Description

mAuth is a tool for art historians, data collection managers, and curious, who want to collect information - historians' opinions, motivations, bibliographic references, and images - about artwork attributions related to artworks of the Modern Art (15-16th centuries). mAuth is a semantic crawler designed for harvesting information on artwork attributions in the web of data. mAuth API is implemented in Python, using Flask microframework. mAuth is a proof of concept. The aim is leveraging Semantic Web technologies to (a) support historians' daily tasks (such as retrieving information and sources), (b) evaluate the methodology underpinning decisions made by art historical data providers, and (c) investigate how authoritativeness can be automatically interpreted given a set of rules and believes shared in a community.