Personalizing Access to Cultural Heritage Collections using Pathwayspathsproject
This document discusses personalizing access to cultural heritage collections using pathways. It proposes that paths or trails are a flexible model for navigation that can enhance the user experience and support learning. The document describes the PATHS project, which aims to implement user models and provide a mechanism for users to create and share pathways through digital collections. Personalized access will be provided by adapting suggested routes to individual users and groups.
Generating Paths through Cultural Heritage Collections, LATECH 2013 paperpathsproject
Generating Paths through Cultural Heritage Collections Samuel Fernando, Paula Goodale, Paul Clough, Mark Stevenson, Mark Hall and Eneko Agirre.
The PATHS project brings the idea of guided tours to digital library collections where a tool to create virtual paths are used to assist with navigation and provide guides on particular subjects and topics. In this paper we characterise and analyse paths of items created by users of our online system.
Museum as Platform; Curator as ChampionNancy Proctor
"Museum as Platform; Curator as Champion: Learning to sing in the age of social media," a presentation by Nancy Proctor at the conference, "Event Culture: The Museum and Its Staging of Contemporary Art" organized by the Copenhagen Doctoral School of Cultural Studies, Department of Arts and Cultural Studies, Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, 7 November 2009.
Creative Commons License Attribution-Noncommercial 3.0 United States
II Konferencja Naukowa : Nauka o informacji (informacja naukowa) w okresie zmian, Warszawa, 15-16.04.2013 r. Instytut Informacji Naukowej i Studiów Bibliologicznych, Uniwersytet Warszawski
The 2nd Scientific Conference : Information Science in an Age of Change, April 15-16, 2013. Institute of Information and Book Studies, University of Warsaw
The document discusses the relevance of classification and indexing for organizing internet resources. It argues that while the internet has grown without formal organization tools like classification schemes and vocabularies, bringing such library techniques to the web could help address the problem of information being difficult to find, access, and retrieve from the vast, unorganized data available online. Applying concepts from knowledge organization, like subject descriptors and relationships between resources, is an approach taken by the semantic web to help machines better understand and process information on the web.
A web presentation on a new Digital Storytelling initiative launched in collaboration with the American Library Association. Find out how to document your unique personal story of library impact in a growing social media database. Living Stories, Living Libraries can be a platform for community building, library advocacy, and documentary style photography.
This presentation was given at Bobcatsss2013 in Ankara.
Once the library assembled a collection and people came to the library to use it. Now, people build communication, workflows and behaviors around a variety of network resources. The library needs to think about how it is visible and relevant in those workflows and behaviors.
Sian Evans is an experienced librarian and published author with over 10 years of experience working at ARTstor, where she currently serves as Senior Implementation Manager. She holds masters degrees in Library and Information Science and Art History. Evans has managed relationships with over 35 institutions as clients of ARTstor's Shared Shelf media management software. She is also involved in several professional organizations and has co-organized international Wikipedia edit-a-thons on women in the arts.
Personalizing Access to Cultural Heritage Collections using Pathwayspathsproject
This document discusses personalizing access to cultural heritage collections using pathways. It proposes that paths or trails are a flexible model for navigation that can enhance the user experience and support learning. The document describes the PATHS project, which aims to implement user models and provide a mechanism for users to create and share pathways through digital collections. Personalized access will be provided by adapting suggested routes to individual users and groups.
Generating Paths through Cultural Heritage Collections, LATECH 2013 paperpathsproject
Generating Paths through Cultural Heritage Collections Samuel Fernando, Paula Goodale, Paul Clough, Mark Stevenson, Mark Hall and Eneko Agirre.
The PATHS project brings the idea of guided tours to digital library collections where a tool to create virtual paths are used to assist with navigation and provide guides on particular subjects and topics. In this paper we characterise and analyse paths of items created by users of our online system.
Museum as Platform; Curator as ChampionNancy Proctor
"Museum as Platform; Curator as Champion: Learning to sing in the age of social media," a presentation by Nancy Proctor at the conference, "Event Culture: The Museum and Its Staging of Contemporary Art" organized by the Copenhagen Doctoral School of Cultural Studies, Department of Arts and Cultural Studies, Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, 7 November 2009.
Creative Commons License Attribution-Noncommercial 3.0 United States
II Konferencja Naukowa : Nauka o informacji (informacja naukowa) w okresie zmian, Warszawa, 15-16.04.2013 r. Instytut Informacji Naukowej i Studiów Bibliologicznych, Uniwersytet Warszawski
The 2nd Scientific Conference : Information Science in an Age of Change, April 15-16, 2013. Institute of Information and Book Studies, University of Warsaw
The document discusses the relevance of classification and indexing for organizing internet resources. It argues that while the internet has grown without formal organization tools like classification schemes and vocabularies, bringing such library techniques to the web could help address the problem of information being difficult to find, access, and retrieve from the vast, unorganized data available online. Applying concepts from knowledge organization, like subject descriptors and relationships between resources, is an approach taken by the semantic web to help machines better understand and process information on the web.
A web presentation on a new Digital Storytelling initiative launched in collaboration with the American Library Association. Find out how to document your unique personal story of library impact in a growing social media database. Living Stories, Living Libraries can be a platform for community building, library advocacy, and documentary style photography.
This presentation was given at Bobcatsss2013 in Ankara.
Once the library assembled a collection and people came to the library to use it. Now, people build communication, workflows and behaviors around a variety of network resources. The library needs to think about how it is visible and relevant in those workflows and behaviors.
Sian Evans is an experienced librarian and published author with over 10 years of experience working at ARTstor, where she currently serves as Senior Implementation Manager. She holds masters degrees in Library and Information Science and Art History. Evans has managed relationships with over 35 institutions as clients of ARTstor's Shared Shelf media management software. She is also involved in several professional organizations and has co-organized international Wikipedia edit-a-thons on women in the arts.
Library collections and the emerging scholarly recordlisld
A high level review of collection trends followed by a summary of recent work on the evolving scholarly record.
Presented at the OCLC Research Library Partnership meeting at the University of Melbourne, 2 December 2015.
Collections unbound: collection directions and the RLUK collective collectionlisld
A presentation given to RLUK Members' meeting at the University of Warwick.
The library identity has been closely bound with its collection. However this is changing as research and learning behaviours evolve in a network environment. There are three interesting trends. First, atttention is shifting from a library-centric view of a locally owned collection to a user-centred view of a facilitated collection in places where the library can add value. Second, there is growing emphasis on support for creation, for the process of research, as well as for the products, the article or book. And third, we are seeing a changing perspective on the historic core, the print book collection. Increasingly, this is being seen in collective ways as institutions manage down print, or think about its management in cooperative settings, or retire collections as space is reconfigured around research and learning experiences. This presentation also provides preliminary findings for the analysis being carried out by OCLC Research of the RLUK collective collection.
The identity of the library is closely bound with its collections. In a print world, this made sense, as the central role of the library was to place materials close to the user and arrange them for effective use.
However, in a network environment this is no longer the case. Lorcan Dempsey, Vice President, Membership and Research, and Chief Strategist at the Online Computer Library Center, will discuss the following three trends that are changing the character of library collections:
The facilitated collection, where the library connects users to resources of interest to their research and learning needs, whether or not they are assembled locally.
The collective collection, where libraries begin to think about moving to shared environments to manage their collections and assuming collective responsibility for stewardship of the scholarly record.
The inside-out collection, where libraries work with other campus partners to support the creation, management and disclosure of institutional materials—research data, special collections, and so on. Here the library supports the creative enterprise of scholarship directly. Together, these trends are changing how we think about collections, libraries, and services to their users.
Together, these trends are changing how we think about collections, libraries, and services to their users.
The Thomas Lecture Series honors the outstanding work that Shirley K. Baker, former Vice Chancellor for Scholarly Resources & Dean of University Libraries, led in the areas of networked information and resource sharing.
Innovative services developed in the INSS Project [Resursă electronică] : Prezentare / Bibl. Şt. a Univ. de Stat "Alecu Russo" din Bălţi ; realizare Elena Harconiţa. - Bălţi, 2018.
Library discovery: past, present and some futureslisld
A presentation at the NISO virtual conference on Webscale Discovery Services, 20 November 2013.
Considers some of the issues that have led to the adoption of these services, and some future directions.
Distinguishes between discovery (providing a library destination) and discoverability (making stuff discoverable elsewhere).
Presentation at COAR-SPARC conference “Connecting research, bridging communities, opening scholarship. University of Porto, Portugal, April 15-16, 2015
https://www.coar-repositories.org/news-media/coar-sparc-conference-2015-connecting-research-results-bridging-communities-opening-scholarship/
Presentation at COAR-SPARC Conference “Connecting research, bridging communities, opening scholarship". University of Porto, Portugal, April 15-16, 2015
sparc.arl.org/events/joint-coar-sparc-conference
Transforming research by unlocking biodiversity data in libraries and archive...CONUL Conference
The document summarizes the Biodiversity Heritage Library (BHL), an open access digital library that aims to make biodiversity literature openly available. It does this through a global consortium of natural history institutions that collaborate on digitizing publications and making them freely accessible online. The BHL supports research by addressing the lack of access to historical literature. It has digitized over 12 million pages and sees millions of users annually from around the world.
This document discusses what business libraries are in and how they should reposition themselves. It argues that libraries should move away from being centered around physical collections and toward prioritizing user engagement, expertise, services and digital infrastructure. Specifically, it suggests that libraries focus on space that encourages social interaction and knowledge sharing, make their expertise more visible, provide more user-centered services, leverage cloud-based systems, and use data to better support research and learning.
This document discusses scholarly communications (ScholComm) and the role of librarians. It notes that the scholarly publishing system is adapting with faculty using new tools, libraries providing more support services, and universities developing new policies and rewards. The library supports open access by building an institutional repository and educating about author's rights. As the scholarly communications librarian, duties include advocacy, outreach to faculty, and committee work around issues like copyright and digital scholarship.
People, Communities and Platforms: Digital Cultural Heritage and the WebTrevor Owens
Libraries, archives and museums are sites of community memory. The first public computerized bulletin board system was called community memory. Trevor’s talk will explore the connections between the development of the web as a global knowledge base, the open source software movement, and digital strategy for libraries, archives and museums. This keynote talk will synthesize research on the history of online community software with practical experience working on open source digital library projects. This exploration underscores the essential role cultural heritage institutions need to play in this era of the web and some important distinctions between how the concept of community is deployed in discussions of the web.
The document provides an overview of the Sheffield Information School and introduces the PATHS project which uses pathways for navigation and personalised access to cultural heritage materials. It summarizes that the Information School is a leading institution for information retrieval research with areas of focus including text reuse, multilingual access, and geographic information retrieval. It then discusses how the PATHS project aims to provide personalized access to cultural heritage collections through semantic pathways.
The document summarizes grants and social media activities related to the Biodiversity Heritage Library. It discusses several grants awarded to digitize field notes, link literature and specimens, and enhance access to images. It also describes the library's use of social media platforms like Flickr, Facebook, and Twitter to engage audiences and drive traffic to the website. In 2013, over 1.4 million people visited the website, with over 36,000 visits originating from social media. The library's Flickr account contains over 87,000 images and has received over 24 million views.
Calhoun and Brenner: Engaging your Community Through Cultural Heritage Digita...ALATechSource
The document discusses engaging communities through cultural heritage digital libraries. It covers discoverability of digital libraries through integrated and decentralized methods. This includes getting attention on the web through links and metadata sharing. The document also discusses moving from static repositories to more social platforms that allow participation. Examples given include crowdsourcing content enrichment and participatory collection building. The goal is to shift focus from collections to opening knowledge creation and having chatty, unpredictable digital libraries through various engagement strategies.
IND-2012-243 DAV Public School, Kansbahal -Wonders of Herbs - A journey towar...designforchangechallenge
Students organized a journey to create a herbal garden with the goal of leading a greener and healthier life. They selected a site, cleaned it, and heard expert advice on environmental awareness. Students made signs and posters, interacted with villagers, identified useful herbs, and visited a nursery to collect plants. They designed and prepared the herbal garden, filling pots with soil and planting herbs, and inaugurated the completed garden.
SemEval-2012 Task 6: A Pilot on Semantic Textual Similaritypathsproject
This document describes the SemEval-2012 Task 6 on semantic textual similarity. The task involved measuring the semantic equivalence of sentence pairs on a scale from 0 to 5. The training data consisted of 2000 sentence pairs from existing paraphrase and machine translation datasets. The test data also had 2000 sentence pairs from these datasets as well as surprise datasets. Systems were evaluated based on their Pearson correlation with human annotations. 35 teams participated and the best systems achieved a Pearson correlation over 80%. This pilot task established semantic textual similarity as an area for further exploration.
Library collections and the emerging scholarly recordlisld
A high level review of collection trends followed by a summary of recent work on the evolving scholarly record.
Presented at the OCLC Research Library Partnership meeting at the University of Melbourne, 2 December 2015.
Collections unbound: collection directions and the RLUK collective collectionlisld
A presentation given to RLUK Members' meeting at the University of Warwick.
The library identity has been closely bound with its collection. However this is changing as research and learning behaviours evolve in a network environment. There are three interesting trends. First, atttention is shifting from a library-centric view of a locally owned collection to a user-centred view of a facilitated collection in places where the library can add value. Second, there is growing emphasis on support for creation, for the process of research, as well as for the products, the article or book. And third, we are seeing a changing perspective on the historic core, the print book collection. Increasingly, this is being seen in collective ways as institutions manage down print, or think about its management in cooperative settings, or retire collections as space is reconfigured around research and learning experiences. This presentation also provides preliminary findings for the analysis being carried out by OCLC Research of the RLUK collective collection.
The identity of the library is closely bound with its collections. In a print world, this made sense, as the central role of the library was to place materials close to the user and arrange them for effective use.
However, in a network environment this is no longer the case. Lorcan Dempsey, Vice President, Membership and Research, and Chief Strategist at the Online Computer Library Center, will discuss the following three trends that are changing the character of library collections:
The facilitated collection, where the library connects users to resources of interest to their research and learning needs, whether or not they are assembled locally.
The collective collection, where libraries begin to think about moving to shared environments to manage their collections and assuming collective responsibility for stewardship of the scholarly record.
The inside-out collection, where libraries work with other campus partners to support the creation, management and disclosure of institutional materials—research data, special collections, and so on. Here the library supports the creative enterprise of scholarship directly. Together, these trends are changing how we think about collections, libraries, and services to their users.
Together, these trends are changing how we think about collections, libraries, and services to their users.
The Thomas Lecture Series honors the outstanding work that Shirley K. Baker, former Vice Chancellor for Scholarly Resources & Dean of University Libraries, led in the areas of networked information and resource sharing.
Innovative services developed in the INSS Project [Resursă electronică] : Prezentare / Bibl. Şt. a Univ. de Stat "Alecu Russo" din Bălţi ; realizare Elena Harconiţa. - Bălţi, 2018.
Library discovery: past, present and some futureslisld
A presentation at the NISO virtual conference on Webscale Discovery Services, 20 November 2013.
Considers some of the issues that have led to the adoption of these services, and some future directions.
Distinguishes between discovery (providing a library destination) and discoverability (making stuff discoverable elsewhere).
Presentation at COAR-SPARC conference “Connecting research, bridging communities, opening scholarship. University of Porto, Portugal, April 15-16, 2015
https://www.coar-repositories.org/news-media/coar-sparc-conference-2015-connecting-research-results-bridging-communities-opening-scholarship/
Presentation at COAR-SPARC Conference “Connecting research, bridging communities, opening scholarship". University of Porto, Portugal, April 15-16, 2015
sparc.arl.org/events/joint-coar-sparc-conference
Transforming research by unlocking biodiversity data in libraries and archive...CONUL Conference
The document summarizes the Biodiversity Heritage Library (BHL), an open access digital library that aims to make biodiversity literature openly available. It does this through a global consortium of natural history institutions that collaborate on digitizing publications and making them freely accessible online. The BHL supports research by addressing the lack of access to historical literature. It has digitized over 12 million pages and sees millions of users annually from around the world.
This document discusses what business libraries are in and how they should reposition themselves. It argues that libraries should move away from being centered around physical collections and toward prioritizing user engagement, expertise, services and digital infrastructure. Specifically, it suggests that libraries focus on space that encourages social interaction and knowledge sharing, make their expertise more visible, provide more user-centered services, leverage cloud-based systems, and use data to better support research and learning.
This document discusses scholarly communications (ScholComm) and the role of librarians. It notes that the scholarly publishing system is adapting with faculty using new tools, libraries providing more support services, and universities developing new policies and rewards. The library supports open access by building an institutional repository and educating about author's rights. As the scholarly communications librarian, duties include advocacy, outreach to faculty, and committee work around issues like copyright and digital scholarship.
People, Communities and Platforms: Digital Cultural Heritage and the WebTrevor Owens
Libraries, archives and museums are sites of community memory. The first public computerized bulletin board system was called community memory. Trevor’s talk will explore the connections between the development of the web as a global knowledge base, the open source software movement, and digital strategy for libraries, archives and museums. This keynote talk will synthesize research on the history of online community software with practical experience working on open source digital library projects. This exploration underscores the essential role cultural heritage institutions need to play in this era of the web and some important distinctions between how the concept of community is deployed in discussions of the web.
The document provides an overview of the Sheffield Information School and introduces the PATHS project which uses pathways for navigation and personalised access to cultural heritage materials. It summarizes that the Information School is a leading institution for information retrieval research with areas of focus including text reuse, multilingual access, and geographic information retrieval. It then discusses how the PATHS project aims to provide personalized access to cultural heritage collections through semantic pathways.
The document summarizes grants and social media activities related to the Biodiversity Heritage Library. It discusses several grants awarded to digitize field notes, link literature and specimens, and enhance access to images. It also describes the library's use of social media platforms like Flickr, Facebook, and Twitter to engage audiences and drive traffic to the website. In 2013, over 1.4 million people visited the website, with over 36,000 visits originating from social media. The library's Flickr account contains over 87,000 images and has received over 24 million views.
Calhoun and Brenner: Engaging your Community Through Cultural Heritage Digita...ALATechSource
The document discusses engaging communities through cultural heritage digital libraries. It covers discoverability of digital libraries through integrated and decentralized methods. This includes getting attention on the web through links and metadata sharing. The document also discusses moving from static repositories to more social platforms that allow participation. Examples given include crowdsourcing content enrichment and participatory collection building. The goal is to shift focus from collections to opening knowledge creation and having chatty, unpredictable digital libraries through various engagement strategies.
IND-2012-243 DAV Public School, Kansbahal -Wonders of Herbs - A journey towar...designforchangechallenge
Students organized a journey to create a herbal garden with the goal of leading a greener and healthier life. They selected a site, cleaned it, and heard expert advice on environmental awareness. Students made signs and posters, interacted with villagers, identified useful herbs, and visited a nursery to collect plants. They designed and prepared the herbal garden, filling pots with soil and planting herbs, and inaugurated the completed garden.
SemEval-2012 Task 6: A Pilot on Semantic Textual Similaritypathsproject
This document describes the SemEval-2012 Task 6 on semantic textual similarity. The task involved measuring the semantic equivalence of sentence pairs on a scale from 0 to 5. The training data consisted of 2000 sentence pairs from existing paraphrase and machine translation datasets. The test data also had 2000 sentence pairs from these datasets as well as surprise datasets. Systems were evaluated based on their Pearson correlation with human annotations. 35 teams participated and the best systems achieved a Pearson correlation over 80%. This pilot task established semantic textual similarity as an area for further exploration.
A pilot on Semantic Textual Similaritypathsproject
This document summarizes the SemEval 2012 task on semantic textual similarity. It describes the motivation for the task as measuring similarity between text fragments on a graded scale. It then outlines the datasets used, including the MSR paraphrase corpus, MSR video corpus, WMT evaluation data, and OntoNotes word sense data. It also discusses the annotation process, which involved a pilot with authors and crowdsourcing through Mechanical Turk. The results showed most systems performed better than baselines and the best systems achieved correlations over 0.8 with human judgments.
This document describes the customer contact management services provided by Arema, including email handling, live chat support, mobile response management, social media customer support, and multi-channel customer support. Arema helps customers provide excellent support across multiple channels while typically achieving 66% savings. They use the latest technologies to increase efficiency and reduce costs without compromising on quality, being ISO 9001 certified. Arema serves customers in industries such as retail, e-commerce, financial services, healthcare, and more.
Evaluating the Use of Clustering for Automatically Organising Digital Library...pathsproject
Presentation given by Mark M. Hall, Mark Stevenson and Paul D. Clough from the Information School /Department of Computer Science, University of Sheffield, UK
24-27 September 2012
TPDL 2012, Cyprus
This document summarizes the services provided by sriServices, a UK-based firm that aims to grow sustainable, responsible, and ethical investments. It provides online tools and support to help financial advisors integrate consideration of environmental, social, and governance issues into their practices. The document highlights the growing diversity and demand in the sustainable investment field. It also provides an overview of the different approaches funds take and illustrates the variety of sustainable investing styles using a fund classification system. The goal is to help advisors better understand options and match client needs and values to appropriate fund choices.
Autodiscover flow in active directory based environment part 15#36Eyal Doron
Autodiscover flow in Active Directory based environment | Part 15#36
Reviewing the Autodiscover flow that is implemented by Outlook client on the internal network that enable the client to access the On-Premise Active Directory.
http://o365info.com/autodiscover-flow-active-directory-based-environment-part-15-of-36
Eyal Doron | o365info.com
Here are the key changes to ESEpaths described in the document:
- ESEpaths has been extended to include informativeness scores, normalized dates from <dc:date> field, vocabulary terms for tag clouds, event information, sentiment information at item level, typed related items, title and sentiment of background links.
- For easier ingestion and production, the data will now be separated into different ESEpaths files, with a single item having several ESE and ESEpaths files holding complementary information.
- A proposal for EDMpaths is presented, which would represent the enrichment done in ESEpaths but using the Europeana Data Model (EDM) format instead of ESE.
- ESE
Microsoft connectivity analyzer (mca) autodiscover troubleshooting tools pa...Eyal Doron
The document discusses the Microsoft Connectivity Analyzer (MCA) tool, which is used to test the Autodiscover process from within an organization's network or from a specific user's desktop. It provides instructions on downloading, installing, and using the MCA tool to test Autodiscover and Outlook Anywhere configurations. The MCA combines Autodiscover and Outlook Anywhere tests into a single wizard-based interface, while the Remote Connectivity Analyzer (ExRCA) allows testing them separately. The MCA has limitations compared to ExRCA, such as an inability to test Active Directory-based Autodiscover configurations.
Autodiscover flow in an exchange on premises environment non-active director...Eyal Doron
Autodiscover flow in an Exchange on-Premises environment | non-Active Directory environment| Part 2#3 | Part 27#36
Detailed description of the Autodiscover flow that is implemented between Autodiscover client and his Autodiscover Endpoint (Exchange server) in a scenario, in which the Exchange infrastructure is - Exchange on-Premises and, the Autodiscover Endpoint is located in a non-Active Directory based environment.
This is the second article, in a series of three articles.
http://o365info.com/autodiscover-flow-in-an-exchange-on-premises-environment-non-active-directory-environment-part-2-of-3-part-27-of-36
Eyal Doron | o365info.com
Generating Paths through Cultural Heritage Collections Latech2013 paperpathsproject
Generating Paths through Cultural Heritage Collections, Samuel Fernando, Paula Goodale, Paul Clough, Mark Stevenson, Mark Hall and Eneko Agirre. Paper presented at Latech 2013
Cultural heritage collections usually organise sets of items into exhibitions or guided tours. These items are often accompanied by text that describes the theme and topic of the exhibition and provides background context and details of connections with other items. The PATHS project brings the idea of guided tours to digital library collections where a tool to create virtual paths are used to assist with navigation and provide guides on particular subjects and topics. In this paper we characterise and analyse paths of items created by users of our online system.
PATHS at the Language Technology Group, Computer Science and Software Enginee...pathsproject
Presentation given by Mark Stevenson, University of Sheffield, at the Language Technology Group, Computer Science and Software Engineering Department, Melbourne University.
Lorna hughes 12 05-2013 NeDiMAH and ontology for DHlorna_hughes
This document describes NeDiMAH, a network examining the use of digital methods in the arts and humanities. NeDiMAH is funded by the European Science Foundation and chaired by Lorna Hughes. It aims to research advanced ICT methods, develop activities/publications/networking, and create a map of digital humanities in Europe and a taxonomy of methods. NeDiMAH includes 16 supporting member organizations and has working groups on topics like spatial modeling, visualization, and scholarly publishing. A key output will be a formal ontology of digital methods to provide evidence of their use and enable evaluation of digital humanities projects.
A presentation about the project given at PATCH 2011 by Paula Goodale, Paul Clough, Nigel Ford and Mark Stevenson, University of Sheffield. 13 February 2011
This document provides an overview of scholarly open access resources and services for academic excellence. It discusses the concept of open access and key initiatives that have advanced open access, including the Berlin Declaration and Budapest Open Access Initiative. Open access strategies of self-archiving in repositories and open access journals are described. Several examples of open scholarly resources are provided, including the Directory of Open Access Journals, Intute, and open access repositories that use the EPrints platform.
This document discusses several key aspects of using linked open data for cultural heritage institutions:
1. Historical context and educational content can provide insights about designers, cultures, and limitations/innovations while assisting users in finding related information.
2. Discoverability features like keyword searching, faceted searching, images, timelines and related content help users find information on the website and ensure all institution resources are utilized.
3. Collaboration with other local and international institutions increases content, diversity, and thorough dissemination of knowledge in digital archives.
Jisc, the Wellcome Library, and non UK universities and professional societies, have been working on a three-year large-scale digitisation project of more than 15 million pages of 19th century published works, resulting in the UK Medical Heritage Library, a valuable resource for the exploration of medical humanities.
I hosted a live lab day on the 26th October, with researchers and developers, at the Wellcome Library, to look at how this resource can be developed. These are the results of the discussion.
This document discusses the future role of libraries in supporting e-science. It makes three key points:
1. E-science aims to enable new forms of distributed, collaborative, multi-disciplinary and data-intensive science through the use of information technology. This will require libraries to manage large amounts of scientific data and improve access to information.
2. The future "hybrid library" will combine physical and virtual collections, providing organized access to intellectual works wherever they are located. Institutional repositories will be important for publishing data and integrating it into the digital research cycle.
3. Libraries will need skills in data management, curation and providing discovery and access tools for e-scientists. Physical library spaces may also
PATHS Demo: Exploring Digital Cultural Heritage Spaces pathsproject
Paper by Mark Hall, Eneko Agirre, Nikolaos Aletras, Runar Bergheim, Konstantinos Chandrinos, Paul Clough, Samuel Fernando, Kate Fernie, Paula Goodale, Jillian Griths, Oier Lopez de Lacalle, Andrea de Polo, Aitor Soroa and Mark Stevenson
24-27 September 2012
TPDL 2012, Cyprus
User-Centred Design to Support Exploration and Path Creation in Cultural Her...pathsproject
This document describes research on developing a prototype system to enhance user interaction with cultural heritage collections through a pathway metaphor. It involved gathering user requirements through surveys and interviews. Key findings include:
1) Existing online paths tend to be linear and static, limiting exploration, though users preferred more flexible, theme-based paths that allowed branching.
2) Interviews found the path metaphor could represent search histories, journeys of discovery, linked metadata, guides into collections, routes through collections, and more.
3) An interaction model was developed involving consuming, collecting, creating and communicating about paths to support exploration, learning and engagement.
4) The prototype aims to integrate path creation, use and sharing to better support
This document summarizes a workshop on Explorations in the Digital Humanities that will take place from September 6-9, 2016 in Lisbon, Portugal. The workshop consists of 4 modules led by international scholars on topics like network analysis, spatial visualization, augmenting historical data, and reading historical maps. Each module will include a presentation, discussion of participant research projects, and hands-on work with digital tools. The workshop aims to provide practical guidance to master's, PhD, and postdoctoral researchers on applying digital methods and tools to their humanities and social science projects. A maximum of 10 participants can enroll in each of the 1-4 day modules, with costs of €15-50 depending on the number attended.
The Future of Finding: Resource Discovery @ The University of OxfordMegan Hurst
The report is the culmination of a one-year multi-strand research project, and examines how users of the museums and libraries at the University of Oxford find the information they need (known as “resource discovery”), current practices among other institutions, and trends and possibilities for resource discovery in the future.
Athenaeum21 led the end-user research and needs assessment portion of the project, and then led the synthesis and analysis of the data across all of the research strands, making the recommendations and writing the final report. The report defines the resource discovery strategy for the University for the next 5 years.
The Future of Finding: Resource Discovery @ The University of OxfordChristine Madsen
The report is the culmination of a one-year multi-strand research project, and examines how users of the museums and libraries at the University of Oxford find the information they need (known as “resource discovery”), current practices among other institutions, and trends and possibilities for resource discovery in the future.
Athenaeum21 led the end-user research and needs assessment portion of the project, and then led the synthesis and analysis of the data across all of the research strands, making the recommendations and writing the final report. The report defines the resource discovery strategy for the University for the next 5 years.
Articulo
Journal of Computing; vol. 2, no. 5
sers of Institutional Repositories and Digital Libraries are known by their needs for very specific information about one or more subjects. To characterize users profiles and offer them new documents and resources is one of the main challenges of today's libraries. In this paper, a Selective Dissemination of Information service is described, which proposes an Ontology-based Context Aware system for identifying user's context (research subjects, work team, areas of interest). This system enables librarians to broaden users profiles beyond the information that users have introduced by hand (such as institution, age and language). The system requires a context retrieval layer to capture user information and behavior, and an inference engine to support context inference from many information sources (selected documents and users' queries).
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PATHS: Personalised Access to Cultural Heritage Spaces
1. PATHS: Personalised Access To cultural Heritage
Spaces
Eneko Agirre, Oier Lopez de Lacalle
University of the Basque Country
{e.agirre,oier.lopezdelacalle}@ehu.es
Paul Clough, Mark Stevenson
University of Sheffield
p.d.clough@sheffield.ac.uk M.Stevenson@dcs.shef.ac.uk
Abstract. This paper describes a European project called PATHS (Personalized
Access To cultural Heritage Spaces) that aims to support information exploration
and discovery through digital cultural heritage collections. Significant amounts of
cultural heritage material are now available through online digital library portals,
wich can also be overwhelming for many users who are provided with little or no
guidance on how to find and interpret this information. The PATHS project will
create a system that acts as an interactive personalised tour guide through existing
digital library collections. The system will offer suggestions about items to look
at and assist in their interpretation.
1 Introduction
Content and users are setting an exciting agenda for innovation in digital libraries.
Growing quantities of digital content and information are becoming available and are
being produced in increasingly sophisticated forms. In todays society both individu-
als and organisations are confronted with growing quantities of content that needs to
be made accessible and usable. This requires new services to enable people to create,
explore and share content, and personalise their experiences of digital libraries. The suc-
cess of the European Digital Library initiative depends in part on the ability to unlock
its users abilities to access, manipulate, use and share cultural heritage resources.
Significant amounts of cultural heritage material are now available through online
digital library portals. However, this vast amount of cultural heritage material can also
be overwhelming for many users who are provided with little or no guidance on how
to find and interpret this information. Potentially useful and relevant content is hidden
from the users who are typically offered simple keyword-based searching functional-
ity as the entry point into a cultural heritage collection. The situation is very differ-
ent within traditional mechanisms for viewing cultural heritage (e.g. museums) where
items are organized thematically and users guided through the collection. Users of cul-
tural heritage portals have diverse information needs and exhibit highly individualistic
information seeking behaviours (e.g. information encountering and foraging) which are
not well supported in standard search interfaces. Recent trends in information access
services have recognized the necessity of providing support for more exploratory and
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serendipitous search behaviours if services are to be effective in helping users with
discovering and assimilating knowledge [3, 5, 4].
The PATHS project suggests the metaphor of paths through a collection as a power-
ful and flexible model for navigation that can enhance the users experience of cultural
heritage collections and support them in their learning and information seeking activi-
ties. As a result will provide users with innovative ways to access and utilise the contents
of digital libraries that enrich their experiences of these resources. The system will make
user-specific recommendations about items of potential interest as individuals navigate
through the collection. The user will be offered links to information both within and
outside the collection that provide contextual and background information, individually
tailored to each user and their context. Users can construct their own paths (independent
paths) which can be saved for future reference, edited or shared with other users. These
paths will be more than a simple list of items in a collection that the user has visited;
they will also contain information about the links between the items, details of others
items connected to them and connections to information both within and outside the
collection that provides context. Groups of users can work collectively to create paths
(collaborative paths), adding new routes of discovery and annotations that can build
upon the contributions made by others. Users can also follow pre-defined paths (guided
paths) created by domain experts, such as scholars or teachers. Guided paths provide an
easily accessible entry point to the collection that can be either followed in their entirety
or left at any point to create an independent path. Guided paths can be based around any
theme, for example artist and media (paintings by Picasso), historic periods (the Cold
War), places (Venice), famous people (Muhammed Ali), emotions (happiness), events
(the World Cup) or any other topic (e.g. Europe, food).
PATHS will work directly with leading cultural heritage initiatives to advance un-
derstanding of user requirements and the research objectives of the project:
– Alinari 24 ORE SpA. The Alinari Archives hold a collection of 5,500,000 pho-
tographs which is growing at a rate of about 30,000 images each year.
– Europeana (http://www.europeana.eu/) is the prototype website of the European
digital library. Europeana is incorporating millions of digitised items from Eu-
rope’s archives, museums, libraries and audio visual collections and providing ac-
cess through a single portal.
2 Objectives
The PATHS project will take a user-centred approach to development by bringing users
into the research cycle from the beginning of the project, gathering their input at all
stages in the development on how it can help to meet their needs and feedback on
the functionality as prototypes are field-tested. The PATHS project consists of several
separate, but connected, packages of work, including the following:
– Gathering user requirements and creating functional specifications from a broad
range of users including those belonging to different groups, e.g. students, family
historians and photographers and of different types, e.g. learning styles and needs
from Cultural Heritage collections. These requirements will be used to develop
3. PATHS: Personalised Access To cultural Heritage Spaces 3
a functional specification for the systems developed during the project. These re-
quirements will build upon those identified in previous work for cultural heritage
information access systems [6, 2].
– Processing cultural heritage content and enriching it through identifying con-
nections between items within a collection and complementing connections with
existing relations and providing links to material both within and external to the
collection that provides background information (e.g. to Wikipedia).
– Designing effective user interfaces through which users will interact with the
PATHS system. These interfaces will provide users with personalised navigation
through Cultural Heritage collections that is enriched with the additional informa-
tion added through processing the digital content. The user interface will allow
users to follow pathways created by other users and to share their own. This will
build on previous work on personalisation in museums and digital libraries [7, 1].
– Designing evaluation methodologies and conducting of field trials to assess the
performance (effectiveness, efficiency and satisfaction) of the systems implemented
in PATHS in realistic scenarios. Evaluation will culminate in field trials in end-
user scenarios. Particular focus will be on evaluating users search sessions and the
value of paths generated by the user. Also, focusing on the evaluation of browsing
techniques will form part of this research.
The vision is to build a system that:
– Exploits existing knowledge of users to optimise the effectiveness of interacting
with digital heritage resources.
– Enables the testing and refinement of such knowledge.
– Enables new knowledge to be discovered.
This system will provide personalized access to resources by adapting suggested
routes to the personalized requirements of individual users and groups. It will seek to:
– Respond to users in a cognitively ergonomic way i.e. by matching navigation to
a learners preferred style and minimising any mismatch and consequent additional
cognitive processing load. In this way, the learner will find exactly what s/he wants
with the least effort. Navigation entails travelling the shortest path between starting
point and desired end point.
– Challenge and stretch the user by via controlled and constructive mismatching. In
this way, learners may develop increasing autonomy and versatility i.e. the abil-
ity autonomously to thrive in information environments not necessarily matched to
their own preferred style. PATHS will also explore the extent to which users may
be encouraged and helped to engage in cognitive processing in which they are less
strong. For example, the extreme divergent thinker may usefully be encouraged (in
certain learning circumstances) not to underplay complementary convergent pro-
cessing. Cognitive research suggests that s/he may, without such complementary
processing, exhibit over-generalisation and lack of grasp of detail. Conversely, the
strong convergent thinker may be encouraged to explore and think more divergently
(creatively) to avoid fragmented learning and failing to see the wood for the trees.
PATHS will explore the potential of suggesting sub-optimal, but constructive paths
to users.
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3 Conclusions
The PATHS project aims to investigate and implement pathways in a naturalistic setting
for a range of users and groups that regularly make use of cultural heritage information.
A large-scale operational system will developed for navigating on-line cultural heritage
collections in a more effective manner than current searching functionalities. Pathways
will be used to guide and assist individuals and user communities with information dis-
covery and exploration within cultural heritage information spaces for learning and in-
formation seeking activities. This will support multiple information seeking behaviours
and enhance the users information access experience of digital library resources.
PATHS will focus on using content from Europeana. The breadth and depth of mate-
rial provides a challenging data source, together with Europeanas status as a centralised
portal for European cultural heritage material. Experimenting with user-adaptivity in
this domain will benefit ongoing work on providing semantic enrichment to Europeana
content and showcase the kinds of technologies which would make Europeana more
accessible to a wider range of users and communities. However, PATHS will also show
the generalisability of technologies developed in the project in developing prototype
systems for content from Alinari. Contributions made by PATHS will be expected to
benefit scholars and citizens alike in providing personalised information access.
4 Acknowledgements
The research leading to these results has received funding from the European Com-
munity’s Seventh Framework Programme (FP7/2007-2013) under grant agreement n
270082. We acknowledge the contribution of all project partners involved in PATHS
(see: http://www.paths- project.eu).
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