Facilitating access to cultural heritage content in Czechia: National Authority Files and INTERMI project

The paper informs about the project Interoperability in memory institutions (INTERMI) in Czechia realized by the National Library of the Czech Republic and National Archive within Applied research and development of national and cultural identity Programme”(NAKI) program funded by the Ministry of Culture of the Czech Republic. The purpose of the project is to create scientific and technological infrastructure to support the processing, sharing and use/reuse of the cultural heritage content in the form of metadata about information objects preserved in memory institutions, it means to create a conceptual model of knowledge which meets the criteria and user’s needs of all memory institutions in Czechia. The project is based on a new paradigm, which is focused on processing of entities enlarged by necessary semantic information and on expression of complex relationships among them. The role of National Authority files in INTERMI knowledge base will be evaluated.