The cultural sector & the semantic web... did you know those two are close friends?  It’s not immediately what you might expect, but the Semantic Web sure is a hot topic in the cultural sector in Belgium and the Netherlands.

Last week’s seminar on The Digital Future of Cultural Heritage had to limit their registration up to 100 participants. We know that ‘semantic’ is the buzz-word wherever you go, but the large attendance in this specific sector made me wonder what is linking them. Why is the cultural sector interested in semantic web technologies?