Quicklink: A system for the generation of similarity links in cultural heritage archives

In this paper we investigate the automatic and dynamic generation of 'associative links' for navigation in an IR catalogue and present Quicklink, a system which retrieves objects similar to a query object in large archives of artworks by dynamically matching their textual descriptions, and presents the retrieval results in HTML pages, where the objects are ordered according to their similarity degree. This study is part of the project of the Italian National Research Council (CNR) on 'Beni culturali: metodi e strumenti per la creazione di archivi multimediali nel settore della ceramica' (cultural heritage: methods and tools for the creation of multimedia archives in the ceramic sector) developed at ITIM in Milan