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Navigating Cultural Heritage Collections using Pathways

Navigating Cultural Heritage Collections using Pathways. N. Aletras , P.D. Clough, S. Fernando, N.Ford , P. Goodale , M.M. Hall, M. Stevenson University of Sheffield Information School / Department of Computer Science. Opening Up Digital Cultural Heritage.

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Navigating Cultural Heritage Collections using Pathways

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  1. Navigating Cultural Heritage Collections using Pathways N. Aletras, P.D. Clough, S. Fernando, N.Ford, P. Goodale, M.M. Hall, M. Stevenson University of Sheffield Information School / Department of Computer Science Digital Humanities Congress 2012, Sheffield, 6th – 8th September

  2. Opening Up Digital Cultural Heritage http://www.flickr.com/photos/brokenthoughts/122096903/ Carl Collins http://www.flickr.com/photos/carlcollins/199792939/ http://www.flickr.com/photos/usnationalarchives/4069633668/ Digital Humanities Congress 2012, Sheffield, 6th – 8th September

  3. Opening Up Digital Cultural Heritage http://www.flickr.com/photos/28481088@N00/3731283554/ Digital Humanities Congress 2012, Sheffield, 6th – 8th September

  4. Cutting Paths through DCH Leeds Town Hall On The Headrow, sandwiched between the Central Library and Henry Moore Institute. The grand interior houses a notable collection of fine art and the cafe in the recently renovated Victorian Tiled Hall is well worth a visit. The unremarkable exterior architecture is overshadowed by a large broze sculpture by Henry Moore. Leeds City Art Gallery – Entrance Leeds City Art Gallery - Interior http://www.flickr.com/photos/28481088@N00/3731283554/ Digital Humanities Congress 2012, Sheffield, 6th – 8th September

  5. Cutting Paths through DCH Follow Paths Explore the Collection Share their own Paths http://www.flickr.com/photos/28481088@N00/3731283554/ Digital Humanities Congress 2012, Sheffield, 6th – 8th September

  6. Our Collections Digital Humanities Congress 2012, Sheffield, 6th – 8th September

  7. Filtering the Data • Some items have very limited meta-data • Tried filtering these to improve the user-experience • Discard all items that have no description, or title < 4, or title repeated > 100 times • Discard all items that have no description, and title < 4, or title repeated > 100 times • Results improved but not quite sufficient • Plans: Show users “interesting” items first Digital Humanities Congress 2012, Sheffield, 6th – 8th September

  8. Cutting Paths through DCH Leeds Town Hall Similar Items Keywords Background Information Leeds City Art Gallery – Entrance Search facets Thesauri / Vocabularies Leeds City Art Gallery - Interior Digital Humanities Congress 2012, Sheffield, 6th – 8th September

  9. Similar Items • Use Latent Dirichlet Allocation to automatically determine a set of 700 topics in the collection • Similarity calculated based on which topics an item belongs to • Show the 25 most-similar topics to the user • Plans: • Produce more diverse similar items • Limit based on meta-data (similar items in the from the same source, ...) Digital Humanities Congress 2012, Sheffield, 6th – 8th September

  10. Keywords / Search Facets Digital Humanities Congress 2012, Sheffield, 6th – 8th September

  11. Thesauri / Vocabularies • Existing meta-data is not consistent in use of thesauri / vocabularies • Automatically map to a number of manually and automatically generated thesauri / vocabularies • LCSH, Wikipedia categories, DBpedia ontology, Wordnet domains, Wordnet, LDA-based hierarchy, Wikipedia article hierarchy Digital Humanities Congress 2012, Sheffield, 6th – 8th September

  12. Background Information • Automatically link items to Wikipedia articles that are related Painting of a fen landscape A fen is one of the four main types of wetland, and is usually fed by mineral-rich surface water or groundwater Digital Humanities Congress 2012, Sheffield, 6th – 8th September

  13. Creating & Sharing Leeds Town Hall Similar Items Create your own Path! Keywords Add to Workspace Leeds City Art Gallery – Entrance Search facets Thesauri / Vocabularies Leeds City Art Gallery - Interior Digital Humanities Congress 2012, Sheffield, 6th – 8th September

  14. Evaluation • Just finished the first round of full-scale evaluation (31 participants) • Thumbnails a must (bigger is better) • Contextual information appreciated • Search / Browse patterns seem to be different • Desires • Paths that can branch • On-line help • Better integration Digital Humanities Congress 2012, Sheffield, 6th – 8th September

  15. Thank you for listening m.mhall@sheffield.ac.uk Find out more at: http://www.paths-project.eu Try it out at: http://prototype.paths-project.eu The research leading to these results has received funding from the European Community's Seventh Framework Programme (FP7/2007-2013) under grant agreement no 270082. We acknowledge the contribution of all project partners involved in PATHS (see: http://www.paths-project.eu).

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