereotipados. Para isso, os média têm contribuído de uma forma determinante para a construção de um conceito de educação e cultura “pronto-a-vestir”. É neste sentido que os museus, como espaços educativos, podem assumir um papel renovador, primeiro, assumindo a educação como sua componente principal e, segundo, com uma função social que os leve até às pessoas, isto é, ao público, assumindo-se, acima de tudo, como um meio de comunicação que estabeleça a relação entre os objectos e os fins pedagógicos e educativos. “Os museus de simples armazéns de objectos passam a ser lugares de aprendizagem activa”. Através de uma pedagogia da libertação e da criatividade, de uma escola dos sentidos e de uma poética do acto educativo, os museus podem hoje inventar algo de diferente, descobrir novos caminhos, exercitar, imaginar e, nos novos aglomerados urbanos desumanizados, criar, em condições de igualdade, rituais de cultura como actos aglutinadores e dinamizadores.Convencidos, acima de tudo, de que somos capazes de criar novas maneiras de ver e de olhar o património , isto é , a vida, podemos captar novos públicos “afectivamente”. Para isso, contaremos a nossa história no espaço e no tempo como acontece em todas as histórias. E, para além disso, perceber que a nossa capacidade de ver é infinita. "A catedral de Burgos tem trinta metros de altura E as pupilas dos meus olhos dois milímetros de abertura. Olha a catedral de Burgos com trinta metros de altura!" (António Gedeão)

Terminology and knowledge engineering conference. New frontiers in the constructive symbiosis of terminology and knowledge engineering

To meet the increasing demands of the complex inter-organizational processes and the demand for continuous innovation and internationalization, it is evident that new forms of organisation are being adopted, fostering more intensive collaboration processes and sharing of resources, in what can be called collaborative networks (Camarinha-Matos, 2006:03). Information and knowledge are crucial resources in collaborative networks, being their management fundamental processes to optimize. Knowledge organisation and collaboration systems are thus important instruments for the success of collaborative networks of organisations having been researched in the last decade in the areas of computer science, information science, management sciences, terminology and linguistics. Nevertheless, research in this area didn’t give much attention to multilingual contexts of collaboration, which pose specific and challenging problems. It is then clear that access to and representation of knowledge will happen more and more on a multilingual setting which implies the overcoming of difficulties inherent to the presence of multiple languages, through the use of processes like localization of ontologies. Although localization, like other processes that involve multilingualism, is a rather well-developed practice and its methodologies and tools fruitfully employed by the language industry in the development and adaptation of multilingual content, it has not yet been sufficiently explored as an element of support to the development of knowledge representations - in particular ontologies - expressed in more than one language. Multilingual knowledge representation is then an open research area calling for cross-contributions from knowledge engineering, terminology, ontology engineering, cognitive sciences, computational linguistics, natural language processing, and management sciences. This workshop joined researchers interested in multilingual knowledge representation, in a multidisciplinary environment to debate the possibilities of cross-fertilization between knowledge engineering, terminology, ontology engineering, cognitive sciences, computational linguistics, natural language processing, and management sciences applied to contexts where multilingualism continuously creates new and demanding challenges to current knowledge representation methods and techniques. In this workshop six papers dealing with different approaches to multilingual knowledge representation are presented, most of them describing tools, approaches and results obtained in the development of ongoing projects. In the first case, Andrés Domínguez Burgos, Koen Kerremansa and Rita Temmerman present a software module that is part of a workbench for terminological and ontological mining, Termontospider, a wiki crawler that aims at optimally traverse Wikipedia in search of domainspecific texts for extracting terminological and ontological information. The crawler is part of a tool suite for automatically developing multilingual termontological databases, i.e. ontologicallyunderpinned multilingual terminological databases. In this paper the authors describe the basic principles behind the crawler and summarized the research setting in which the tool is currently tested. In the second paper, Fumiko Kano presents a work comparing four feature-based similarity measures derived from cognitive sciences. The purpose of the comparative analysis presented by the author is to verify the potentially most effective model that can be applied for mapping independent ontologies in a culturally influenced domain. For that, datasets based on standardized pre-defined feature dimensions and values, which are obtainable from the UNESCO Institute for Statistics (UIS) have been used for the comparative analysis of the similarity measures. The purpose of the comparison is to verify the similarity measures based on the objectively developed datasets. According to the author the results demonstrate that the Bayesian Model of Generalization provides for the most effective cognitive model for identifying the most similar corresponding concepts existing for a targeted socio-cultural community. In another presentation, Thierry Declerck, Hans-Ulrich Krieger and Dagmar Gromann present an ongoing work and propose an approach to automatic extraction of information from multilingual financial Web resources, to provide candidate terms for building ontology elements or instances of ontology concepts. The authors present a complementary approach to the direct localization/translation of ontology labels, by acquiring terminologies through the access and harvesting of multilingual Web presences of structured information providers in the field of finance, leading to both the detection of candidate terms in various multilingual sources in the financial domain that can be used not only as labels of ontology classes and properties but also for the possible generation of (multilingual) domain ontologies themselves. In the next paper, Manuel Silva, António Lucas Soares and Rute Costa claim that despite the availability of tools, resources and techniques aimed at the construction of ontological artifacts, developing a shared conceptualization of a given reality still raises questions about the principles and methods that support the initial phases of conceptualization. These questions become, according to the authors, more complex when the conceptualization occurs in a multilingual setting. To tackle these issues the authors present a collaborative platform – conceptME - where terminological and knowledge representation processes support domain experts throughout a conceptualization framework, allowing the inclusion of multilingual data as a way to promote knowledge sharing and enhance conceptualization and support a multilingual ontology specification. In another presentation Frieda Steurs and Hendrik J. Kockaert present us TermWise, a large project dealing with legal terminology and phraseology for the Belgian public services, i.e. the translation office of the ministry of justice, a project which aims at developing an advanced tool including expert knowledge in the algorithms that extract specialized language from textual data (legal documents) and whose outcome is a knowledge database including Dutch/French equivalents for legal concepts, enriched with the phraseology related to the terms under discussion. Finally, Deborah Grbac, Luca Losito, Andrea Sada and Paolo Sirito report on the preliminary results of a pilot project currently ongoing at UCSC Central Library, where they propose to adapt to subject librarians, employed in large and multilingual Academic Institutions, the model used by translators working within European Union Institutions. The authors are using User Experience (UX) Analysis in order to provide subject librarians with a visual support, by means of “ontology tables” depicting conceptual linking and connections of words with concepts presented according to their semantic and linguistic meaning. The organizers hope that the selection of papers presented here will be of interest to a broad audience, and will be a starting point for further discussion and cooperation.