The Online Museum and Its Contribution to e-Humanities. Agora and the Hermeneutics of Access
1. The Online Museum and its Contribution to E-humanities
Agora and the hermeneutics of access
NODEM2013
Chiel van den Akker
VU University Amsterdam
Agora
4. online access to cultural heritage
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requires a hermeneutic approach
contributes to the conceptualization of e-humanities
5. Agora Team: Lora Aroyo, Guus Schreiber, Lourens van der Meij, Marieke van Erp, Chiel van
den Akker, Susan Legêne, Geertje Jacobs, Johan Oomen
6. digital hermeneutics
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a theory of interpretation
is concerned with the limits of automation and modeling on the one hand, and the
interaction of people and technology on the other
9. evaluating online access to cultural heritage
four dimensions
• information - interpretation
• provision - support
• automatic - manual
• lay-users - expert-users
10. evaluating applications
provide information:
• manual: metadata, wiki, links
• automatic: entities and event extraction, data-mining
support information:
• manual: users tag, add comments and links
• automatic: search & browse
‘‘From Information Delivery to Interpretation Support: Evaluating Cultural Heritage Access on the Web”,
Proceedings of the 5th Annual ACM Web Science Conference, (ACM: New York, 2013), 431-440
11. evaluating applications
provide interpretation:
• manual: add stories or links between objects
• automatic: generation of narrative relations between events and objects (e.g.
proto-narratives in Agora)
support interpretation:
• manual: favorites, personal spaces
• automatic: supporting creating (narrative) relations between events and objects
(e.g. plot-features in Decipher)
‘From Information Delivery to Interpretation Support: Evaluating Cultural Heritage Access on the Web’
16. Two conceptions of e-humanities
Guus Schreiber on the Agora-project, 30-05-2013.
17. framework of digital hermeneutics enables us to
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analyze applications providing online access to cultural heritage
reason about online access to cultural heritage
theorize the Web: e.g. limits of modeling, human-machine interaction
18. take home message
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the online museum requires a hermeneutics of access
cultural heritage institutions need to find a balance between (1) the provision and
support of information and (2) the provision and support of interpretation